There are several different types of Equine Therapy Programs. The Eagala Model is The Global Standard for Equine Assisted Psychotherapy & Personal Development. This team approach is a professional mental health model. It is not recreational horsemanship, riding lessons, or therapeutic riding and does not involve riding at all. The Eagala Model is a psychological framework based on sound theoretical principles led by a licensed Mental Health Professional. It is a team approach with a Mental Health Professional (MHP), Equine Specialist (ES) and horses. Your therapist is responsible for creating, with your support, a treatment plan. Your ES co-facilitates with your therapist and oversees the physical and emotional safety of the horses and everything in the environment.

The third part of your team is the horses. We believe that healing and change takes more than talking. Horses are highly intuitive and sensitive beings who have a special ability to connect in ways that help you to be present, identify your feelings and work through emotional and behavioral barriers without shame or stigma. Horses provide a relationship for safe healing to occur, even without verbalizing.

Please visit Eagala.org to learn more about this amazing program.