Emily Linders is an ecotherapist and contemplative wilderness guide. Drawing on more than 15 years of formal meditation practice and wilderness-based youth development work, she brings a nature-centered approach to psychotherapy beneath the oaks of Sonoma County.
Emily trained in residential settings at Insight Meditation Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She also completed a one-year Buddhist Chaplaincy program at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, with a focus on hospice care. For the past two decades, she has spent nearly every summer in the wilderness working as a trail worker, backcountry cook, zen student, or contemplative backing guide in the rugged backcountry of Big Sur.
Her intention is to help people deepen their sense of belonging to this earth and to one another through presence, wonder, and delight.
"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds." — Carl Rogers, A Way of Being