Forest Therapy Guide Certification

Winter Online 2026

January 20 - May 5, 2026

16-Week Signature Online Program

FOREST THERAPY GUIDE CERTIFICATION

Join our 16-week Online Signature Program designed to deepen your connection with the natural world as you slowly embody the teachings.

Over 10 immersive weeks, you’ll explore rich course content, experience guided forest therapy walks, and connect with a supportive community through weekly meetups.

Then, integrate your learning through a 6-week mentored practicum that helps you embody the practice and prepare to guide others.  

16 weeks: 10 modules + 6-week practicum

January 20, 2026 — May 5, 2026

Tuesdays @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm ET

Location: Live Online via Zoom

Tuition: $1895 USD*

Class size is limited.

*Sign up before December 1 and enjoy a $200 early-bird savings.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Outline the history of forest therapy and forest bathing

  • Discuss the holistic benefits of the practice along with the science to back it up

  • Develop mindfulness in nature and embodiment practices

  • Create and offer guided nature meditations 

  • Explain the importance of the senses in connecting to nature and ourselves

  • Utilize a reliable and trusted walk sequence for guiding clients 

  • Design nature-based invitations for client engagement

  • Modify the walk to meet the needs of the client 

  • Utilize group facilitation and effective communication skills

  • Relate the psycho-spiritual dimension of the human-nature connection

Your training takes place 100% online

with no in-person requirement

You will receive…

10 modules with instructor-led classes

weekly nature connection practices

6-week mentored practicum

3 forest therapy walks

mentoring calls

resource library

community

Lifetime access for FTS Certified Forest Therapy Guides

Our 16-week Online Signature Training is designed to deepen your nature connection as you slowly embody the teachings over the course of 10 immersive weeks of content and 3 forest therapy walks, followed by a 6-week mentored practicum.

All classes and walks take place virtually via Zoom.

During the weekly ‘live meetups,’ you will have the opportunity to join in discussion with our highly qualified instructors and your peers, bringing life to the online course materials. 

You will also experience 3 virtual forest therapy walks during the program—2 instructor-led walks and 1 student-led walk where you will get hands-on practice. 

During the 6-week practicum you'll have access to your instructors via Q&A group mentor calls.

Once certified, you’ll receive The Forest Therapy School’s collection of 100 invitations for use on your walks, a resource library of books, articles, websites, films, poetry, research studies, etc. to deepen your knowledge, as well as a fully customizable slide presentation to share with your community to grow your guiding practice.

In addition, you will receive an invitation to join our virtual community of Certified Forest Therapy Guides where you can connect, be inspired, and receive ongoing support.

As an FTS Certified Forest Therapy Guide, you receive lifetime access to our training guidebook, which means as we add to the program, you will have access to all the new training content.

Meet Your Instructor:

Regan Stacey

Owner and Lead Instructor of The Forest Therapy School

Regan Stacey is an artist, writer, and mindfulness meditation teacher who brings humans and nature together for personal, collective, and planetary well-being. The forest has long been a partner in her life — through joy, curiosity, and life’s most difficult challenges. As a cancer survivor, she came to understand the healing power of nature through a deeper understanding of our interconnectedness. Now she, in turn, shares what she has learned: how to awaken the forest within.

She is dedicated to the work of reconnecting humans to nature and is highly credentialed as your instructor. She is qualified to teach mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) through Brown University and is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the Greater Good Science Center and Sounds True, with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach (MMTCP). She trained with Gil Fronsdal, Kirsten Rudestam, and Susie Harrington in Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy and is certified through the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and through the Association for Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, where she completed her certification as a forest therapy guide.

"The Forest Therapy School's Forest Therapy Guide Program has been an amazing experience. The content, layout, delivery, pace and overall approach was so well done in all respects. It's been such a pleasure to learn from you, and I am truly grateful for the knowledge and skills I've acquired. I am confident and excited to begin my journey as a forest therapy guide, and look forward to being a part of the community. Thank you. " — Mike Sidoti, M.Ed., MBA, BCC

Schedule:

Live Instruction:

Tuesdays, January 20, 2026 – May 5, 2026 | 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm ET

Forest Therapy Walks:

  • Saturday, February 7 @ 10:00 am — 11:30 am ET

  • Saturday, March 21 @ 10:00 am — 11:30 am ET

  • Saturday, April 3 @ 10:00 am — 11:30 am ET

Graduation:

  • Tuesday, May 5, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm ET

To qualify for certification, you may miss no more than 3 classes and you must make 2 of the 3 scheduled forest therapy walks. All classes are recorded.

Class space is limited.

Tuition: $1895

Enroll by December 1 and save $200 with an early-bird savings.

Payment plans available through Klarna and Afterpay at checkout.

We offer a limted number of partial scholarships. If you are in need of scholarship assistance, please fill out the application here and we’ll get back to you shortly. Thank you.

We offer 27 CE credits through the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching.

NBHWC Approved Course CE Number: CEA-000003-1