Meet The Team

Nadine Mazzola (she/her) has been a Certified Forest Therapy Guide since 2015 based in Acton, MA. She founded her guiding business, New England Nature and Forest Therapy, in 2016. Nadine guides regularly and has formed partnerships with multiple organizations, She also does speaking engagements on forest therapy and occasional consulting with a variety of organizations. Nadine has also been a trainer/mentor with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and has a business and marketing background spanning twenty-five years.

In 2019, Nadine added award-winning author to her list of accomplishments. She wrote the book “Forest Bathing with Your Dog”, which won four awards. The book combines the practice of forest therapy with our practice of walking our dogs and elevates the depth and meaning of both. She has been featured on PBS Windows to the Wild twice, ABC’s Chronicle and in the Boston Globe and Boston Magazine. In addition to Nadine’s business and marketing background, she was also formerly a world professional pocket billiards player competing on the Women's Professional Billiard Tour. Nadine has been guiding forest therapy walks since 2015. Also, an artist, she facilitates expressive arts classes often incorporating elements of forest therapy throughout.

Tam Willey (they/them) is a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, trainer, mentor, and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts and founder of Toadstool Walks, a guiding practice based in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Tam explores themes of belonging and attention through story and nature immersive experiences, facilitating ways of being together that support a culture of reciprocity and relational kinship. Tam’s guiding practice is informed by their background as a local handy person, children’s woodworking instructor, custodian, skateboarder, musician, artist, mentor, love for outdoor adventure, and 1st hand Queer life experience as community advocate serving and uplifting LGBTQ+ youth & adults through BAGLY (Boston's Alliance of LGBTQ Youth), The Theater Offensive’s True Colors out Youth Theater, Black and Pink (Queer & Trans prison abolitionist organization), The Venture Out Project, and Wild Mountain Retreats. Tam guides ongoing community programming in partnership with The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Speak For The Trees, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Boston Harbor Now, Peabody Essex Museum, local colleges and universities, and more. Tam holds CPR, First Aid, Wilderness First Aid, and Mental Health First Aid certifications.  Learn more about Tam at ToadstoolWalks.com