Come try a different type of mental health therapy… with horses, outside & in metro Atlanta!
Come try k-equine RealTalk sessions!
Individual sessions are a new offering at Chastain Horse Park and can serve as stand-alone therapy for adults or supplemental therapy for adolescents.
k-equine RealTalk: Brush. Breathe. Be.
Individual sessions for adults
k-equine RealTalk: Brush it off
Individual sessions for adolescents
All individual sessions are 50-minutes and are led by licensed or associate licensed mental health therapists who are dually credentialed with certification in conducting equine assisted psychotherapy. Each clinician holds an equine specialist in mental health and learning (ESMHL) certification from PATH International. Sessions are outdoors in the horse paddocks and all therapeutic work is done on the ground next to and around the horses. There is no horseback riding and thus no horse experience is needed to participate!
The horses are carefully selected for mental health therapy sessions from the therapeutic horse herd who live at Chastain Horse Park. In this horse herd you will find mares, geldings, quarter horses, retired thoroughbred racehorses, retired show and performance horses, rescue horses, paints, warmbloods. There is even a miniature horse who although small, is chocked full of personality! Each individual session takes place at Chastain Horse Park in an outdoor horse paddock, which serves as a mini arena for the session activities.
“The horses and their interactions, both with the human client and with each other, become a symbolic reflection of what is happening in a client’s life.”
~ Fundamentals of The Eagala Model, 9th edition training manual
Equine assisted psychotherapy is based in “the doing” rather than in the talking.
This type of animal-assisted, experiential approach to therapy is based in “the doing” rather than in the talking of traditional office therapy. The human-horse connection is also an important part of the therapy, creating emotion in the here and now. The outdoor setting provides a ripe environment to uncover new awareness about things like relational patterns. The therapeutic work tends to dive deeper and quicker with new insights uncovered after just a few sessions.
Current equine assisted psychotherapy individual sessions are open to adults (18+) and adolescents (6th – 12th grade).We affirm the inherent value and dignity of all persons; we are purposefully inclusive across race, ethnicity, gender, identity, religion, spirituality, and sexual orientation. Mental health treatment plans are customized for each client in therapy.
Adults may enter equine assisted psychotherapy as stand-alone therapy or supplemental therapy. Adolescents must currently be seeing a primary therapist to be eligible for equine assisted psychotherapy. Cost for adult and adolescent individual equine assisted psychotherapy is $285/ 50-minute session.
Please contact us for more information.
