Trail Therapy Collective

Find your flow.

Ride to reconnect with yourself, with others and with the world around you.

MTB & MINDSET Coaching • Nature Connection & Conservation • Community Engagement & Inclusion

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our Trail Therapy Mission

To build individual wellbeing, community health and environmental stewardship through mountain biking and active nature connection.

Trail Therapy Collective is based on the land of the Gayemagal people. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present.
Forrest Campbell and Chris Tobin of Gravity Adaptive Inc.

Why this is important

In a world dominated by screens, algorithms and constant digital noise, most of us are feeling a bit unplugged from the things that actually matter.


We’re overthinking, overstimulated, and increasingly disconnected – from our own minds and bodies, from genuine human community and from the natural world – and our physical health, mental wellbeing and social structures are suffering as a result.

Trail Therapy is about getting that connection back.

It’s an active, real-world approach to mental health and personal growth. By combining strategic psychotherapy with the dynamic flow of mountain biking and nature immersion, we help you clear mental (and environmental) trash, build real resilience and get naturally connected again – with the people and places that matter.

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MTB & MIndset Coaching

Build capability, overcome negative thinking, be more active and have fun.


Our dynamic on-trail skills coaching and targeted 1:1 TRAIL psychotherapy programs give you the clarity and confidence to reach your full capability both on and off the bike (helping with things like breaking bad habits, conquering anxiety and processing trauma or stress).

Community Engagement & Inclusion

The benefits of movement, nature, health, wellbeing and fun should be shared.


Through our work with Gravity Adaptive Inc., MTB23 youth academies and multi-user trail etiquette initiatives, we build inclusive community structures. We make trails more accessible for all abilities, support the support riders and foster harmonious, respectful outdoor spaces.

Nature Connection & Conservation

The trails are part of our identity and keep us healthy. We must return the favour.


Through the Trash Free Trails (Bush-to-Beaches) hub and our open-source TRASH FREE philosophy, we use time on the dirt to cultivate deep nature connection, reset your nervous system, and actively care for wild places.

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Why Trail Therapy Works

Flow state happens when challenge perfectly matches skill

It is that effortless state of absolute focus where self-criticism quietens, overthinking stops and time slows down. We need moments where the chatter in our mind goes quiet. When line choice demands total focus, overthinking stops. Trail Therapy works because mountain biking creates a state of immersion that resets an overstimulated nervous system and returns you to absolute present-moment focus. At the same time  satisfying five fundamental human needs that a screen or a four-walled office simply can't fulfill:

Explore

Deep down, we are wired to explore. Whether it's tackling a remote backcountry line or finding a new path through a local park, exploration sparks curiosity and breaks rigid mental loops. Nature meets you right where you are.

Challenge

Through our work with Gravity Adaptive Inc., youth academies, and multi-user trail etiquette initiatives, we build inclusive community structures. We make trails accessible for all abilities, train support riders, and foster harmonious, respectful outdoor spaces.

Reconnect

Time in wild spaces reduces stress, quiets an overstimulated nervous system, and resets your mental state. Stepping outside everyday noise restores focus and reminds us where we belong.

Socialise

Shared effort and outdoor adventure create genuine human connection. The best riding communities know the tribe is strongest when the door is open widest – giving you a place to belong, share, and heal.

Evolve

On the trail, growth is tangible. Building technical riding skills, reading terrain, understanding weather, and practicing trail stewardship build real confidence, self-reliance, and capability that transfer directly into everyday life.

On-bike trail therapy options

Mindset-Focused MTB Coaching

Immersive MTB Trail Therapy

Active trail-based program that leverages mountainbike-based nature immersion and flow-state neurology to calm anxiety, overcome fear and helps to reframe neurodivergence away from social stigma.
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Traditional MTB Coaching

Dynamic MTB Skills Coaching

From learning the basics to developing advanced skills, we help you to build technical riding confidence (cornering, body position, line choice) as well as capability, risk management and resilience that you can take into the world beyond the trails.
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Open Source MTB Mindset

A positive mindset for every ride!

You don't need a coach on every ride to turn time on the dirt into active self-care! Based on our collaboration with Trash Free Trails, the TRASH FREE framework is a FREE open-source mindset built around 9 actionable principles.
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Working together to make mountain biking more accessible, sustainable and fun!

Community Engagement

We work with community leaders, policy makers, destinations and trail networks to assist in the development of strategies and assets that create and nurture relationships between the mountain biking community and the broader community.
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Gravity Adaptive Inc.

A not-for-profit organisation that is making mountain biking more inclusive and accessible for more people, whatever their ability through adaptive trail design, advocacy, coaching and infrastructure.
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Trash Free Trails

An alliance of like-minded trail users, organisations, events and communities working together to make the trails we love — and the wild places they take us — more accessible, sustainable and fun.
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MTB23

MTB 23 Mountain Bike Coaching and Rider Development provides quality mountain bike skills development coaching, in an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring environment to learn, practice and progress MTB skills.
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Meet The Team

Trail Therapy collaborators

Dan Smith
Rider Development & MTB Performance Coach
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Tom Hutton
MTB Coach & Clinical Lead
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Off-bike trail therapy options

Mindset Coaching

'Choose Change' book

Written as a practical, future-oriented guide to personal transformation, Choose Change breaks down the mechanics of how we form habits, how self-limiting beliefs hold us back, and how to actively reprogram your decision-making.
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Mindset Coaching

Hypnotherapy

Starting with a chat about what's going on, you'll identify and understand the behaviours and beliefs that are holding you back. Then using a subconscious and/or nature-based 'therapeutic intervention' you'll break or reprogram that pattern of thinking and activate the skills and resources you already have in you to change the way things are to the way you want them to be.
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