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What We Offer

Accredited Nature-Based Interventions for Primary Care

Your Forest Footsteps offers structured, evidence-based Green Social Prescribing interventions designed to support adults experiencing mild-to-moderate mental health challenges, chronic stress, social isolation, and anxiety.

We provide a non-clinical, therapeutic pathway that connects patients deeply with nature to improve physiological and psychological wellbeing. We operate across Calderdale (Halifax to Todmorden) and East Lancashire (Burnley).

    • Intervention Format: Structured 2-hour guided Forest Therapy sessions.

    • Group Management: Strictly capped at a 1:10 practitioner-to-participant ratio to ensure clinical safety, personal space, and high-quality engagement.

    • Referral Suitability: Ideal for patients struggling with work-related burnout, mild-to-moderate depression, loneliness, or those transitioning out of acute mental health care who require community-based stabilisation.

  • We understand that patient safety and data compliance are paramount when referring out of primary care. Your Forest Footsteps operates under a strict professional framework:

    • Accreditation: Fully certified Forest Therapy Practitioner trained via We Are Lightbox on their 4-month, Level 2 course. This curriculum is explicitly aligned with the Complementary Medical Association (CMA) standards.

    • Safeguarding Expertise: Directed by a former Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and qualified primary school teacher with over 21 years of experience managing vulnerable individuals at complex intersections of life.

    • Legal & Risk Compliance: Backed by a formal Law Degree (LL.B), ensuring absolute adherence to local authority guidelines, health and safety legislation, and meticulous site-specific risk assessments.

    • Insurance: Public Liability Insurance (available instantly upon request).

  • Your Forest Footsteps is a registered commercial sole trader. We do not require voluntary sector grant funding to deliver our services. We are fully set up for direct NHS and local authority purchasing via:

    • Spot Purchasing (Per-patient referral invoicing).

    • Block Booking Contracts (Commissioning a full 6-to-8 week cohort for your specific PCN or practice).

    • Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) or Social Care direct payments.

  • If you are a GP, Practice Nurse, Care Coordinator, or Social Prescribing Link Worker looking to refer a patient, request a service outline sheet, or organize a brief introductory presentation for your clinical team, please get in touch directly:

    • Lead Practitioner: Sarah Parker

    • Direct Email: sarahp26forest@gmail.com

    • Phone: 07592447745

    • Location Base: Todmorden (Serving Calderdale & East Lancashire)

  • "Lovely to be back in nature with some like minded people. We know this stuff is good for us and often we forget to do it or make time, especially when its the day job!"

    Jason

  • "The invitations were perfect guidance to focus your attention but still make space for individual exploration and interpretation."

    Bethany

  • " It makes you take time to reflect on the beauty of nature that surrounds us, if we just give it a chance."

    Sal

  • “It was really nice to go out and experience things, especially sight and hearing, as I feel I am often disappointed or disturbed by those senses, as I get older, feeling weaker in day to day life but they didn't feel weaker in the woods.”

    Paul

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Weekly, monthly or other frequency of sessions are available. Block bookings can take place at times between 8.30am - 8pm

During longer daylight hours can work with up to 30 (3 groups of 10) adults over the day. Sessions are 2 hours long.

During shorter daylight hour months (Mid October - April) the sessions will be a maximum of 90 minutes.