Counseling Services at Reins of Life
*A note from the Director: Counseling Services are temporarily paused at Reins of Life and are projected to resume in the fall of 2025. If you or someone you love is seeking counseling, please feel free to call us at 706.491.9764 to explore other therapeutic programs available at Reins of Life.
Reins of Life offers a treatment modality called Equine Assisted Psychotherapy which is an experiential form of therapy where horses are involved in the sessions. “Experiential” means that you will be involved in hands-on experiences with the horses designed to reflect things going on in your life. The process is not always about interacting with the treatment team, although that will happen at times, but is about providing you the opportunity to experience, explore, problem-solve, discover, be creative, gain insight and experience practical applications of what you are learning in the moment. The process is about “doing” along with the “talking.”
Why Horses?
There are several reasons we choose to use horses in this work, but primarily it is due to their nature as a social and prey animal. Because of their nature, they have an extraordinary ability to read our nonverbal communication – our body language – and pick up on messages we are sending which we are not always conscious we are doing. With this, they start responding to us in familiar ways, reminding us of other people and things in our life. It is through this that horses become metaphors (symbols) providing us the opportunity to work on ourselves in relation to those aspects of our lives.
Horses do not know our past, education, gender, race or other labels we may apply to ourselves and each other. They are in the moment and can be a part of this relationship without the biases we humans put on each other. This provides even more value in the insight they can provide us about ourselves.
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