HORTICULTURAL
THERAPY

is the use of horticultural / plant activities as a therapeutic tool for mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being that’s led by a trained horticultural therapy professional.

Professionally established over 100 years ago, you’ll find HT practiced most often in hospitals, schools, mental-health facilities, prisons, and rehabilitation centers. 

With Basker, I’m excited to introduce HT more broadly and make it more accessible outside of clinical and institutionalized settings - so everyone can benefit from the practice.

Horticultural therapy for children and adults

I WORK WITH
ADULTS + CHILDREN

I offer private + one-on-one, group, and workplace well-being sessions.

All programming is created with a client’s goals in mind and uses one (and sometimes a combination) of these plant-related activities: Gardening, Arts, and Cooking.

  • Feel overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious

  • Want a deeper connection to self

  • Seek new social opportunities / less loneliness

  • Want more moments offline  

  • Experience symptoms of (peri) menopause and other women’s health conditions

  • Want to find more hope 

  • Seek tools to create more everyday calm and mindfulness

  • Crave new experiences / less monotony

I help people who:

Send a message to hello@baskergardens.com for a free consult and pricing details.

growing flowers can help with stress and anxiety

Examples of HT goals:

EMOTIONAL

Reduce stress, increase resilience, decrease overwhelm + anxiety, increase acceptance of imperfection, improve anger control and patience, improve empathy towards self / others

SOCIAL

Build relationships, reduce isolation and loneliness, create offline + in-person experiences, make intergenerational connections, create confidence in groups 

can gardening help feel less depressed

COGNITIVE

Increase focus on tasks, improve time management, build confidence in decision making, improve memory recall

PHYSICAL

Increase endurance and mobility, create more daily movement opportunities, increase range of motion, improve nutrition (via food literacy)

garden as therapy tool

The research on how gardening and nature has helped people’s mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being is pretty remarkable.