Walk With Your Wolf

Jonathan Hoban challenges us to use nature as a setting for reconsidering our lives and our stresses. He asks us to ‘walk alongside our difficulties’ giving ourselves the physical and mental space to look at ourselves anew and to decide what we really need. For that commute to work, or indeed for that break on the park bench, I commend his book.

Combining therapy with nature and activity isn’t new. In the late 1900s, Sigmund Freud walked with certain of his patients around the Ringstrasse, Vienna’s grand, tree-lined boulevard. But what if you have no therapist or kindred spirit to accompany you? Jonathan Hoban’s original, inspiring and powerful book fills the gap. Deftly blending science, his own narrative and his experience as a therapist, he is at our side as we find a way of engaging with and being healed by nature. Like the wolf in the book’s title, we can reconnect with our own elemental lupine instincts which are so often repressed in our stressful and artificial world - both a wolf’s wildness as well as its sociability and need to be part of a pack. Follow in Hoban’s easy to apply footsteps and you will never walk alone again.

Jonathan Hoban is an Integrative Psychotherapist and Founding Director of central London practice Creative Counselling London Ltd. Born in Wimbledon in 1975, Jonathan spent his formative years walking with family and friends in the green spaces of Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park.

Jonathan trained to be a counsellor after he received personal therapy and reaped the benefits from it. His gratitude arising from the process led him to want to help others in the same way mental health professionals had guided and helped him. He has since developed techniques, philosophies and methods to help clients reconnect with their sense of power, confidence and intuition.

Jonathan developed the concept of what he and others refer to as ‘Walking Therapy’ as an alternative method of therapy, and then went on to launch his ‘Walking Therapy London’ practice in 2014. His work has been featured in print, digital, and broadcast media in outlets including the BBC London News, The Telegraph, The Independent, Readers’ Digest, Stylist Magazine, Stella Magazine, You Magazine, The Daily Mail, Women’s Health, BACP Therapy Today Magazine, and Contemporary Psychotherapy.