Forest Therapy Guide Certification
Online or In-Person
Guide mindful walks with nature as a pathway to healing self, other, and Earth.
Make a difference.
You want to share meaningful experiences in nature, but you’re not sure where to start the journey.
We’ve walked this path too and will help you guide your clients and community with confidence and care.
Join our global community of over 400 certified guides and be part of a movement to get people back to nature. Our mindfulness-based, experiential training—offered online or in person—will deepen your connection with the living world and offer you the tools necessary to step into your role as a forest therapy guide.
Learn from home.
Learn on retreat.
The Forest Therapy School is for:
Anyone drawn to mindfulness, self-discovery, and nature connection.
Aspiring guides who are excited about sharing forest therapy with others.
Mental health or healthcare professionals, educators, clergy, coaches, yoga instructors, and other wellness practitioners who want to add a nature-based modality to their existing practice.
Our signature program gives you everything you need to feel confident co-creating with nature so you can offer participants a meaningful guided experience.
Meet the Team
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Regan Stacey
LEAD INSTRUCTOR
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Leah Manuel
INSTRUCTOR
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Lara Laskowski
INSTRUCTOR
Learn and experience a mindful approach to forest therapy in both philosophy and practice.
Join The Forest Therapy School Community
Enroll in our Forest Therapy Guide Certification - online or on retreat.
Train to guide forest therapy for personal, collective, and planetary well-being.
Become part of our family as a Certified Forest Therapy Guide.
Why train with us?
We are a women-owned business. We lead from the heart with a strong sense of integrity.
We live the work. We not only teach forest therapy but we continue to engage in private practice serving the general public, various organizations, and private clients.
We build community. We’ve trained hundreds of guides and deeply value our growing global community knowing we are in this work together.
Curious what you’ll learn in our program?
Inspiration from
our Guides.
We’ve helped hundreds of students deepen their connection with nature, find a new confident path, and join the exciting world of Certified Forest Therapy Guides.
“Do you know that realization you have once you experience something and it’s as if the keystone of the bridge has finally been put in place, the thing that holds up the rest of the structure? Participating in The Forest Therapy School’s guide certification program was like that for me - meeting with these wonderful humans, learning to more mindfully interact with the more-than-human world.”
— Beth Mowry, Proprietor, The Awen Center
“This was the perfect balance of self-paced learning, live engagement and learning, science/research and spirituality/mindfulness, and real-world practice. This is one of the few trainings where I am graduating actually feeling equipped to do what I signed up to learn. Many other trainings don’t really equip us to graduate and bring the work out into the world, but this one did.”
— Jessie Brown, JD, ACC
“Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge and experiences to offer this training. The breadth and depth was so much more than expected. It was so truly valuable and has offered me a whole new way of being, both personally and professionally. Thank you for creating The Forest Therapy School!”
— Michelle Chotowetz Farkas, Registered Psychologist
“I absolutely loved the instruction. I came into this thinking I had some knowledge but it was nothing compared to what I've learned, so thank you.”
— Dee Mueller, Program Coordinator at Drake University
