By Daniela Silva-Rodriguez Bonazzi & Alexandra Febles Note: A Spanish version of this blog is available here. “In the garden we cultivate your tranquility, we make your senses bloom” Daniela Silva-Rodriguez…
As horticultural therapists, we are constantly searching for creative ways and methods to assimilate nature into our programming. We have all witnessed, firsthand positive therapeutic outcomes facilitated by the engagement with…
A Re-cap of the AHTA 2022 Conference On September 8-10, in Kansas City, Missouri the 2022 annual AHTA conference took place…in person. There were the usual challenges of attending a…
By Siang Yu Tham Note: A Spanish version of this blog is available here. Horticultural therapy is being increasingly offered as a psychosocial intervention designed to meet the needs of…
Caring for the Land & People Isabelle Boucq is a French native, a clinical psychologist, published author and former student at the Horticultural Therapy Institute. From 2009-2012, Isabelle was…
By Emma Martindale, May 2022 Note: A Spanish version of this blog is available here. Let me introduce you to Emma Martindale, a horticultural therapy practitioner I met in Edinburgh…
As a Valuable Mental Health Benefit Sometimes it feels like there is simply no good news in the world. Since March of 2020, those times seem to occur more frequently. A…
Using HT for Mental Health in Puerto Rico By Pedro Arocho Soto Pedro J.Arocho Soto is a Doctoral Intern in Clinical Psychology at the Hospital (psychiatric) Metropolitano de la Montaña…
In our technology-driven existence, the natural world is too often managed as a commodity, something to be manipulated and exploited for profit. This attitude has become so ingrained in our…
The Flipside of Winter The winter solstice, for many of us, brings about feelings of melancholy, deprivation, a sense of loss. Here in the northern hemisphere, we are in the…