Equine-librium, ft. Amanda Slugoski, M.A.

Episode Summary

Equine therapy; does it involve horses laying on a couch, talking about their fear of intimacy? Or is it therapy for humans, given by horses? Perhaps a therapist throw you on top of a horse and ask you about your relationship with your mother.

We wanted to know, so we contacted Amanda Slugoksi. She is a registered psychologist, and founder of Equinox Therapeutic, which provides both traditional and equine-assisted therapy to patients.

Amanda got into what equine therapy is, how it can bypass a lot of the hurdles that traditional therapists can face, such as the challenge of getting patients to open up, and how equine assisted therapy can act as a trojan horse for healing.

Resources

You can find Amanda and her team at Equinox Therapeutic or on Facebook, or Email

What is Equine-assisted Therapy?


Complex PTSD

Chapters

• (0:00) - Mic drop


• (01:18) - Intro to Amanda


• (13:22) - First session


• (19:06) - Experiential healing


• (23:58) - Rapport building


• (32:53) - How do you want to be with this?


• (35:45) - Working with veterans


• (38:37) - C-PTSD isn't a thing


• (40:24) - C-PTSD apparently is in fact, a thing


• (41:33) - N.B.


• (46:30) - Why do the sessions start on the ground


• (49:59) - Goal vs process


• (53:33) - Big takeaways


• (58:41) - Resources

Find out more at http://therapyismytherapy.co

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