Meet your Practitioner Guide

Ashley Park is a Holistic Wellness & Reproductive Practitioner  and Nature Therapist with training as a Child & Youth Worker,  Herbalist, Reflexologist, Reiki Master,  and Certified Forest Therapy Guide with the Global Institute of Forest Therapy. 

 

With over 20 years of working with vulnerable individuals in Mental Health, Addiction, Corrections, and Development Services organizations with children, youth , & adults, Ashley has experienced the systemic and cultural barriers to the needs of the community. In 2014 she began bringing  concepts of Ecopsychology and nature-based techniques into her work. 

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After experiencing a traumatic brain injury, workplace trauma, & burnout as a front line worker herself, Ashley is inspired to support others with sharing the tools of nature therapy with others as reliable, accessible, and free resources available to everyone!

 

Ashley founded Forest Therapy Elgin in 2020 as Elgin Counties first provider of Forest Therapy to the public and corporate sectors and has had the pleasure of working with organizations such as the Military Family Resource Centre & Stable Grounds providing front line staff experience the therapeutic value of nature therapy. 

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She has recently opened her doors and shifted from 'Park Botanicals' to a private in-home practice, Ashley Park Wellness, offering individualized services custom to her client's constitutional needs. With her energetic elemental worldview, she is able to assess and understand imbalances within a person and guide them through lifestyle changes to begin to bring balance back to the body, mind, and spirit of the individual through single sessions or ongoing support. 

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​She was born and raised among the sumacs on hillsides in St Thomas Ontario and exploring the sand cliffs of Lake Erie and hopes to support others in healing the Earth, and themselves through nature. 

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