Horses are gifted teachers and amazing facilitators in the work of human development, emotional healing, and spiritual growth. These intelligent, sensitive creatures instantly respond to changes in our behavior, offering constant feedback for our actions.

Equine Guided Counselling requires no previous experience with horses and involves interacting with the horse on the ground in a safe setting with an experienced facilitator. Through specially designed activities, we can deepen our awareness of personal issues, underlying feelings, and areas of tension that limit our ability to reach our true potential. Interaction with the horse includes many different activities such as handling, grooming, or moving the horse around a pen with just our body.

A tremendous boost in self-esteem and confidence comes from learning how to establish boundaries and direct a thousand-pound creature through mental focus, creative visualization, and clarity of intent. These skills, which can be difficult to teach in a conventional counseling session, can be applied in personal life, relationships, career, and parenting. Even a single session can have life changing effects as we open to our true potential.

Horses are incapable of pretense; their reactions are unconditional and honest. Working with horses provides opportunities to learn critical life skills such as trust, respect, honesty, and communication. Horses use mostly non-vocal communication and are in-tune with human behavior. They ask us to be aware of our surroundings at all times and teach us self-awareness.