Jenny Lopez deeply enjoys slow walks, collective breaths and music-filled group bike rides. She has ancestral roots in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, and intuitively experiences a sense of homecoming when being and spending time in Nature through Public Lands access. Jenny describes this time as grounding, restorative to her nervous system, life-giving, and a portal to free her imagination. Jenny is a social entrepreneur and founder of Rooted in Nature Therapy (RNT), a practice dedicated to offering culturally relevant and inclusive mental health care. RNT values Nature’s critical role in supporting collective healing, for patient and provider alike, as well as our next 7 generations. RNT is dedicated to those who identify with the immigrant, FirstGen and BIPOC experience and who may benefit from support healing through intergenerational trauma, early childhood attachment and inner child wounds, and the reparenting of self through community. Jenny helps adult survivors of childhood abuse reconnect to their authentic selves by reclaiming their lives, building trust with self/others, and feeling “felt, heard and seen” by their chosen family/community. Jenny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and state-endorsed Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant. Jenny is co-creator for the Nurture in Nature Project and Board Member for the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project. She is a proud graduate of the Nature for All Leadership Academy, and currently volunteers as an Outings Leader for Sierra Club’s Inspiring Connections Outdoors and the Every Kid Outdoors Program with the National Park Service.