Liberation through
Healing & Nature
ECOSOUL CONSULTING
Health Equity for Community Care — where public health, ecotherapy, and healing justice converge.
20+
Years of Public Health Leadership
3+
Active Institutional Collaborations
1
Signature Framework: Liberation Ecotherapy
FOUNDER & LEAD STRATEGIST
J. Phoenix Smith, MSW
A public health leader and strategist with 20 years of experience supporting healthcare systems, government agencies, universities, and community-based organizations. Her work focuses on health equity, chronic illness, mental health, HIV and sexual health, and community- and healing-centered approaches to care.
Phoenix is the creator of Liberation Ecotherapy® — a healing justice framework exploring the relationship between nature, mental health, collective wellbeing, and social justice. She has been featured nationally for her work at the intersection of public health, ecotherapy, and community care.
| “Reconnecting people, place, and wellbeing.”
What We Do
AREAS OF WORK
Health Equity Strategy
Designing evidence-informed frameworks that center communities most impacted by systemic health disparities.
Mental Health & Belonging Research
Exploring the intersections of identity, place, and psychological wellbeing through a healing justice lens.
Community-Engaged Facilitation
Convening spaces of trust, dialogue, and collective healing across organizations and communities.
Proposal Development & Strategic Planning
Translating community vision into funded, actionable public health initiatives.
HIV & Chronic Illness Initiatives
Developing culturally grounded programs that center dignity, access, and care for those navigating complex health journeys.
Nature-Informed Wellbeing Programs
Integrating Liberation Ecotherapy® principles into public health and community care design.
OUR APPROACH
Our approach integrates public health strategy, facilitation, relational healing, and culturally grounded approaches to community care. We partner with organizations to design, facilitate, and strengthen community-based initiatives that improve engagement, expand access, and support healing justice.
Evidence-Informed Practice
Healing-Centered Engagement
Social & Racial Justice
"We help organizations apply evidence-informed, healing-centered strategies that reconnect people, place, and wellbeing."
SIGNATURE FRAMEWORK
Liberation Ecotherapy®
A healing justice framework exploring the relationship between nature, mental health, collective wellbeing, and social justice — featured nationally at the intersection of public health, ecotherapy, and community care.
Nature as Healer
Reconnecting communities to the natural world as a site of restoration and belonging.
Community as Medicine
Reconnecting communities to the natural world as a site of restoration and belonging.
Justice as Foundation
Addressing root causes of health disparities through a social justice framework.
CURRENT & RECENT COLLABORATIONS
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Sutter Health
East Bay HIV Update
We welcome opportunities for collaboration, facilitation, consulting, and community-engaged health equity initiatives.
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