Harnessing the Power of Equine Assisted Counseling: Adding Animal Assisted Therapy to Your Practice

This book will help licensed professional counselors incorporate Equine Assisted Counseling (EAC) into their practices, even those who have little prior experience working with horses. It provides a strong research foundation for understanding the efficacy of equine assisted interventions and the potentially powerful impact that a horse can have in creating a new counseling dynamic. Chapters address using horses to help clients dealing with various traumas and abuse, anxiety, depression, atypical behaviors, and social skills and communication issues. Additionally, a chapter by the internationally renowned "horse whisperer" Pat Parelli offers a look at EAC from the horse’s point of view and demonstrates developing a relationship with a therapy horse in a positive, safe, and respectful manner. Counselors will find this a valuable resource for understanding and utilizing EAC as a new resource in their own practices, as will students seeking to learn about this innovative approach.

• The Clinical Practice of Equine-Assisted Therapy
• The Art of Facilitation, with 28 Equine Assisted Activities
• Transforming Therapy through Horses: Case Stories Teaching the EAGALA Model in Action
• Beyond Words: The Healing Power of Horses
• The Listening Heart: The Limbic Path Beyond Office Therapy
• Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma
• Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy and Learning: The Human-Equine Relational Development (HERD) Approach
• Equine-Assisted Mental Health Interventions
• Soul Recovery UPDATED: equine assisted activities for healing from abuse by others, loss of others & loss of self
• The Equine-Assisted Therapy Workbook