Horticultural Therapy Enhances End-of-Life Care
We all realize that at some point in our lives we will lose someone we love. Death is as much a part of life as birth and the death of…
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Sensory Integration-Based Horticultural Therapy Program
Horticultural Therapy Connections What Is Sensory Integration? There is a close connection between horticulture and sensory integration, particularly in how horticultural activities naturally and diversely stimulate the sensory systems, supporting…
Gestalt Therapy and Horticultural Therapy: Points of Connection for Companionship and Transformation
By Claudia Sarolli Claudia Sarolli is a communicator for development from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú and a Gestalt Therapist from the Centro Gestáltico del Perú. She is currently…
Nature-Based Social Prescribing
Promoting Therapeutic Horticulture as Community Healthcare Imagine, for a moment, a healthcare strategy that invites those seeking mental healthcare services into a conversation on how to improve their quality of…
A Passion for Gardening in the UK
By Lindsey Hamilton This is Part 1 of a two-part series looking into horticultural therapy in the UK – its origins, practices as well as leading organizations and programs. Part…
Harmony in Nature: Plant Meditation in Horticultural Therapy
Find this article in Spanish here. Blog writer Daniela Silva-Rodriguez Bonazzi provides the following from India By Sathishkumar S and Beela G.K. Sathish is an Indian Horticultural Therapist with expertise…
A New Professional Credential Option: Therapeutic Horticulture Practitioner-THP
On June 1, 2024, the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) began accepting applications for a new professional credential-therapeutic horticulture practitioner, THP. Since the establishment of THP there has been some…
2024 International Symposium on Horticultural Therapy in Taiwan
This article can be read in Mandarin here. Horticultural Therapy Development in Taiwan Over the past 20 years, horticultural therapy has flourished in Taiwan. Many people are interested in using plants…
Reasons to Hope: Signs of Recognition for Nature-Based Interventions: Latin America (Part III)
This article was originally written in Spanish and can be viewed here. This is the third and final post in a series of three in which HTI regular contributors shared indications…
Reasons to Hope: Signs of Recognition for Nature-Based Interventions (Part II)
Part II/Colleen Griffin, HTR This is the second post in a series of three in which HTI regular contributors will share indications that nature-based interventions are getting increasing recognition and…