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WHAT IT IS

  • Our approach is centered on the science-based understanding of how relationships and relational interactions shape our individual lives across our lifespan
  • It works to create connection and healthy relationships
  • It also focuses on and improves the relationship with one’s self
  • This therapy is ideal for those seeking to recover and heal from trauma, addictions, abuse, behavioral disorders, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, stress and more
  • Horses are powerful partners because they are capable of engaging in healthy, genuine connection, relationship and partnership; this relationship can be profoundly deeper than words
  • This service is available to local as well as distance clients – distance clients may choose to schedule longer sessions spread further out (i.e., half-day sessions three times over the summer) while local clients may choose to schedule shorter, more frequent sessions (i.e., 90-minute sessions weekly, biweekly, etc.); programs are individualized to accommodate client needs
    Available in Tomahawk at our horse barn located just 15 minutes north of ORGANIQUE

 

LIMITED-TIME INTRODUCTORY PRICING

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  • Initial Consultation: $250

  • Follow-Up Appointments: $200



Contact our front desk to schedule:

  • Call 715.453.2699
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Text 715.643.8664
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Email frontdesk@organiqueclinic.com

 

WHY HORSES?


Fundamentally, we teach a different way of thinking about the nature of the horse/human relationship, and we believe that the principles of how we engage with our horses should be the same as with humans and the rest of the world of which we are a part. When beliefs and underlying principles change, behaviors and techniques are organically transformed.

The principles of equine-assisted therapy, which focus on the health of the relationship first and foremost, are not only about horses, and not only about humans – they are guides to relating to the world, and our lives, at large.

Each horse is an individual. If we truly want to have healthy, connected relationships with our horses we must shift our focus from what is good for the horse to what is good for this horse.  Attunement is key, and at the core of the therapeutic work done in equine-assisted therapy.

Equine-assisted therapy partners with horses because of the reciprocal relationship that is possible. Horses are capable of engaging in healthy, genuine connection, relationship and partnership. This relationship can be profoundly deeper than words.

Within this relationship, the client and horse are responding to each other, which requires full body and brain activation and offers, when done consciously, a complete bottom-up brain experience. Horses do, indeed, invite us to clearly communicate beyond words with our entire being. They are beautifully sensitive to our internal states and energy.

The riding work can also be especially healing – when done systematically there is proprioceptive and vestibular engagement, as well as the use of the other five senses, plus relational connection and thinking. This is how we heal and build new neural pathways.

Often in trauma, particularly developmental trauma, we must go back to repair and rebuild parts of neural pathways that were missed the first time around (in fetal development, infancy and early childhood), or damaged due to trauma later in life.  From a developmental perspective, the amount of brain activation and development that is occurring when a mother or caregiver holds an infant is critical to laying the foundation of future neural networks. We can mimic this with riding work – we can connect with the one who carries us. In the womb, and later when a caregiver holds an infant, the two are responding to each other in movement, verbal and non-verbal communication, touch, emotion – it can be a full brain and body experience.

What contributes to well-being in any horse-human dyad is dynamic and dependent on what each party needs and experiences moment to moment. Well-being in relationships requires a dance of attunement. This heuristic applies equally to horse-human relationships and relationships between humans and any species, for that matter.

The phenomena of an individual’s subjective experience of intra- and interpersonal relationships has historically been viewed as a psychological matter and studied within the field of psychology. However, increasingly, the biological sciences have contributed to our understanding that this phenomenon is inextricably linked to our bodies. Our experience of relationships is not strictly psychological; it doesn’t exist solely in our minds. It occupies our brains and nervous systems – and encompasses that which occurs biologically within us and between us.

The biological sciences underscore the influence that individual bodies and their behaviors (both explicit and tacit) have on the bodies and thus the felt experiences of each other. This interpersonal influence makes relationship more than a context or a field in which two individuals co-exist and have discrete psychological experiences; it is more like a shared body, where a third being (the relationship itself) emerges and loops back to each partner, affecting each in potentially healing or damaging ways. There is me, there is you, and there is us. We seek to understand and be responsive to all three.