Integrative Eco Art Therapy (IEAT) is a humanistic and eco-centric approach to restoring and cultivating healthy attachments between humans and the natural world. IEAT employs the frameworks of art therapy, eco art therapy, integrative trauma-informed psychology, and the sciences, to provide individually centered healing that is informed by the principles of Interbeing, reciprocity, and cooperation. This article presents both a theoretical framework for IEAT and an in-depth case study of IEAT with a young adult with complex trauma and maladaptive daydreaming disorder. A distinct link was observed between the creation of art in or with Nature within an IEAT framework, and the improvement of this individual’s executive functioning, integration of traumatic experience, and establishment of more secure attachments. Through integrative didactic engagement, experientially gained insight, artmaking in which Nature serves as metaphor, material, or setting, IEAT can restore and repair some of the fractured attachments humans have to themselves, other people, and the natural world. To view the paper on Ecopsychology
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