Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children by Angela J Hanscom (2019). Written by an Occupational Therapist who has taken OT therapy outside.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Teaching Kids to Love the Earth: Sharing a Sense of Wonder: 186 Outdoor Activities by Marina Lachecki Herman, Joseph F. Passineau, Ann L. Schimpf and Paul Trener



















Amber Scherkenbach is the owner and operator of Momma Earth, LLC providing nature-based occupational therapy services & enrichment programs to children and their families from birth to 6 years. She has vast experience working with people across the lifespan and a skilled understanding of sensory processing skills, motor development, and nervous system regulation. She offers occupational therapy evaluations, direct occupational services and groups outside. Sessions focus on child-led, empowering activities and goal areas that the family has agreed are an area of priority. Sessions take place within the community, in nature and around the natural green spaces of a client's home. mommaearthmn.com
Occupational Therapy (OT) for kids. Nature Kids Therapy provides therapy services to support caregivers, autistic and neurodivergent children, sensory processing, and/or motor coordination.
Classes and many free DIY activities to help families learn and play together outside.
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We have some wonderful new nature-based therapists and graduate clinical interns who have joined us recently and have immediate openings for clients of all ages!
In addition, Therapist Wensday Berman has completed EMDR training and has a few openings for clients seeking EMDR.
Please feel free to fill out our practice contact form or reach out directly to a therapist who you think might be a good fit. We look forward to connecting with you!
We have one more CEU workshop for therapists this Fall, on Friday October 23 at Richardson Nature Center. Check in out here!