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Bird’s Foot Design Studio provides customized therapeutic landscape design for community groups, organizations and home-owners. With experience in hospice care, long-term care and mental health care, Lynn works closely with each of her clients to develop meaningful outdoor spaces suitable for providing therapeutic horticulture experiences and horticultural therapy programming. Bird’s Foot offers expertise in the development of specialized features such a labyrinths, sensory gardens, meditative walks and memory gardens for dementia care.
As a Registered Horticultural Therapist, Lynn also offers consultation services and education to promote the profession and practice of horticultural therapy.
Bio:
Lynn Leach has been sharing her expertise and passion for the garden for nearly 30 years. As a Landscape Designer, Registered Horticultural Therapist and Educator, she is committed to helping people realize the many mental, physical and emotional benefits of a meaningful connection to nature.
Lynn enjoys time with her family, exploring various artistic crafts and experimenting in her own wild garden.
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: birdsfootdesignstudio
Facebook: BirdsFootDesign
Website: birdsfoot.ca
With professional experience in Community Health, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Mental Health, and Palliative Care settings, Bianca comes prepared with a toolkit of engaging, meaningful therapeutic interventions centered around the modality of horticulture. A variety of programs focus on goals such as physical mobility, socialization, sensory stimulation, hopefulness, or experiences of contribution and meaning. BV Horticultural Therapy offers private therapy, group therapy, and speaking or team-building experiences.
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Bianca van der Stoel is a budding Horticultural Therapist with a solid foundation as a Recreation Therapist. Bianca’s goal is to promote a shift in our healthcare system, reinforcing the role that nature, plants, and green spaces can play in an individual’s well-being.
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: @bvhorticulturaltherapy
Facebook: /bvhorticulturaltherapy
Website: bvhorticulturaltherapy.com
The labyrinth is an amazing container capable of holding us while processing difficult emotions. As a labyrinth facilitator, Carla’s toolkit is brimming with techniques incorporating the labyrinth and nature to support private clients during their healing journey.
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Carla is a Horticultural Therapy Practitioner and certified Advanced Labyrinth Facilitator supporting those working with mental health challenges and individuals in need of strategies to help process powerful emotions created from trauma.
Certificate programs in Horticultural Therapy, Trauma-Informed Practice and Holding Space are a few of the programs that support and strengthen her work in the field she deeply respects.
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: @atherton_carla
Website: http://carlaatherton.ca/
Providing training in therapeutic horticulture and horticultural therapy and supporting private clients through access to nature.
Ann Kent is a Registered Horticultural Therapist, Master Level. She is a professional member of the CHTA and AHTA and a past chair of the CHTA. Ann provides horticultural therapy programs and helps develop accessible, habitat gardens for private clients and long-term care facilities.
Since 2006, Ann has been the lead instructor for the Horticultural Therapy Professional Development Program, which provides a comprehensive HT Certificate as well as therapeutic horticulture and nature-based therapy workshops.
If you are looking for educational opportunities in horticulture and nature-based therapies, come and learn with Ann and a skilled team of keen instructors. Our land-based studies are set in a beautiful west coast forest on Vancouver Island.
Facebook: /HorticultureandNatureTherapyVancouver
Instagram: garden_paths
Website: https://catkingardens.ca/
Cliff Thorbes HTR, CCDP, lives in Sidney, British Columbia on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, the traditional unceded territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ People.
Cliff provides presentations for both personal and organizational development including:
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- Personality Dimensions®
- Stress Busters
- HT/TH as a therapeutic practice
Cliff’s Bio
Cliff Thorbes is a Registered Horticultural Therapist, a Certified Career Development Practitioner, and Expressive Artist. He is the Horticultural Therapist at Homewood Ravensview, a private 75-bed mental health, trauma and addiction facility offering evidence based, medically-led, inpatient services for first responders, military, veterans, executives & professionals, adults, and young adults.
Website: https://cliffthorbes.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffthorbes/
I am a registered Social Service Worker in Ontario, Canada. I offer individual supportive counseling, grief and bereavement counseling, and professional consultation services and support groups to people living with dementia and their families, friends, partners, and care partners. I incorporate creative, nature-based interventions into my counseling sessions and support groups.
Crystal Beaudoin Biography:
I am a compassionate and experienced Registered Social Service Worker specializing in Gerontology and grief/bereavement. I teach in the Social Service Worker – Gerontology program at a local college and have worked in the long-term care sector providing Social and Horticultural Therapy services for the past three years.
Prior to entering the Social Services sector, I completed a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies and a master’s degree in Buddhism and East Asian Religions. While in graduate school, I volunteered at a Buddhist temple, where I began studying tea meditation (茶禅 cha chan). I volunteered at a hospice for a few years after completing my graduate degree.
I am currently working on a Master of Counselling Psychology degree. Clients have described me as patient, calm, light-hearted, open-minded, and approachable.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cultivating_comfort_counseling/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572516101212
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cultivating-comfort/
Website: http://www.cultivatingcomfort.ca
Website: https://www.fieldsandflourtherapy.ca/
The PERUVIAN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND THERAPEUTIC HORTICULTURE was created in 2015 to train Spanish-speaking professionals of many countries in the world in horticultural therapy. It is the first Institute in the world with a complete training program in Spanish. The Institute also designs therapeutic gardens and horticultural therapy programs for different population groups.
Bio: Daniela Silva-Rodriguez Bonazzi
Daniela’s connection with plants started at early age. She holds a BA in biology & environmental science; a Master’s degree in plant breeding; Certificates in Horticultural Therapy; self taught in landscaping and agriculture. For the past 12 years she dedicates her life to horticultural therapy. She founded the Instituto and the Peruvian Association for Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (APHTS).
