About — Ecoterapia

About Ecoterapia.

Our Mission.

As we experience climate catastrophe, mass extinction of species and a wide epidemic of depression and loneliness with its roots in nature deficit disorder, Ecoterapia’s mission is to facilitate nature reconnection for the reciprocal healing of both humans and nature. As Baba Dioum once said, “We won’t save places we don’t love, we can’t love places we don’t know, and we can’t know places we haven’t learned.” This is why Ecoterapia’s focus is to help humans re-connect with inner and outer nature, in order to restore our love for earth, remember our wholeness, and return back to a sacred way of relating with the more-than-human world, community and Self.

Our offerings are here to help you unearth your psyche upon the land in order to see yourself reflected in the mirror of nature, connect with your own inner realm, the natural world and other humans bent on shaping the world in their own unique ways.

About Reet.

Reet (pronounced Rhett) Rannik Carías (she/they/ella) is a Latinx wilderness guide, song carrier, yoga student and teacher, creative writer, and psychotherapist-in-training devoted to practices of nature-reconnection for the reciprocal healing of both humans and the wild.

Born and raised in the Dominican Republic and carrying Estonian, Colombian, Dominican, and Celtic Irish roots, Reet’s relationship with the living world has been shaped by both tropical waters and desert landscapes. Their path deepened while living nomadically as a wilderness therapy guide working with at-risk youth in the deserts of the Yavapai and Apache peoples, where the land itself became a teacher. The saguaro cacti, sotol yucca, cottonwoods, nopales, creosote, and the waters of the Verde River formed part of their ecological initiation—inviting a deepening relationship with place, humility, and belonging within the more-than-human world.

Reet holds a master’s degree in Transpersonal Ecopsychology from Naropa University and has continued weaving this body of work through wilderness guiding, rites of passage work, and nature-based practices that invite people into meaningful relationship with the Earth.

They are the hearth behind Ecoterapia, a practice devoted to reconnecting inner and outer nature through ritual, song, creative expression, and time on the land. Drawing inspiration from ecopsychology, buddhism, animism, Gestalt practice, deep listening, and earth-honoring traditions, Reet holds spaces that invite participants to remember themselves as human animals in living relationship with the Earth.

Rooted in the archetype of the wounded healer and guided by earth wisdom, Reet’s work seeks to create spaces where personal healing and ecological belonging can unfold together.

in 2025 Reet started her practicum at Church Street Integral Counseling Center where she holds space for clients one-on-one, supervised by Debbie Stone, Vicky Spiers, Gieve Patel and Srini Katragadda.
Reet joins the Earthways team as a Wilderness Guide.

EarthWays is an organization focused on restoring our relationship with the natural world, based in the Bay Area of Northern California.
May 3 - 5, 2024 Wild Love: The Heart Responds with Guide Cynthia Eisho Morrow
August 9 - 11, 2024 Earth Body Prayer: A Council of All Beings for Women with Guide Cynthia Eisho Morrow
September 28, 2024 Wisdom of Our Ancestors with Guide Cynthia Eisho Morrow and O. Andrew Schreiber

May 23-26 (2025) The Middle Passage - Three Seasons of Storytelling with Scott Eberle and Taylor Meehan
June 22, 2025, The Wild Twin with Guide Cynthia Eisho Morrow
Reet starts her journey studying Integral Counseling Psychology at California Institute for Integral Studies Fall 2023.
Co-facilitator for the Embodied Earth Retreat in the Methow Valley, Washington May 11 - 15th, 2023.
Taught yoga, led Nature-Reconnection rituals, taught friction-fire making and facilitated council.
Psychology of Wilderness Experience is an Intensive course for Naropa University’s M.A. program in Ecopsychology. It consists of a wilderness rite of passage ceremony with a three-day fasting solo in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
June 12-20, 2023 with Tina Fields Professor Emeritx in the Ecopsychology M.A. program at Naropa University, co-guide Shea HummingBear Armstrong and apprentice guide, camp manager and hearth tender Reet Rannik. Chimera Springs Ranch, Colorado.
June 11-19, 2022 with Tina Fields, co-guide Shea HummingBear Armstrong and apprentice guide, camp manager and hearth tender Reet Rannik. Chimera Springs Ranch, Colorado.
July 25-August 2, 2022 with Tina Fields, co-guide Brooks Barron and and apprentice guide, camp manager and hearth tender, Reet Rannik. Chimera Springs Ranch, Colorado.
Wilderness Therapy Guide and Ecopsychologist for the Anasazi Foundation. ANASAZI is a therapeutic outdoor behavioral treatment healthcare program and wilderness rehab for adolescents ages 12-17 based in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.
Her role as a wilderness guide was to navigate groups of teenagers through the wilderness with maps, coordinates, and a heart compass fine-tuned to their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual needs while at the same time create an environment for change and transformation.
Reet taught Young Walkers how to thrive in the desert by being in relationship with the plants in their environment, make friction fire, carve spoons and other wilderness survival skills including animal tracking, shelter building, plant identification, water purification, backcountry cooking, wilderness first aid, wilderness navigation, as well as lead discussions related to the ANASAZI curriculum and facilitate council or Fire Circles.
Her job as an Ecopsychologist was to encourage folks to relate and engage with the natural world in soul-centric and heart-centered way. Reet led yoga classes between the trees, meditation, song circles and encouraged a daily gratitude practice.
Reet receives her Master’s in Transpersonal Ecopsychology from Naropa University May 2021.