Interviews
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For Erika DiPasquale, building a global network of nature-based health professionals means more than creating another online platform. It means making sure practitioners never have to do this work alone. As Director...
From 5 to 12 July, participants from more than a dozen countries gathered in Barcelona for the FTHub Summer School, the in-person Forest Therapy Practitioner training. Over eight intensive days, psychologists, healthcare...
For Diego Serrano, biologist and researcher at the University of Burgos, the path into nature-based healthcare began not in a lab but at a mountain festival. In this interview, he explains why...
Professor Sónia Dias, Dean and Full Professor of Portugal’s NOVA National School of Public Health (NOVA NSPH), has spent her career making the case that lasting health is not primarily built within...
The wonder and the harshness of growing up in the desert; being surprised years later by the first leaf that falls on you; feeling overwhelmed by so much green when moving to...
Two farms, two girls in their childhood: one in Pinhalzinho, Brazil, the other in Littleton in the American Midwest, spending long hours outdoors. Now, two women converge in this conversation years later,...
With clarity and direction, Marta Pahissa leaves marks that change things for good. Her ideas become pioneering achievements, and her knowledge and courage make her a true agent of change for Planetary...
