Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

Horses have an astonishing capability to influence a human and touch on an individual’s life that needs attention, and assist with healing while being free of judgement.  By careful therapeutic approaches, combined with connecting with the horse, helps facilitate individual change by gentle healing.   Focus related to trauma, mental health, and related individual needs where life resolutions and wellness occur.  Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is a specialized practice that supports experiences that encourage personal discoveries to help individuals on a new path to enhanced wellness.

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy at Rising Winds concentrates on a combined model of treatment, working with a specialized therapist and horses to help discover how to bring about positive change in their lives. 

Working with the horses as their partner, becomes a safe place to ask questions, where clients are supported to help find the right answers for them. Individuals are guided to establish new goals, and ways to overcome obstacles and personal barriers in their lives.  The horse, individual and therapist become a team, working toward life transformations.  

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy works mostly with individuals and families where we think of our clients as learners, learning about themselves through the eyes of the horse.

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is also used in team building to help influence, build and understand human behavior in the work place and construct a more cooperative work environment by using the horses as natural and neutral instruments to bring about change in groups of individuals.   

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is for all ages of life and is highly regarded as a method of enhancement in the lives of individuals that enrich their wellbeing and personal self.