Rochelle Calvert
About
Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, licensed clinical psychologist, certified mindfulness teacher, somatic experiencing practitioner has a devoted love to share the power and healing potential of mindfulness, somatic awareness and nature. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 23 years and knows personally the transformational potential. To share the love of these healing practices she has published a book Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma.
Dr. Calvert leads courses and retreats in mindfulness, somatic experiencing and Awake in the Wild, nature-based mindfulness. She also facilitates professional trainings in mindfulness for clinicians and travels the country teaching retreats and seminars. She is the director of the Ecotherapy Program at SouthWestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a certified mindfulness teacher with the Mindfulness Teaching Institute, the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and Awake In The Wild organization.
Rochelle is the founder of New Mindful Life, which offers mindfulness, nature-based, and somatic experiencing therapies. She is also the creator and founder of the Healing with Nature- Trauma Care Practitioner Training program, started in 2025. Dr. Calvert works regularly in group settings facilitating Healing with Nature work as well as working with clients individually- bringing them into nature with the aid of Bertha Grace, a Sprinter van that serves as a mobile therapy office.
My Credentials/Expertise
Degrees attained:
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University, 2007
M.A., Experimental Psychology (Applied Behavioral Analysis and Multicultural Psychology Emphasis), Department of Psychology, California State University, Fresno, 2002
B.A., Psychology, Department of Psychology, California State University, Fresno, 1999
Training received:
Certified Mindfulness Teacher, CMT- International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) &
Mindfulness Training Institute (MTI): Mark Coleman (Spirit Rock Teacher Council) and Martin Alyward (founder of the Tapovan Dharma Community and Moulin De Chaves in South West France)
Certified Awake in the Wild Mindfulness Teacher- AITW facilitator, Awake in the Wild training, Mark Coleman.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute
UMASS Medical Center in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
UCSD Center for Mindfulness. Former professional training director for the UCSD Center for Mindfulness
Featured HWN Practices, Specific Interests, and Communities Served
Collective Trauma Healing
Weaving contemplative, indigenous and psychological nature based healing
Ecopsychology/Ecotherapy
Personal HWN Practice
Rochelle now lives in Taos, New Mexico and has a private practice in both Taos New Mexico and San Diego, California. She enjoys spending her free time in nature, hiking, practicing yoga, exploring Indigenous heritage, and resting with trees. She practices mindfulness-based meditation rooted in the Buddhist Theravada Tradition and practices meditation outside in nature daily.
Get In Touch
Address
3 Katsina Way, El Prado, New Mexico 87529
rochelle@newmindfullife.com
Phone
619-261-8510
Website
https://drrochellecalvert.com
Social
How I Am Caring for the Earth to Heal
I am currently working to establish an ecotherapy/ecopsychology masters level concentration with Southwestern College in Santa Fe New Mexico. This program is developing to a reflective exploration of the healing reciprocity between humans and the natural world. This specialization examines the profound disconnection that modern culture has experienced from the Earth and considers how this separation contributes to psychological and collective trauma, impacting both our relationships with one another and with the planet itself.
Grounded in transpersonal and contemplative psychology, ecological principles, ecopsychology and social, ecological, and political engagement, this concentration cultivates an understanding of ecological interconnectedness and the ways environmental degradation mirrors psychological suffering. Students explore how nature-based practices can support resilience, restoration, and transformation across individual and collective dimensions of life.
The concentration encourages students to approach the Earth not as something outside oneself, but as a remembering that we are the Earth. This orientation fosters an understanding of the self and the Earth as one. Through this awareness, the healing practices of ecotherapy become a reciprocal process—an act of participating in the healing of the self and the planet.
Through experiential learning, critical inquiry, and applied practice, the program emphasizes how re-weaving our interconnection with the living world nurtures mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Special attention is given to the collective dimensions of healing, highlighting how individual wellness is inseparable from community thriving and ecological balance, and how ecotherapy can serve as a pathway to repair and renewal across these interrelated spheres.