Outdoor Coaching Group
Unlock Your Potential Through Nature
In a world that’s often busy and overwhelming, finding clarity and creative solutions can seem elusive. At Outdoor Coaching Group, we take a different approach. By blending outdoor experiences with mindful coaching, we guide you through nature’s calming and invigorating power, helping you rediscover focus, creativity, and purpose.
Why Nature?
When you step outside, away from distractions, you open up space to think more clearly. Whether it's through a guided hike, a reflective bike ride through the forest, or simply breathing in the fresh mountain air, you'll tap into new perspectives and unlock ideas that were once clouded by the noise of everyday life.
Discover how nature can be your guide to unlocking your fullest potential. Together, we’ll create the space for clarity, creativity, and transformative growth.
"We work with people experiencing a broad range of issues including anxiety, depression, stress, eating disorders, addiction, transitions, life cycle challenges, and unresolved trauma. All genders, backgrounds and identities are welcome here."
Team at OCG
Licensed Professional Counselors
Personal Clarity Sessions
One-on-one coaching paired with outdoor activities tailored to your pace, helping you work through personal or professional challenges.
Creative Breakthroughs
Nature-inspired exercises designed to awaken your creative mind and generate innovative ideas.
Mindful Leadership Retreats
Group experiences that foster deeper insights, better decision-making, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Our Coaching Collective
We are a team of licensed professionals who guide clients through growth and transformation using outdoor experiences as a powerful backdrop. With backgrounds in counseling psychology, somatic practices, and creative expression, we meet individuals and groups throughout the Roaring Fork Valley—including Carbondale—for coaching sessions that take place on trails, rivers, and open spaces.
Our work incorporates evidence-based tools like EMDR, meditation, movement, metaphor, and nature-based reflection. Every session is a chance to engage with the natural world as a mirror for your inner landscape—supporting real, lasting change.
Our approach is collaborative, grounded, and often filled with laughter. We believe there is no one right path to well-being—and that meaningful transformation happens when you're invited to be fully yourself, outside the walls of a traditional office.
Live life to your fullest.
Coaching & Mentoring
Not everyone wants to dive into the past—but that doesn’t mean you have to go it alone. Our team offers supportive, strengths-based coaching and mentoring for those seeking clarity, motivation, skill-building, or simply a fresh perspective. Whether you’re working toward a specific goal or just need someone to walk alongside you (literally and figuratively), we’re here for it.
We are experienced outdoor professionals—mountain bike coaches, wilderness guides, and certified first responders—who bring confidence, compassion, and creativity to every session. From mountain trails to riverside paths, from snow-covered woods to quiet parks, we use the natural world as both setting and catalyst for growth.
Sessions focus on present-moment awareness and future visioning. Unlike traditional counseling, our work together is goal-oriented and action-based. And because many of us are also licensed mental health professionals, we’re trained to recognize when deeper issues arise—and can guide you toward the right support if needed.
Intentional Support for Real Change
We know that reaching out for support isn’t always easy. That’s why we meet you with respect, flexibility, and a deep belief in your capacity to grow. Our mission is to help you reconnect with your inner strength, expand your ability to choose what serves you, and take meaningful steps toward the life you want.
As a collective, we don’t follow a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we draw from a wide range of experience, training, and modalities—tailoring each session to your unique needs, goals, and preferences.
Some clients meet us on the trail, others prefer a quiet spot in the park, and many choose virtual sessions. Whether outdoors or online, we’ll work collaboratively to create a plan that supports your healing and momentum—on your terms, in your time.
Emotional Wellness in Motion
Are overwhelming emotions keeping you from living the full, healthy life you long for? Stress, anxiety, grief, frustration, shame, and depression—when left unchecked—can impact not only our peace of mind but our physical health, relationships, and ability to feel grounded. Whether you’re navigating loss, burnout, unhealthy patterns, self-doubt, or just feeling untethered, you’re not alone—and there is a path forward.
We are a team of dedicated professionals who help individuals uncover the unconscious beliefs and emotional patterns that hold them back. Our work is centered on building awareness, expanding choice, and supporting clients in translating insight into sustainable action.
Our approach is integrative and personalized—drawing from diverse modalities and years of collective experience. We tailor each session to meet your specific needs, goals, and comfort level.
You can meet with us in a traditional office, virtually, or outdoors—on a trail, in a park, or wherever nature offers space for reflection and movement. However we meet, our goal is the same: to support the whole of who you are and help you move toward greater clarity, resilience, and wellbeing.
“I came in feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and burnt out from my job and relationships. What I found was a group of down-to-earth, deeply skilled professionals who actually listened—and tailored their approach to what I needed. One day we worked through breathwork and decision-making on a quiet ridge; another day, we talked career goals while biking. It’s therapy, coaching, and mentorship all rolled into one, and it’s changed my life.”
“Working with this team has been nothing short of transformative. I’d spent years in talk therapy but never felt fully connected until I started walking and talking with one of the coaches on a trail near my home. Something about being outside, moving my body, and having a guide beside me made things click in a new way. I feel stronger, clearer, and more grounded than I have in years.”
Rooted in Experience, Guided by Purpose
At the heart of our work is a shared purpose: to help people rediscover hope, resilience, and enthusiasm for life. As a team, we are inspired not only by our professional training, but by our lived experiences—the courage to face pain, the willingness to grow through challenge, and the belief that healing, while messy and complex, is absolutely possible.
We don’t ask our clients to go anywhere we haven’t gone ourselves. Many of us have navigated trauma, grief, addiction, and uncertainty firsthand. We know the terrain, and we’re here to walk alongside you as guides—compassionate, grounded, and real.
Our work is shaped by the natural world, meaningful relationships, spiritual practice, and transformational moments in wild places. We draw from diverse clinical and somatic training, including trauma-informed care, mindfulness-based practices, and body-oriented psychotherapy.
As a collective, we’ve worked in a wide range of settings—from inpatient psychiatric units and mobile crisis teams to schools and community-based clinics. These experiences have equipped us to offer honest, culturally humble, and direct support to people navigating life’s most overwhelming challenges.
You don’t have to face it all alone. Wherever you are, we’ll meet you there—with presence, purpose, and a belief in your ability to heal.