Interviews

Adventure Therapy, a pioneering path to health through wild nature
This is the path of Natalia Ruiz de Cortázar, a pioneer in her professional area and Professor at FTHub: Master in Mental Health Counselling, psychologist, psychoeducational guide and Wilderness Therapist who develops her work through Experientia, a non-profit organisation formed by mental health and intervention professionals that offers a different and validated way of doing

The meeting of art, forest and health
Rita Nunes da Ponte is one of Forest Therapy Hub’s professors. Her masterclasses on Expressive Arts are one of a kind. Not only for her experience but for her profound approach to art, people and nature. “It is as a member of SPAT’s training team that I am happy to coordinate our contribution to Forest

Nature in motion: when the road returns to the forest
Vivian Winterhoff lives in the United States, she is a Forest Bathing Guide, trainer and mentor in FTHub. She has a deep and practical approach to Forest Bathing, senses and empathy. After meeting her in the training it is no surprise to learn she was a little girl when she started writing a book about

The scottish Forest Bathing path
Caitlin Keddie is a pioneer. A trainer and mentor in FTHub, she became the first certified Forest Bathing Guide in Scotland in 2017. She is passionate about mental health and she regularly facilitates Forest Bathing workshops and Forest Bathing walks to the public, corporate clients and government organizations. Caitlin co-owns Napiers the Herbalists Bathgate, a multi-disciplinary clinic

The Well-being Forest in Chile to take “medicine” from nature
Claudio Vasquez lives in Valdivia city, in the south of Chile, one of the most beautiful and exotic landscapes in the world, where the Valdivian jungle or Andean-Patagonian forest in mountains of dense green vegetation co-exist with many rivers that join the Pacific Ocean. Is in those landscapes that he owns the only “Well-being Forest”