For the past decade, Emily Linders has managed to spend nearly every summer in the California wilderness as a trail worker and backcountry cook in Yosemite and a monk at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She brings ten years of formal meditation practice, wilderness-based youth development work, hospice work, and Buddhist chaplaincy to her work as a nature-based psychotherapist under the oaks of Sonoma County. Emily is a long-term Gestalt Awareness practitioner in the lineage of Dick Price, Christine Price, and Dorothy Charles. Emily is a NOLS certified Wilderness First Responder.