Debbie Strum

Nature as a Growth-Fostering Relationship: Integrating the Five Good Things and Ecological Systems Theory to Support Youth Wellbeing

Children and adolescents are navigating unprecedented levels of stress, disconnection, and ecological anxiety, including growing distress related to climate change and the rapid decline of meaningful contact with the natural world. Drawing from Relational–Cultural Theory and Bron...

The Places We Carry: Creative Counseling Through the Lens of Place and Belonging

Environmental disruption, displacement, and shifting cultural landscapes increasingly shape clients’ experiences of identity, belonging, and emotional distress. Although environmental psychology has articulated constructs such as sense of place, place attachment, and place identi...