Restorative Horticultural Therapy (RHT) offers a comfortable safe space to develop positive mental health coping tools for life when in a time of healing, recovery, and therapy. Clients are presented with the opportunity to discover and gain horticulture skills to self soothe, increase self esteem, self worth, and regain life balance through repetitive gardening and plant care activities.
The purpose of Restorative Horticultural Therapy is to offer a creative treatment medium in which people and plants connect through the restorative practice of plant cultivation and nature related activities.
Restorative Horticultural Therapy (RHT) specifically tailors its’ horticultural therapy, therapeutic horticulture and healing gardens to meet the unique and specific needs of each client and treatment center it serves.
With an environment rich in plants, warm air and abundant sunlight South Florida is a uniquely qualified location ideal for practicing this unique treatment modality.
Therapeutic Horticulture and Horticultural Therapy can provide therapeutic benefits for:
Depression
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Life cycle transitions
Addiction
Displacement
Migration
Eating Disorders
Professional burnout
Self Esteem Concerns
Reintegration
Trauma
Surviving power-based personal violence
Anyone can benefit from connecting to nature! Clients do not need to have a ‘green thumb’ to try HT or TH! This means that experience working with plants, gardening, or possessing any kind of background with nature is unneeded! All that is required is a willingness to open to the therapeutic process of the human nature connection.