Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) can be used as a supplementary programme to assist clients in addiction treatment centres to gain personal insight into boundaries and relationships. It can help build bonds of trust and support for individuals and families, develop better verbal and nonverbal communication within relationships, increase attention span and readiness to learn about self and others and build confidence.

EAP uses a highly structured activity-based approach to promote personal growth and responsibility through the interaction with horses. It is becoming clear that this … Continue reading

At the Instituto Guestalt Counselling’s school prospective therapists and counselors first learn to reactivate their own internal resources and come to terms with their own problems and anxieties. This process helps to remove the need to always direct and control a situation, of being the one who is knowledgeable and instead teaches them how to provide a psychological space that is warm, gentle and solid, and also a real space where future clients can feel at home, where they can reactivate their resources and dormant … Continue reading