Improving your Wellbeing with Equine Therapy

Aim

To help people learn how to manage stress /anxety in their daily life, we work with horses in an alternative approach - less intimidating

Mental Health and Wellbeing Support 

We offer a range of small group workshops and individual 121 sessions for anyone wanting to improve their anxiety, stress and wellbeing levels. These sessions are aimed at those looking for a way to make lasting changes by learning more about themselves and what makes them tick.

The experiential sessions are overseen by Chartered Psychologist and CBT Coach Lizz Fields-Pattinson and Specialist EFL Coach Steph Gaunt who run Harness Coaching CIC.  Together they combine Psychology, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), stress management and performance management together with Equine Facilitated Coaching (EFL) to help people manage their very stressful lives and be more resilient and self-aware. 

We need money to run sessions for those who are not able to access support via the NHS due to a lack of resourses which make accessing support impossible. We are turing away families and indivuduals who need our help becuase they are unable to afford to pay for it themselves. 

We have been lucky in the past too get funding from local companies but it seems now that there are more organisations looking for funding and we are not able to rely on this. 

We are hoping by using Crowdfunder it will provide additional funds and that will mean we wont have to turn anyone away. Please continue to read below to findout more about what we do.

Walk & Talk sessions  

Run by Lizz Fields-Pattinson to help identify problems and issues that you are finding difficult to live with, clarify what you want to achieve in making them better and setting up a plan of action to get going and stay on track. All discussions are confidential, and it allows you to feel that you are taking control of these things that are keeping you awake at night. 

 ‘I was shocked how clear my thinking became after just a couple of sessions’ 

We can meet at a convenient local location that we can arrange in advance.

Equine Facilitated Coaching Sessions 

We provide a hands-on approach that gets people out in the fresh air in a natural environment rather than sitting at home. Working with a horse is a transformational way to learn about your own levels of stress and anxiety and the triggers that you are experiencing through your interactions with the horses. By becoming very aware of how you feel are both inside and out, which provides people with life changing skills to take away with them. 

‘IVe learned some life skills that actually work’

 Wellbeing with Horses workshops small groups

 Our small group Wellbeing with Horse workshops help people explore their fears and anxiety in an immersive atmosphere that leads to greater awareness of how to manage stress not become overwhelmed by it. Stress is an essential part of life and we need it to help us perform the things we want to do, but when the prolonged pressure exceeds the amount we can cope with we start to succumb to the negative psychological and harmful physical effects it brings out in us. We often find this works well for people who are living with conditions that are made worse by stress like ME, IBS, Fibromyalgia, MS.

 ‘It was a relaxing experience that allowed us to communicate so much better as a remote team’

This project closed unsuccessfully on 3rd September 2023