Healing Journeys into the Depths
Somatic Therapy in the Blue Mountains and Online
Welcome, traveller
My name is Rob Engels. I'm a PACFA-certified Somatic Psychotherapist and Ecotherapist based in the Blue Mountains of Australia.
My work centres on helping people reconnect with the intelligence of the body and the living Earth — restoring a sense of belonging, wholeness, and inner freedom.
1:1 Somatic Psychotherapy & Mentoring
Through Wild Reverence I offer private somatic psychotherapy and nature-based mentoring — slow, careful work that goes beyond the surface layer of stories and explanations.
Together we move into a direct, embodied understanding of the patterns held in your nervous system — gently uncovering and resolving the deeper roots of suffering, and allowing new freedom, authenticity, and vitality to emerge.
I draw on somatic psychotherapy, Inner Relationship Focusing, and trauma-informed awareness practices, always guided by the pace of true healing rather than the pressure to fix or perform.
Ancient Ground
My nature-based group programs, retreats, and professional trainings now live within Ancient Ground — a nature-based mystery school and learning community that I founded, devoted to embodied belonging, cultural repair, and sacred relationship with the more-than-human world.
Ancient Ground offers somatic ecotherapy training, vision fasts and rites of passage, Four Shields retreats, and nature-based mentoring — pathways for those ready to deepen their relationship with body, psyche, and Earth.
If you’re looking for trainings, retreats, or nature-based programs, please visit:
Do you want to go deeper in your journey of healing and discovery?
Many of my clients have felt frustrated by traditional talk therapy or surface-level practises that do not seem to get to the heart of the issues that trouble them.
With qualifications in both Holistic Psychotherapy, which embraces the whole person, and specialist Somatic Therapies, which go deep into the body, I offer approaches that bridge mind, body, and soul. Offering a more direct and three dimensional path to healing.
Visit the Therapy link at the top of the page to explore the different 1:1 therapeutic services I offer.
Acknowledgement of Country
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work, breathe and wander, the Dharug, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri people. I recognise their continued connection to the land and waters, and acknowledge that they never ceded sovereignty. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging, to the lineage of nature-based wisdom they steward and to the dreaming they embody.
