Healing With Horses
I am certified in EAGALA work. This is an experiential therapeutic intervention that is empirically-based and is proven to help individuals, couples, and families work through trauma, communication challenges, PTSD, anxiety, stress, addiction and depression. Horses are metaphors for the human experience and how each individual interprets the herd explains how they see themselves in the human constellation.
Horses are fight or flight animals that rarely fight. They are sensitive and alert and very intune to the animals' biological processes around them. In a herd, horses use non-verbal language and sensory tools to communicate and read each other. It is with these sensory tools and non-verbal language that they can read humans.
When we do work with horses, all the work is done on the ground with the horses front and center, deliberately unhindered and never ridden, and allowed to interact with the client as they wish. This creates the space for the client, with the support of the professional facilitator, to reflect, project, and make deep connections.
Approaching horses helps us reflect how we approach our relationships and how we can face other big or overwhelming things in our lives. Since the solutions are personally experienced in conjunction with intellectual understanding, they tend to be deeper, more profound, and longer lasting.
Equine therapy may be exactly what you need. Let’s plan on it.