• Children
• Teenagers
• Adults
• Families
• Groups

To Learn and Improve Upon:

Relapse Prevention and Education - Horses are one of the World's best-kept secrets. We come to them tired, discouraged, ill, and confused. They send us home refreshed, renewed, and full of life and hope for tomorrow. By just being themselves, they can bring an emotional and mental healing that other forms of therapy cannot.

Behavioral Modification - Horses don't judge or discriminate, but experience emotions simply as information which creates an environment of acceptance and empowerment as a person works through various issues, i.e., anger management, uncertainty, passivity, etc.

Creative Thinking - Being with a horse helps clients sharpen their present awareness while the reaction of the horse to what the client presents helps to cultivate self-awareness.

Assertiveness - Working as a partner with the horse allows the therapist a chance to role-model safe, respectful, yet firm and consistent limit-setting.

Relationship Building - Addicts must deal with raw emotions and be honest with themselves; horses take this one step further by enabling the addict to be honest in relationships as well.

Self-Esteem - Observing an animal's interactions with humans can reveal many internal issues that otherwise would go unnoticed.

Problem Solving - Helps develop skills applicable to real-life problems to better understand their daily lives and cope with difficulties.

Leadership - Participants learn about themselves and others by participating in activities with the horse, a dynamic and powerful living being, using skills to bring the client to self-acceptance and honoring the true self. Horses validate the true self, promoting exploration of feelings and behaviors.

Teamwork - Because the horse "mirrors" body language and feelings back to a client instead of the client being reflected through a therapist, they see and experience themselves through the reactions of a thousand pound being. The size of this mirror makes it a powerful reflection, which creates a situation that requires us as humans to rethink our approach and try to communicate in a different manner.

Positive Attitude - Horses provide unconditional positive regard. They are unencumbered by ego issues and do not care if you are small for your age, have crooked teeth, have no friends, have messy hair, or failed your spelling test.

Non-Verbal Communication - Observing an animal's interactions with humans can reveal many internal issues that otherwise would go unnoticed. The horse offers immediate, unbiased, non-verbal feedback and does so in a big way