Unbridle Your Power is a life coaching and psychotherapy service partnering people with horses for therapeutic healing purposes. The experience ideally offers clients an opportunity for experiential learning with a trauma informed, non-judgemental, unconditionally accepting and emotionally regulated equine partner. The service is supported by internationally certified and experienced equine facilitated practitioners in a physically safe and secure environment with a proven therapeutic process framework backed up by published research. The evidence collected from equine therapy research suggests high rates of success particularly in cases of PTS, depression and anxiety. It compliments talk and body based therapies with experiential learning and nature based components.
Unbridle Your Power offers:
- Private sessions
- Group workshops
- Corporate team building and leadership events
- Online coaching and professional development
What Unbridle Your Power does offer:
- Your session will be supported by an internationally certified and experienced person, specifically educated in the field of equine facilitation.
- Your session will be supported by someone who has completed 4+ years of full time rigorous in person study, with training and teaching components, in the USA.
- Your session will be supported by someone who has qualifications and training in both life coaching and trauma informed therapeutic psychotherapy.
- Non pathologizing language
- Trauma informed care and consideration
- An environment free of labels (such as "prey", "predator", "disorder, "disease")
- Genuine mutual experiences with horses as partners
- Be seen, heard, understood, belong
- Freedom to explore whatever interests you
- Freedom to create your own relationships with horses, and yourself
- Freedom to be yourself and express your own needs
- Freedom to ask for what you want
- Freedom to decline to participate in any offering or suggestion
- Freedom to shape the session to serve your own intentions and desires
- A chance to experience powerful and genuine partnership with authentic connection at the core
What Unbridle Your Power does not offer:
- Task focused horsemanship based activities
- False claims or mis-representation of what equine therapy is and/or how and why it works
- False claims or mis-representation of equine therapy training/qualifications and skill levels
- An equine therapy experience where the facilitator has no training in the equine facilitated or therapeutic field at all, or less than one years worth of training in those fields
- The use of language and labels such as "prey" and "predator" or "disorder" or "disease"
- Pathologizing of horses or people
- A step by step lesson structure with pre-arranged activities for you to work through and complete within a set timeframe
- A schedule or list of things you "have" to do or "accomplish" during the session
- Pressure to achieve an external objective during the session
- An experience of needing to be anything other than who you are in that moment
- Opportunities to control, coerce or dominate yourself, another person or a horse
- The need to control your emotions, be strong or be small in order to "fit in" and "get along"