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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