Equine Therapy
Why Equine Therapy?
- If you are feeling like you want to create change but may be intimidated by the idea of counselling, the gentle nature of horses can help bridge the gap.
- Equine therapy offers experiential learning and bottom-up processing rather then the more traditional (thinking) top-down processing.
- Horses are sentient mystical beings with the ability to show up to sessions in a healing way.
- Equine therapy may help increase your understanding of yourself as well as understanding of your emotions.
- Finding new resources in your tool box for coping with emotions.
- Increase the time each day that you experience being grounded and calm.
Grief and Loss
- Your grief and loss journey is individual.
- Your emotions are normal.
- Grief and Loss feelings can be experienced with many different life events.
- You can experience grief and loss with the loss of a pet, a job or health condition.
- Feeling like it is hard to make decisions and like your brain is in a fog is normal.
- Building new resources for your tool box so that you can get your brain functioning again.
Trauma and EMDR
- Learning about how trauma affects the brain is the first step.
- Feeling like you are walking on egg shells or waiting for the other shoe to drop are experiences that people who have experienced trauma can resonate with.
- The brain reacts in certain ways to traumas to help keep you safe at the time. Those coping strategies may not be the most helpful in your everyday life.
- Increase the time each day that you experience being grounded and calm.
- EMDR is a type of therapy that can help process the traumatic experience resulting in increased functioning.
Transition from Sport
- You have obtained skills during sports that can be transferred outside of sport.
- Skills such as hard work, resilience and teamwork that are learned during sport and are valuable in the work force.
- Increase understanding of your emotions during the transition.
- Transitioning out of sport can feel like a grief and loss.
- Finding new purpose and meaning.
Connect with nature and yourself today.
Contact us for a free 15 minute phone consultation and see if there’s a good fit for each other.