the team

I didn’t know it at the time, but my journey toward becoming a Forest Therapy Guide and Recovery Coach began over 20 years ago—when I first stepped into my own healing. Through my experience with addiction and recovery, I came to understand something sacred: nature isn’t just a backdrop to healing. It is a healing presence. A teacher. A mirror. A sanctuary.

In 2020, I became a certified Forest Therapy Guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. I’ve been guiding walks ever since—but my relationship with the land reaches back much further. The natural world has always spoken to me. It holds wisdom, solace, and an unshakable rhythm that gently reminds us: we belong.

 As a Recovery Coach (certified through CCAR), I weave in somatic tools, land-based practices, and nervous system support informed by my training in Neuro-Somatic Intelligence (NSI). I know firsthand that recovery is hard-won—but it doesn’t have to be punishing. It can be spacious. It can be slow. It can be sacred.

I walk with women who are ready to move beyond survival and into something more real—something rooted. I offer Forest Therapy walks, 1:1 recovery support, group circles, and practitioner gatherings in both WG Jones State Forest and on the land I steward just outside of Centerville, Texas—The Untamed Gathering Place, a private sanctuary for embodied healing and deep reconnection.

If you’re longing to come home to yourself—to be seen, held, and heard without having to perform or prove—you are welcome here.

Recovery for the whole of who you are.

Beyond just the words, into your body, onto the land.

Paola will lead group walks, special walks for kids and families with ADD-ADHD, AUTISM, and provide guided experiences in Spanish for our Spanish-speaking community.

As a Biologist, Paola has spent over two decades studying, teaching, and advocating for conservation and ecological restoration. When she made The Woodlands her home, she has collaborated with Texas A&M Forest Service for almost 5 years on community outreach and preservation projects. She is a credentialed health coach who graduated with a specialty in integrative nutrition from the New York Institute of Nutrition, and she is an ANFT-Certified Forest Therapy Guide. 

Her intense love of the natural world and every form of life has equipped Paola with the insight, empathy, and initiative to seek new ways to help the planet heal—one person, one plant, and one action at a time. She is currently an expert advisor for the Bogotá Botanical Gardens, contributing to Health & Nature Research. Paola believes that where love, biology, and nature converge is where we find the key to restoring human and planetary health.