What is Unbridled Healing?
Spend time with the herd while you learn to enact healthy boundaries, find balance, embrace self-compassion, and explore leadership through the lenses of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Unbridled™ programs empower individuals, groups, and teams with increased self-confidence by enhancing the skills necessary to become effective and influential leaders in their own lives and in their communities.
Based on the belief that everyone has potential for growth and healing regardless of their background or experiences, through our program, you will build on important skills of communication, problem-solving, and decision-making, as well as explore the confidence needed to put those skills into practice.
By participating in Unbridled™ corporate programs, your team will leave with a sense of ownership and a belief in their own abilities. They’ll learn to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and to use those insights to become better leaders. And most importantly, they’ll learn to support and encourage each other, building a strong, confident, and empowered team.
What does Unbridled Healing offer?
Equine-assisted (un-mounted) programs for:
Individuals- Groups
- Organizations
What subjects does the Unbridled Healing team cover?
- Compassion Fatigue & Professional Burnout
- Trauma and PTSD
- Leadership Development
- Confidence Building After Injury or Accident
- Performance Anxiety
- Reclaiming Your Voice
- Team Building
- Workplace Wellness
- Self-esteem
- Work-Life Harmony
- Programs for Women and Girls
- And more!!!
*No horse experience required!
**All programs require closed toe shoes, sunscreen, bug spray, and water bottle
Investment:
- 45-50 minute Equine Assisted Psychotherapy or Walk & Talk session:
- Individual: $175
- Family (minimum 2 maximum 6): $215
- 1/2 day programs: contact for information
- Full day programs: contact for information
- Customized programs: contact for information
Horses are amazing.
People will sometimes ask what makes Equine Assisted Psychotherapy different from Equine Assisted Learning
Some folks say they offer equine programs that are therapeutic in nature because horses themselves are therapeutic to be around – true – but those are not actually therapy programs.
Please be mindful that Equine Assisted Learning (which can be an awesome personal/professional development modality) is NOT therapy and should not be used for PTSD, anxiety, depression, etc… ANY of these should be approached from a therapeutic perspective with the presence of a qualified & licensed mental health professional.
That’s not to say that people who are struggling with specific mental health concerns would not benefit from being around horses if there isn’t a mental health professional present, just that it is be ill-advised to promote any program as being designed to support those populations (1st responders, veterans, youth with anxiety, those living with depression, etc…) without the guidance and intervention of a mental health professional.
When working with vulnerable populations, it is so easy to slip into the zone of therapy without even realizing it and well-intentioned but unqualified facilitators run the risk of causing greater harm to the clients. Even in a corporate training or group development setting, powerful stuff can come to the surface that requires a professional’s understanding of how to assist the person in the moment. Qualified mental health professionals have the specialized training to do this – to intervene in appropriate ways at appropriate times without causing more harm.
Please consider the standards of the models we follow:
“ STANDARDS”
TEAM APPROACH
All Equine sessions involve a team that includes a licensed credentialed Mental Health Professional (always), qualified Equine Specialist (as required), Horses and Clients.
GROUND-BASED
No horseback riding is involved. No horsemanship is taught. Horses are allowed to be Horses.
SOLUTION ORIENTED
The basis of this work is a belief that all clients have the best solutions for themselves when given the opportunity to discover them. These focused experiences allow clients to explore, problem-solve, overcome challenges, and discover.
When you attend a program offered by Unbridled Healing ™ you will be working with both an equine specialist with thousands of hours of equine experience and a qualified mental health professional trained in various therapeutic interventions.
Under our therapeutic model, both a registered and credentialed Mental Health Professional and a certified Equine Specialist work together collaboratively at all times to assure clients get the therapeutic attention and support they need as they make life changes. Our professionals have trained in various equine assisted services approaches including Equusoma(R) Eagala, Arenas for Change (ARCH), and the TA Method.
The most effective work happens on the ground.
This model involves no riding or horsemanship, making it both safe and effective. Clients work directly with Horse(s) face-to-face on the same footing. This ground level work enables clients to better perceive the Horse(s)
WHY HORSES?
INTELLIGENT PREY ANIMALS
To evade predators, horses have evolved to be extremely sensitive to their environment. They instinctively analyze and react to our body language and other nonverbal cues providing us with valuable feedback and insights for other areas of our lives.
LARGE AND POWERFUL
It’s hard to ignore a horse with their size and presence. We can’t just control a powerful horse. Approaching horses helps us reflect how we approach our relationships and how we can face other big or overwhelming things in our lives.
HERD ANIMALS WITH DISTINCT PERSONALITIES
Horses are social animals with distinct personalities, attitudes, and moods. They could be stubborn or they could be playful. In other words, horses are a lot like us.
