Wilderness Rites

About

Wilderness Rites, founded and directed by Anne Stine, MA, MFT, operates from Ashland, Oregon, offering wilderness vision quests, rites-of-passage ceremonies, earth-based healing practices, and licensed ecotherapy services. Stine is a licensed marriage and family counselor in California and an ecopsychologist with over thirty years of experience integrating depth counseling with wilderness guiding. Her practice spans individual ecotherapy sessions conducted in both indoor and outdoor settings, multi-day wilderness quests in remote terrain, seminars in council practices and deep listening, and training programs for wilderness guides. The philosophical foundation of Wilderness Rites rests on ecopsychology — the field of psychology that recognizes the centrality of the human-earth relationship to psychological wellbeing. Stine's approach incorporates earth rituals, self-generated ceremony, solitude and fasting, exposure to elements, storytelling, and wisdom circles, all framed within a clinical understanding of psychological process. Her mentoring model positions the guide as midwife to the participant's clarification of what she calls the 'genuine life path,' addressing issues including self-confidence, stress, life transitions, loss, grief, addiction, relationships, and spirituality through practices that honor both psychological and ecological dimensions of healing.

Depth Orientation

Wilderness Rites operates from an explicitly ecopsychological framework, treating the human-earth relationship as foundational to psychological health. Founder Anne Stine integrates licensed clinical counseling with wilderness rites-of-passage guiding and contemplative practice, positioning the natural world as both therapeutic setting and co-therapist. Her approach draws on over thirty years of synthesizing depth counseling, earth-based ceremony, and ecopsychological theory.

Treatment Modalities

Program Details

Best for

• Life transitions
• Grief and loss
• Spiritual exploration
• Addiction recovery
• Ecopsychological healing

Notable Clinicians

• Anne Stine, MA, MFT — Founder, licensed marriage and family therapist, ecopsychologist, 30+ years wilderness guiding

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