Counseling Services

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Everyone has the innate ability to solve their own problems. The role of the equine assisted psychotherapy team is to provide guidance that assists the client’s own process and creates lasting solutions, and horses are the perfect partner 

Where you looks changes the way you feel. With focus and precision, one can find with eye positions (Brainspots) where the trauma, anxiety, depression or behavioral problems are held in the brain. This allows the brain to process from the inside out and from the bottom up. Its goal is to bypass the conscious, neocortical thinking to access the deeper, subcortical emotional and body-based parts of the brain. 

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal. 

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of talk therapy (psychotherapy). It’s based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) but it’s specially adapted for people who experience emotions very intensely.  “Dialectical” means combining opposite ideas. DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy was developed in the 1970s by Marsha Linehan

Mindfulness is being aware of internal thoughts, feelings, and emotions, as well as external surroundings and situations, without automatic responses such as judgment or stress. Mindfulness therapy offers strategies for increased awareness. It incorporates conversations and somatic practices to help a person develop greater awareness of their thoughts and the world around them. This increased awareness helps redirect automatic responses and/or habits.

CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns. These strategies might include: 1. Learning to recognize one’s distortions in thinking that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality. 2. Gaining a better understanding of the behavior and motivation of others. 3. Using problem-solving skills to cope with difficult situations. 4. Learning to develop a greater sense of confidence in one’s own abilities.