Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy
A Christian Psychobiological Attachment Approach
Attachment
Attachment activates physiology with 90% of the brain formed by age three.
Our Senses
The Somatic Nervous System has two parts, Sensory and Motor.
A Psychobiological Framework and the Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory (PVT) a scientific perspective created by Dr. Stephen Porges, grounded in neurophysiology.
Safety
The Central Nervous System (CNS - brain and spinal cord) detect safety through facial expressions, a person’s eyes, the tone of their voice and their posture/body movements.
Trauma
Trauma is pervasive in our society, the earlier we can help people in life (especially children) the better chances they have of health and wellbeing.
Horses: Trauma-Informed EAP
Horses read our nervous system and our unconscious motivations that illuminates the truth of who we really are.
A Christian Perspective
Secure attachment may be found in our Good and Perfect Heavenly Father that made your eye color, voice and heart. “For it was you whom created my inward parts, you knit me together in my mother’s womb…Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began,” Psalm 139:13 and 16, CSB.
Horses Helping People
People ask me how I got started in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy-here's how the Lord led me to counseling with horses.