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EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY

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Ready for the Next Step?

Email our Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Program Manager 
to see if TF-EAP fits you, your child, or a family member.

Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy

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 Psychotherapy 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 recognize emotions and
    regulate the nervous system

  • Experience healthy connection

  • Identify and change harmful relationship patterns

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This program will guide you through building a healthy relationship with a specially trained team including a licensed therapist, a certified equine professional, and the horse of your choosing. This experience helps you understand how your brain functions while building new pathways that heal relationships with yourself, others, and the world around you.

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Our horses are a vital part of the therapy team. Horses are uniquely attuned to subtle shifts in human respiration, body language, tone of voice, 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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Additional Mental Health Resources

If you, or someone you love, needs help now, call 9-1-1.

Private Therapist: Suicide Practitioner

Whitcomb Terpening, MSW, LCSW-S

thesemicolongroup.com

wt@thesemicolongroup.com

281-475-6760

Located in Spring. Telehealth available.

 

Private Therapist: Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Janet Nicholas, MA, LPC, LCDC

Janetnicholas.com

janet@janetnicholas.com

713-882-4268

Offices located in The Woodlands; Equine-Therapy
located in Tomball

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Amanda Martin

Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Special Cheers

12570 Clay Road, Houston, TX 7041

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Beverly Walsh, PhD

Brookside Ranch

Brooksideranch.com

Dr.bev@sbcglobal.net

713-540-1528

Located in the Pearland area

 

Private Therapist: Family, Marriage & Individual Therapy

EMDR Certified

Amanda Martin, PhD, LMFT-S
amandamartincounseling.com

832-422-8702

Located in Katy and Sugar Land

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Mosaics of Mercy

Helping Families Navigate Mental Health & Addiction Recovery

33114 Forest West Street
Magnolia, TX 77354

Phone: (346) 703-0051
mosaicstx.org

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Texas Education Agency

Counseling, Advising, and Student Supports

CASSTeam@tea.texas.gov

1701 North Congress Avenue

Austin, TX 78701-1401

School Counseling – FAQs

https://tinyurl.com/2ak9u9xt

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Jemwellnesscenter.com

Several therapists, providing diverse services

Clinical Director: Melanie Flint, LCSW

Located in central Houston and Northwest Houston on Cypresswood

contact@jemwellnesscenter.com

832-560-9698

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Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare-Psychiatrists
and Therapists Available  (Medicaid Accepted)

Routine Services: 800-550-8408

Crisis Hotline: 800-659-6994

tcbhc.org

Psychiatric Emergency Treatment Center:
706 FM 2854
(aka Old Montgomery Road/Metcalf Street)

Conroe, TX 77301

Serves individuals living in Montgomery, Walker, and Liberty counties

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Psychiatrists
 

Dr. Terry Hugg

281-893-4111

17115 Red Oak Dr; Ste 109;

Houston, TX 77090

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Dr. Roopa Challapalli-281-465-9300 behavioralhealthcarephysicians.com

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Dr. Pacificah (281-651-8474) (Equanimity Behavioral
Healthcare; equanimitybhcs.org)

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Kingwood Psychiatry

kingwoodpsychiatry.com; 281-358-5701

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Dr. Nora Bailey at Woodlands Psychiatry woodlandspsychiatry.com; 832-458-1344​

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