Interviews (EN)

Clinical and forensic psychologist David Roland has spent years exploring what happens when psychological practice moves beyond the consulting room. An FTHub Certified Forest Bathing Guide, he now sees clients outdoors, leads Forest Bathing walks, and is involved in research at Southern Cross University exploring compassion-based approaches to climate-related trauma. His relationship with nature is

Erica Timko Olson’s path from nursing to nature-based interventions didn’t begin in a laboratory or a Forest Therapy training. It began with a phone call from her father. At the time, Erica was away from her native Minnesota, navigating a new work culture, a demanding PhD program, work, and life with six children. She was

A landscape is therapeutic when safety, accessibility, sensory richness, and biodiversity come together with the ways people can actually experience the place. That is the view of FTHub-certified Forest Bathing Guide and Capacity Building & Content Manager Betty Fang, who has worked with FTHub Trainer Alex Gesse to bring Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy training

Anne Robillard spent eight years in and out of hospitals with her son. During those years, she learned something she hadn’t fully appreciated before: even brief encounters with nature could offer her family refuge and hope. Years later, that experience would help shape the foundation of her work as an occupational therapist, FTHub Forest Bathing

Claudio Vasquez has spent more than a decade pioneering Forest Bathing in Chile, and is now applying that experience to a new kind of space: the therapeutic garden. For Claudio Vasquez, the journey from occupational safety and forest management to Forest Bathing and therapeutic landscapes has never really been a change of direction. Rather, it