Linda Buzzell, LMFT, has been a psychotherapist for more than 40 years and has specialized in ecopsychology and ecotherapy since 2000. She and Craig Chalquist edited the Sierra Club Books anthology Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind, a core text in clinical ecopsychology. She is a member of the editorial board of Ecopsychology, the peer-reviewed journal of the field.

Ms. Buzzell is adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she teaches ecopsychology and ecotherapy. She was a featured presenter with Joanna Macy at Holos Institute’s 2017 Ecopsychology Conference in Petaluma, CA, and at the 2014 Ecotherapy Symposium at the University of Brighton in the UK. In 2002 she founded The International Association for Ecotherapy and edited its journal, Ecotherapy News, for many years. She blogged on ecopsychology and ecotherapy for 7 years for The Huffington Post and is co-admin of the 10,500+ member Facebook group “Ecopsychology.”

Together with Carol Koziol, Ms. Buzzell co-hosts the Canadian Ecopsychology Network’s video interview series Ecopsychology Voices, which features conversations with a variety of ecopsychology luminaries from around the world. Guests have included ecotherapist Mary-Jayne Rust, Canadian Andy Fisher, Norwegian Per Espen Stoknes, plus Americans Craig Chalquist, Carolyn Finney, Lori Pye, Susan Griffin, Jerome Bernstein, Betsy Perluss, and many others.

In 2006, Ms. Buzzell received her permaculture design certificate and, with her husband Larry Saltzman, has created a 1/3 acre backyard food forest around her home that serves as her ecotherapy office.