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Willow Equine provides conscious approaches to counseling, leadership development and wellness with the aid of horses, aimed at reducing the impact of trauma.
Are You:
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Desiring clarity in life, perhaps looking at what is NOT working?
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Allowing yourself the time in an emotionally safe space to be curious?
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Excited to step forward on a deepened & accelerated Path to Healing?
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Ready to engage in an innovative and effective form of healing?
Willow Equine provides counseling services to adults and teenagers dealing with an array of challenges. Our skilled therapists have extensive training in trauma. Together with the horses, our client's stories unfold through the models of Narrative Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the Enneagram.
Healing looks different for each person. Clients discover there are many options on their Path to Healing at Willow Equine!
How it Helps:
Experiences with horses promotes more effective change with more rapid growth as compared to traditional clinical and psycho-educational approaches. The experiential nature of working with horses, engages clients in their own healing/learning process. Clients reach solutions squarely on their own terms. Time spent with the horses is proven to be the most powerful approach to helping clients achieve and sustain personal and professional growth!
We customize sessions to our clients' intentions, meeting them where they are. The horses take what is held inside of us and translate it into tangible experiences. The horses move freely in their pastures as they interact with our clients. As a result, clients have a purposeful space to project, reflect, and form connections. Riding and horsemanship are beneficial yet obscure the primary mechanism which makes this work so effective – the horse’s natural and unfiltered responses. Their unbiased response offers a learning opportunity since it reflects the client's actions, ideas, and emotions.
What to Expect:
Sessions at the farm offer a unique, intentional, hands-on experience. A licensed mental health practitioner, a certified equine specialist, and the horses are in every session. The professional facilitators ensure physical and emotional safety, set up experiences, and facilitate the learning process.
To start each session, clients are asked about any reflections from the previous week and what their intention is for the time. Clients choose what horses and what space they want to work with/in. The professional facilitators will move to observe the interactions and behaviors of the horses, which may be discussed during the debrief. Clients discover personal reflections and insights during the debriefing.
Horses are Healing for the Mind, Body & Spirit. Mental, Emotional, Physical and Spiritual Healing.