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: @ihts_pe
Facebook: institutohorticulturaterapeutica
Website: https://www.horticulturaterapeutica.pe/
Cultivating therapeutic people-plant relationships for happier people and a healthier planet.
Facilitating nature-based experiences to help people build resilience to stress and adapt to change.
Providing customized workplace wellness programs, personal coaching services, guided nature immersion sessions, and interactive presentations (online & in-garden).
Rebuilding native ecosystems and indigenous food/medicine corridors.
Creating public food forestry projects and re-imagining community gardens.
Delivering professional horticultural therapy programs and education to help caregivers provide meaningful nature-based therapeutic interventions.
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Cheney Creamer (B.A., V.F.T.C.) is an internationally recognized Horticultural Therapy Specialist, HeartMath® Certified Coach, and Organizational Wellness Consultant. Cheney is the Founder & President of One Green Square Wellness Consulting, an Organic Master Gardener (O.M.G.), Cannabis Sommelier and educator, and the current Chair of the Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association (CHTA).
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: @onegreensquare
Facebook: onegreensquarewellness
Website: onegreensquare.ca
The Plant Space offers horticultural therapy services in Nova Scotia’s beautiful Annapolis Valley. Our mother/daughter team brings a background of botanical research, psychology, and tai-chi instruction to our evidence-based therapeutic horticultural practice.
We are happy to offer community therapeutic mindful planting workshops in collaboration with our local venue partners. We specialize in delivering horticultural-based therapies for our seniors, particularly those living with dementia. The Plant Space is currently developing programs designed for our over-anxious youth in higher education along with inter-generational programming.
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The Plant Space was founded by Sherri Nettleton & Kim Janssen, a mother/daughter team, in 2023.
Kim discovered horticultural therapy as a personal relief from corporate burnout. As a former botanist, she has since created The Plant Space to bring those benefits, and a love of plants, to others. Today, she is President of The Friends of the Acadian Forest, the volunteer organization associated with The Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens at Acadia University.
Trained in psychology, Sherri has always looked for ways to help others and share her love of things that grow. Professionally, she deepened her respect for the land we steward as she oversaw one of Canada’s largest investments into carbon neutrality with The Council of Sustainable Industries. She founded the Canadian Tai-Chi Academy in 2006 and brings over three decades of experience with community health initiatives to our programming.
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: theplantspace.ca
Facebook: The Plant Space
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From the creator of Garden Activity Signs comes an experiential online course: ‘A Daily Nature Practice: Playful Self-Care for Healthcare Professionals’. To feel better and function more effectively in your daily life, enroll in this enjoyable, evidence-based guide to growing your own unique daily nature practice.
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Shelagh Smith, HTR, MAEEC, developed and facilitated therapeutic garden programs in healthcare and social service settings for 23 years. Useful handouts and educational blog posts available on her website.
Contact: [email protected]
We are a West Coast Garden and Design firm rooted in sustainable, client-focused restorative gardening.
We cultivate relationships with nature, our living environments — be it a balcony gem oasis, or a focus on growing into your own food security.
Working with us, you’ll become a steward of your own natural environment and feel at ease in nature.
Contact: [email protected]
Van-Art Expression has been offering art, music and horticultural therapy services in the Tri-Cities area for 30 years both in person and with telehealth encrypted virtual therapeutic support.
At Michelle’s home studio, her therapeutic garden is always ready for clients to take a walk on the path, pull a weed, or just sit in nature and find the peace they are seeking.
With Michelle’s extensive background in the field of mental health and wellness she believes that using a combination of art and horticultural therapy can help people find the path to healing, growth and development.
In addition to mental health and wellness counselling Michelle also uses a combination the art and nature to coach people who are looking for solutions to time management challenges, goal implementation and procrastination issues.
Get started today with a consult for the Art and Horticultural Therapy or Motivational Time Coaching.
Michelle is a Registered Art Therapist and practices both art and horticultural therapy in her daily work. In 1994 she started practising art therapy and plant growth and environment into her business. As the years progressed, she found a deeper need to include more plant-based experiences into her therapeutic practice and in 2012 received her Horticultural Therapy Certificate with Ann Kent, HTM.
During her HT training she ran an elementary garden club program for six years. After completing her certificate Michelle started a horticultural therapy program alongside the art therapy assessment work she did at an inpatient psychiatric program working with individuals with intellectual disability. Michelle continues to develop that program and is always looking for ways to expand and improve the integration of nature into people’s daily practice and improve individuals mental health and wellness.
In additions to her work at the hospital Michelle’s therapeutic garden in her home studio continues to grow and develop. With eleven different garden beds, there is always something to do. Michelle is also a published author and takes great care to include elements of nature, health and wellness in her women’s fiction stories.
“How I nurture the needs in my life, will determine the growth of the idea.” mlod
Michelle believes that everyone deserves an opportunity to nurture an idea, a plant, a goal, a belief and have someone witness their process with care, ethics and professional integrity and invites you to contact her today.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanartexpression/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanartexpression/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moucharekdeoauthor/
Website: http://www.van-artexpression.com/
We provide nature-based programming for families with children and youth with support needs, neurodivergent young adults, as well as other marginalized communities. We teach life skills including gardening, cooking, art, and animal husbandry as alternative therapeutic practices to heal, build confidence, and foster a sense of belonging.
Bio: Hannah Glasspoole
Hannah comes from a background of arts and design, but has always found comfort in the natural world, and wants to share that with others. She started Wild Embrace with her wife Kat after years of running a small business in Vancouver. Her goal is to center marginalized people and help them realize their full potential.
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram: @wildembracefarm
Facebook: /WildEmbraceFarm
