FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
Supporting Anxiety and Depression Through Nature: Evidence-Based Protocols
- THEME 4
- TRACKS 1-3
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Inga Dreimane
By the end of this course, you will be able to design and facilitate a structured, evidence-informed nature contact protocol that supports clients presenting with anxiety or low mood, calibrated for clinical, healthcare, and counseling settings.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Design a differentiated two-phase nature contact protocol for clients presenting with anxiety, depression, or mixed presentations, applying the FTHub 5 Components of Nature-Based Interventions framework.
- Apply two evidence-anchored mechanisms in your session design: rumination interruption through externally directed attention, and behavioral activation through graded low-demand engagement.
- Word verbal cues that point attention outward and calibrate the stillness phase to a client's arousal level, while holding the screening threshold and referral route that keep the protocol within facilitation scope.
- Communicate the evidence base and the scope boundary to primary care physicians, social-prescribing link workers, and clinical colleagues using a one-page evidence summary and three pre-session communication templates.
- Evaluate your protocol design against a 12-criterion self-assessment rubric before first delivery, and adapt it across presentations, environments, and group sizes using the FTHub Liquid Interactions Model (LIM, FTHub 2021).
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Therapists: add a structured, mechanism-anchored nature contact protocol to your existing therapeutic work, with the framing language and scope boundary that keep it credible alongside your primary modality.
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Counselors: offer your clients a low-demand, repeatable outdoor practice that supports rumination interruption and behavioral activation between sessions, with cues and pacing calibrated to the predominant presentation.
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Healthcare workers: integrate a defensible, evidence-informed nature contact protocol into care pathways and social-prescribing referrals, with the communication templates and evidence brief to share with referrers and commissioners.
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Recommended prerequisite: Course 4-1 Trauma-Sensitive Nature-Based Practice. Recommended for all Theme 4 courses; especially relevant where anxiety or depression has a trauma history.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- Course overview, the single capability the course develops, and the scope boundary that keeps the work safe
- How to use the course: experience-before-theory sequence, practice log discipline, screening, and referral route
- Baseline self-assessment, professional intention setting, and the practice log template you use across every module
1Foundation
- The Rumination-Interruption Walk, the core experiential practice, performed before reading the evidence
- Reflection on the practice in your own attention, mood, and observed sensory shifts
- Why nature contact reduces rumination, and what this means for cue wording and site selection
- Behavioral activation, green exercise, and the approximately 120-minute weekly nature-contact benchmark
2Deep Dive
- How anxiety-predominant and depression-predominant presentations differ in arousal and motivation
- Applying the FTHub 5 Components of Nature-Based Interventions framework to your protocol design
- Extended two-phase practice introducing the behavioral-activation phase alongside rumination interruption
- Mapping the protocol against your professional context: clients, environments, dose, and constraints
3Application
- An annotated worked example of a 50-minute protocol for a low-mood group, with full design reasoning
- Designing your own differentiated protocol for your client group, presentation, and environment
- Running your design as a self-rehearsal on the actual site you will use with clients
- 12-criterion self-assessment rubric for a delivery-ready protocol
4Integration
- Synthesis of the two mechanisms, the differentiation, and the scope boundary
- Final reflection compared with your Module 0 baseline self-assessment
- Thirty-day action plan with three specific, dated commitments, including delivery, communication, and adaptation
- What I Learned competency checklist across four domains: Perceptual Practice, Conceptual Understanding, Facilitation Skills, and Professional Design
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COURSE TOOLS
Professional Tools Package
Included in every course. These are not learning exercises — they are working documents you use with your clients, referrers, and colleagues. Available from Module 3.
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Activity Template
Complete facilitation script with timing, safety notes, and debrief questions. Three duration variants. -
Evidence Summary
Plain-language summary of findings and citations. For clients, HR, and referrers. -
Adaptation Framework
Checklist for adapting across client populations, environments (nature/urban/indoor), and group sizes. -
Client Communication Template
Ready-to-use briefing text for three professional contexts: clinical/health, educational, and tourism/outdoor.
Learning Pathway
Theme & Tracks
Where this course sits — and where it takes you next. This course is part of the following Theme and Professional Track(s).
Theme 4: Nature-Based Approaches for Specific Populations
Curator
About the instructor
Inga Dreimane
Project Manager (Latvia)
Inga is an FTHub Certified Forest Therapy Practitioner and Trainer, as well as an active contributor to the Forest Therapy Institute Research Lab. Holding a master’s degree in Psychology, she has worked in the field since 2005 and is a member of the Latvian Association of Addiction Psychologists. Fluent in Latvian, English, and Russian, she supports individuals facing addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and codependency. With extensive experience working with vulnerable youth and adults, she integrates evidence-based psychology with the restorative power of nature. Inga has also spent over a decade training professionals and developing educational programs focused on addiction prevention, violence, crisis intervention, and resilience building.
Evidence Base
Grounded in peer-reviewed science
Why this matters for your practice
FTHub Academy courses are evidence-informed at every step. The evidence is not decorative — each module connects theory to field practice using the same scientific frameworks underpinning the FTHub Method.
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Inga Dreimane
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International Projects Director
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