Integrating Horses into Healing

Introduction to the Book I. Introduction to Equine Assisted Services and the Healing Nature of Horses 1. The Natural Therapeutic Aspects of Horses 2. The Evolution of Equine Assisted Services: Horse are Good for People 3. Horse Speak and Partnership II. Office to Farm: Incorporating the Horse into the Healing Process 4. Relational Equine-Partnered Counseling (REPC) 5. An In-Depth Approach to Relational Work with Equines: Natural Lifemanship 6. Breathing into Relationships: The Human-Equine Relational Development (HERD) Approach to Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy 7. Side to Side Astride: The Benefits and Challenges of Equine Mounted Work in Trauma Processing 8. Integrating Equine Engaged Internal Family Systems (EE-IFS) and Equine Connected Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EC-EMDR) into the Natural Lifemanship Practice of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) 9. Medical Therapy (OT, PT, SLP) Enhanced with Hippotherapy 10. The Equus Effect- An Integrated Approach to Nervous System Regulation through Equine Assisted Learning 11. Serving Those Who Served.... and Still Serve 12. Beyond Mind and Body: Spiritual Connections in Equine Assisted Services III. Impact of Equine Assisted Services on Equines 13. Be the Horse's Advocate 14. Enhancing the Horse's Voice: Incorporating Horse Speak into Therapy 15. Exploring the Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development in Horses 16. Not Just Horsing Around: An Equine Professional's Guiding Principles 17. The Role of the Equine Professional in Equine Assisted Services 18. Heart Centered Horsemanship: A Horse Trainer's Perspective 19. A Holistic Perspective: My Transformative Journey Through Natural Lifemanship IV. Practitioner Wellness 20. Are We There Yet? The Ongoing Journey of Healing for Healers 21. Mental Health and Wellbeing for EAS Professionals V. The Sustainability of EAS: from Practitioner to Program to Industry 22. What Happens When you Put the Cart Before the Horse? 23. The Keys to a Successful Non-Profit Board 24. How do you Know it Works: Program Evaluation in EAS 25. How is Equine Assisted Research Important to my Practice? 26. Conclusions and Future Direction