Dr. Maurie Lung is a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed marriage family therapist located in the Tampa Bay area. She is the founder of Life Adventures Counseling & Consulting (
www.LifeAdventuresCC.org), a community organization providing adventure-based mental health therapy to individuals, couples, groups, and families. She is also the director of adventure-based and nature-based graduate counseling programs at Prescott College. She has over 30 years of experience as a therapist, business owner, author, speaker, trainer, evaluator, and faculty. Her national and international work is focused on people and organizations who are interested in practice through connection with nature and experiential interventions that are grounded in trauma-informed and anti-oppressive research. She has co-authored books for mental health professionals as well as written articles about parenting (including her adventures as a mama of her 11-year-old triplets and 13-year-old son) and well-being through nature experiences that can heal our hearts and restore dignity.