Chaira Santin - Published Works
Chiara passionate about promoting EcoTherapy and in 2024 published her first book with Everything is Connected Press. The book is about doing therapy in Nature, with Nature acting as your 'co-therapist' It offers an invitation to explore new landscapes of nature-based thinking and practice.
It is a professional development book for people working in the health and social care professions as psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, doctors, counsellors, community and support workers. It shares stories from Chiara's own relationships with nature. It includes poems offering a method of reflection and develes into the relationship between our personal and professional selves.
The book is available in both Kindle and paperback editions.
Whether you are looking for theory, models, practice examples, personal reflections, creative activities, advice or guidance - you will find it all here beautifully presented and shared with generosity of spirit. What a gift.
(Dr Leah Salter, Centre for Systemic Studies, Wales, University of Bedfordshire UK, Murmations Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice)
Chiara's book invites us to live and practice differently, imagining ourselves beyond the anthropocene.
(Lorna Edwards Independant Systemic Psychotherapist Cymru/Wales)
Co-editor of Context, December 2025 on Ecotherapy, Environment, dystopian futures.
I am part of a small international group of academics and clinicians aiming to develop and promote ecosystemic thinking and practices within the field of systemic and family psychotherapy and beyond.
Given my expertise in developing ecosystemic therapy, I have been asked to co-edit a special issue with Dr. Hugh Palmer, esteem systemic colleague. It has been published in December 2025 featuring a wide range of articles and poetry covering eco-relational practice, outdoor group supervision, relational healing through nature, rewilding, ecosystem and climate emergency, meditation, nature supported therapy and more… Contributors include Hugh Palmer, Chiara Fortina Santin, Roger Duncan, Imelda McCarthy, Leah Salter, Joanne Hanrahan, charlie chapman, Paul Andrews, Chloe Constable, Jenny Cove, Rob Moore, Sigurd Reimers, Joanna Law, and Sophie Hicks.
Peer reviewed Journal Contribution - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (November 2025)
Chiara has also published an article on ecotherapy and climate change i.e. Letter to the Alpine Glaciers and Ecosystemic Therapy. Abstract:
Through a love letter to the glaciers that have shaped the author's inner landscape as a child, this article shares reflections on the ecological context of climate change, our relationship with the more-than- human world and the implications for ecosystemic therapy. This paper will argue that embracing ecological thinking will lead to redefining therapy as dual hospitality where nature becomes the host and co-therapist, whereas clients and therapists become co-explorers of inner and outer landscapes. Nature, as a diffractive mirror, will reflect the tight link between our sense of well-being, mental health and our sense of belonging to Mother Earth. This process of rewilding our personal and professional lives will contribute to restoring our shared identity as earth dwellers and activate our commitment to care for the planet. This, in turn, will lead to becoming actively engaged in imagin-action, that is, as systemic therapists/activists imagine and create new landscapes of mental health services rooted in social justice and ecological change.
You can download it here, or click on the image.
