Julie Brams is part of a growing movement proposing that the mental health crisis and the ecological crisis share a single root: the conditioned belief that humans are divided from Nature.

Her work — spanning 30 years of clinical practice, a Nautilus Gold Award-winning book, and the Earth-centered learning community she co-founded — offers psychology a missing foundation rather than a new specialty. Rerooting, she argues, cannot be transmitted human to human. It requires direct, embodied relationship with the more-than-human world — and that changes everything about how we practice.

This is not invention. Indigenous peoples and earth-connected cultures around the world have never lost this way of being. At this moment in the Anthropocene, she brings to western clinicians, educators, and general audiences alike a rare and urgent invitation: not to add Nature to the menu, but to remember the ground we are always standing on.