What is Equine-Assisted Counseling?
Heartland Equine-Assisted Counseling
Heartland Equine-Assisted Counseling integrates evidence-based mental health treatments while clients are observing and connecting with horses. The interaction with horses provides feedback and mirrors the client’s emotions and behaviors during treatment, allowing for a deeper self-awareness, grounding and mindfulness practice, and a tangible shift of perspective for the client.
During Equine-Assisted Counseling sessions, the Licensed Mental Health Counselor (and PATH Certified Equine Specialist in Mental Health & Learning) facilitate experiential activities with horses, based on the client’s treatment goals. These activities offer tangible experiences for clients to receive bio-psycho-social feedback from the horse while practicing client’s nervous system regulation and coping skills. The client and therapist then process the experience with the horse within the context of mental health treatment modalities and goals thus establishing self-reflection, expression, insight, and shifts in cognitive perspective.
Services:
Evidence Based modalities such as CBT, DBT skills, Grief & Loss, coping with medical diagnoses incorporating horses. Heartland is a PATH,intl. accredited center.
The EMDRIA Approved EquiLateral Protocol was created by Sarah Jenkins. EquiLateral is EMDR therapy that incorporates the horse into the session.
Equine-Assisted Groups
Group sessions are custom focused for either traditional equine-assisted sessions or as Equine-Assisted EMDR Phase II. Please call for pricing.
Attention EMDR Therapists!!
Do you have a client who is struggling and may benefit from additional Phase II Resourcing??
THE HORSES CAN HELP!!
Therapists may refer their clients for
PHASE II ONLY Equine-Assisted EMDR sessions, where they establish resources with the horses, and return to you for continued processing!