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