Counseling and Equine Assisted Learning Services
Services Overview
Equine Assisted Mentoring
To provide a safe place for learning and positive relationships through the act of serving others and by interactions with the therapeutic animals on site. Participants will receive immediate feedback on how their positive contributions have an impact on their environment. Participants will learn to build trust and communicate with animals by setting boundaries and applying effective strategies of communication and relationship skills building. Participants will learn immediate cause and effect to their choices in a social setting and will receive in-the-moment strategies to manage impulses, thinking processes and challenges.
Life Coaching
This goal is to provide a safe place for learning and positive relationships through the act of parents receiving healing and understanding of their own needs. Parents will learn strategies to best support their children by learning skills to improve their own emotional regulation and tuning into their physical reactions/responses. Participants will receive immediate feedback on how their own health & wellness has an impact on their family structure, physical responses, and neurological functioning. Participants will learn to build trust, develop anger management skills, decision making skills and communication strategies by setting boundaries and applying effective interventions that can transfer to the parent-child relationship.
Participants will learn immediate cause and effect to their choices in a social setting and will learn in-the-moment strategies to manage impulses, thinking processes, and challenges.
Mentoring and Life Coaching Objectives:
1. Improve communication skills in relationships with others
2. Increase confidence through the completion of challenging tasks
3. Develop and maintain a broader perspective on life experiences
4. Reduce pain, trauma related responses on a neurological level, and gain awareness into how the body is connected to the mind
Counseling Services Offered
EQUINE THERAPY
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) focuses on mental health and behavioral changes. EAP provides immediate cause and effect situations, encourages change from dysfunctional patterns to successful ones, challenges clients in a non-threatening manner, and rapidly breaks down defense barriers.
In contrast, EAP is similar to Equine Assisted Learning (EAL), but the focus with EAL is on learning and educational goals such as improved sales for a company, leadership skills, advancing educational knowledge for a school group, team building, or resiliency training. Both approaches require a licensed mental health professional and a trained equine specialist in order to work as a team and provide brief, yet intense interventions. All equine-related sessions are conducted by a two-person team. The mental health professional remains more focused on the individual’s behaviors while the equine specialist remains more in-tune to the horse during the session.
INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY COUNSELING
Individual and family counseling is a process through which you can work one-on-one or with family members with a licensed therapist. The staff at Horse and Soul Counseling assist with providing a safe, caring, and confidential environment. This will give you the opportunity to explore your feelings and beliefs while working through challenging or influential memories. Healing is set up in a way that allows you to work towards desired change that you determine is important. Individual and family counseling is held at Horse and Soul Counseling in an outdoor natural setting. Individual counseling can be conducted with or without the integration of horses.
GROUP COUNSELING
Our goal is to use a solution-focused approach to empower our community to develop social connections within the group. Topics may include strengthening relationships, communication skills, problem solving skills and strategies, interpersonal skills, hygiene and personal care, impulsivity and emotional reactions, safety and community participation (includes internet safety), and conflict resolution and boundary setting. Mental health matters!
Are you interested in participating in Equine Assisted Mentoring, life coaching, equine or 1-1 talk therapy? Are you interested in group, family counseling, or talk mentoring?
Contact H&SC today by email or phone to get started.
we’re here to help heal.
