Inspiration Ranch recognizes that to meet the mental health needs of Montgomery County and the Greater Houston region, we must be strategic, forward-thinking, and compassionate in our approach to mental health care. And so, we offer our herd of horses to you to help with learning and healing.

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Our Equine-Assisted Mental Health Program is a trauma-focused and trauma-informed model based on the principles of Natural Lifemanship. Natural Lifemanship believes that secure, healthy relationships are the foundation for all healing and uses Trauma-Focused Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP) to help clients learn to build healthy relationships and understand the power that those healthy relationships have to let them heal from harmful life experiences.

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Benefits of TF-EAP include:

• Increased self-confidence

• Increased ability to control emotions and calm the body

• Increased ability to connect with yourself and others

• Identify and change relationship pattern

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This program will guide you through building a relationship with a horse by a specially trained team of a Mental Health Professional, an Equine Expert, and the horse itself. The relationship-building process will help you understand how your life experiences have shaped how your brain functions. It then teaches you to build new pathways in your brain to heal relationships with yourself, others, and the world around you.  

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Our horses are vital partners on the therapy team. Horses react quickly and authentically to subtle shifts in human respiration, body language, voice tone, muscle tension, and posture. They are invaluable as relationship partners because they provide immediate and non-judgmental feedback about the impact of our interactions with them. Becoming familiar with a horse’s feedback forms the foundation for change that promotes healing and the development of secure relationships with yourself and others in your life. The same skills and principles you learn in your relationship with a horse apply to all human relationships.

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