Children & Youth

Children and adolescents find a safe space here to explore emotions, build resilience, and develop healthy relationships, all within the nurturing environment of our equine-assisted programs.

With the help of their horse partners, young people can learn to process and express their thoughts and feelings, as well as regulate emotions, at their own pace and developmental level.

We incorporate nature, play, creative expression, sensory-motor strategies, curiosity, and exploration into our sessions to provide a holistic, mind-body healing experience.

Our services are attachment and trauma-informed, and we strive to include parents and caregivers in the therapy process as much as possible.

Benefits

Equine Therapy can help children & youth:

Decrease acting-out behaviors.
Develop healthy coping strategies.
Build frustration tolerance and problem-solving skills.
Take responsibility for personal actions and decisions.
Experience positive (safe, genuine, nurturing) interaction and attachment with significant others (therapist, caregivers, siblings, horses).
Understand their arousal level and build self-regulation capacity.
Understand when they feel safe and unsafe and what to do about it.
Ask for help and rely on the relationship instead of themselves.