MENTAL HEALTH CARE, GROUNDED IN NATURE AND HUMAN CONNECTION
Therapy on the Sunshine Coast that knows when to step outside.
Evidence-based clinical care that combines movement, outdoor environments, and genuine connection. Designed to feel calmer, more spacious, and more like care that really fits.
Tides & Trees is a mental health practice on the Sunshine Coast that combines evidence-based clinical care with the grounding effect of nature, movement, and genuine human connection.
Sessions can happen in a clinic, outdoors, or both, depending on what you need. The work is unhurried and flexible, shaped around your story, your goals, and your pace. Whether you're navigating a diagnosis, working through something long-standing, or simply looking for a different way of being supported, you'll be met where you are.
You might be navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, grief, burnout, or a season of life you cannot quite name.
You might be drawn to nature, to personal growth, to meaningful experiences. Someone who thinks more clearly when they're moving. Someone who has always felt most themselves outside. Someone who has been told to slow down and never quite known how.
You're looking for care that feels both clinically sound and genuinely human. You don't need to have it all figured out before you reach out. You just need to want something different.
How It Helps
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Time in nature, without having to organise it yourself. Spending time outdoors while moving your body is one of the most reliable ways to feel better. It's also one of the hardest things to do alone when you're struggling. You show up, we walk.
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Care shaped around your life. A thorough assessment to begin, then a plan that adjusts as you do. No two paths through this look the same.
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Less alone in the work. Whether you choose 1-on-1 therapy or a small group walking a similar path, connection itself becomes part of the work.
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Time enough to feel heard. Initial sessions are 90 minutes. Follow-ups are spacious by design. Nothing about this is rushed.
What We Offer
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Nature Connection Group
Our eight-week program. Small cohorts of up to ten people, weekly outdoor sessions on the Sunshine Coast. The most accessible way to begin. Cohorts open periodically and tend to fill quickly.
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Walk & Talk / Nature-Based Therapy
Individual therapy that moves with you, in natural environments on the Sunshine Coast.
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Traditional Room-Based Sessions
Private clinic-based appointments. Same unhurried care, indoors when that suits you better.
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Telehealth
Secure video sessions for clients across Australia. Available for therapy and supervision.
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Clinical Supervision
For clinicians and helping professionals. Standard clinical supervision and supervision for those moving their work outdoors.
Tides & Trees is led by Steph Picanso, a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over fourteen years of clinical experience across hospitals, community mental health, and crisis services. Endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia through AHPRA, the highest independent clinical qualification in mental health nursing in Australia.
That means no GP referral needed, Medicare rebates available with no annual cap on sessions, and a clinician who can assess, prescribe where clinically indicated, and walk alongside you in the work.
