My special therapy practice integrates my professional counselling skills with the tranquillity of a beautiful setting and the healing presence of animals. Working with both dogs and horses, I facilitate the remarkable ability of these animals to connect with, and gently reflect back, underlying human emotions in a non-judgemental and supportive way.
As well as providing conventional counselling, I offer equine-facilitated psychotherapy (an in-depth form of equine-assisted therapy) as a more experiential form of therapy. Through participating in, and reflecting on, therapeutic activities that have meaning for their lives, clients can learn about themselves. They can practice different ways of coping with, responding to, and changing behaviour, relationships and situations, which they can then transfer to their everyday lives. My aim as a counsellor is to offer clients a safe, confidential space in which to build a warm, trusting, and secure relationship. This creates the right conditions for people to make positive changes in their lives, or find healthy ways of adapting to circumstances that cannot be changed. |
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