Nurturing Minds Through Nature

Nature & Animals: Integrative Therapy Training

This training is designed to be inclusive for those interested in nature-based therapy and/or animal-assisted therapy, whether you’re looking to specialize in one or both. It also offers the flexibility to integrate these approaches specifically within a care farm setting, allowing you to adapt your practice to a variety of therapeutic environments.

All the details you need to know are outlined below!

Explore the transformative potential of nature-based work with our immersive 10-Week Nature & Animals Integrative Therapy Training, designed for mental health professionals and educators. This comprehensive Level 1 program provides the knowledge, skills, and hands-on experience needed to implement innovative, effective interventions in outdoor settings.

Empowering Youth Through Nature

Our approach goes beyond traditional methods, integrating nature walks, mindfulness, gardening, reflection activities, and rituals. You'll also learn how to create therapeutic interactions with animals and discover how these elements come together at our Care Farms.

This training is ideal for those who want to:

Create experiential activities to enhance therapeutic practice.

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Use nature’s patterns to address family systems.

Discover Techniques

Apply a model that integrates diverse theoretical orientations in non-traditional settings.

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Develop strategies for leveraging natural settings, animals, and outdoor activities to improve therapeutic outcomes.

Join Us

Join us to harness the therapeutic power of nature and animals, supporting clients facing emotional, mental, or social challenges while fostering personal growth, well-being, and community resilience.

Meet Your Trainer

Amy Grace, LMFT

Amy Grace is a leading expert in care farming with over 20 years of experience integrating nature-based and animal-assisted therapies into mental health care. She has worked with diverse populations, including those with trauma, anxiety, and depression, while fostering social inclusion for vulnerable groups. Amy combines clinical expertise with hands-on experience to create innovative care models promoting physical, emotional, and social well-being. A sought-after trainer and speaker, she empowers others to use the restorative power of nature to transform lives.

Schedule, Location and Costs

Start Date: We will post new sessions once we have it.

Duration: 2 hours a week; Total of 20 hours (10 weeks)

Time: Fridays, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Located at the Warm Springs Care Farm, a historic and tranquil setting located off Warm Springs Ave. in downtown Boise. The beautiful farm provides a serene environment for learning and hands-on practice, ensuring an immersive experience in nature-based and animal-assisted therapies.

Thanks to Key Bank Foundation, we are able to offer

this $1,000 value training for FREE!

Join Our Naturewise Therapy Network

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Complete our Nature & Animals: Integrative Therapy Training and become Nature Care Member.

What’s Included when you join our Naturewise Therapy Network

1 Hour of Professional Consultation per Month: Join the monthly group meeting to get guidance on how to integrate new activities into your therapy, support with problem-solving, and help in setting up and managing care farming programs.
Member Packet: This includes a FAQ and resource pamphlet, notepad, pen, and membership certificate. It’s a valuable resource to support your ongoing use of nature-based therapies.
Networking & Additional Support: As a member, you’ll join a community of like-minded professionals and gain access to ongoing resources and consultation for continued development.

Become part of a supportive community dedicated to enhancing youth mental health through innovative therapies.

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A special thank you to our partners and friends at Warm Springs Care Farm, One by One Foundation and Imagine That Farms, for providing us with a peaceful, safe, and supportive environment where we can practice our skills and offer our clients a place of serenity, growth, and healing.

The Warm Springs Care Farm is therapeutic family care farm that offers a variety of volunteer programs such as animal care, Barn Club, art workshops, nature time, therapist trainings, and yoga/movement/breath, offered free at the farm to small groups and individuals.

Their Mission is to improve the mental health and well-being of families with restorative care farm and nature-based, therapeutic experiences. We promote volunteerism and create shared experiences outside for people to connect to nature, heal and grow

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The One By One Foundation is dedicated to healing the Minds, Hearts, and Spirits of those in need through sponsoring education and self-sustaining businesses in Ghana, West Africa, providing animal assisted activities for healing in Idaho, and the teaching and practice of Kriya Yoga meditation.

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Imagine That Farms offer therapeutic care farm experiences for individuals, families and groups and provides a variety of hands-on learning experiences for mental and emotional well being.

Their intention is to provide spaces where people, animals and the earth intersect and exchange energy for mutual enrichment.

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Thanks to a generous grant from KeyBank, we’re able to expand Farm Care Therapy Training—not just for our clinicians, but for communities across Idaho.

We are proud to be an approved continuing education provider, enabling us to offer CE hours not only to our own clinicians but also to professionals throughout the community. Mental health matters in Idaho, and we’re committed to supporting the growth and development of those who serve our communities..