Start your healing journey with horses today

Equine Assisted Therapy (EAT) is an experiential approach to mental health treatment that focuses on helping people overcome and heal their emotional, mental and social health. Through the use of horses, EAT helps people gain confidence, build trust, and form healthier boundaries. Moreover, through horse based activities, people learn how to work with and care for horses which promotes empathy and building authentic and healthy connections.

Experience the remarkable benefits of Equine Assisted Therapy at Cowans Counselling & Equine Assisted Therapy located in Halifax and East Hants, Nova Scotia.

What is Equine Assisted Therapy?

  • Grounding & Mindfulness

    Being with horses requires people to be calm, centered, focused, and fully engaged. Horses teach us mindfulness, which helps us to become more aware and observant of our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and sensations.

  • Improved Self-Awareness

    Being around these big animals forces us to be self-aware and calm which promotes emotional awareness and regulation, as well as impulse control. Great for children and youth who would benefit from developing skills to improve self-control.

  • Confidence & Boundaries

    Horses are great teachers of leadership and boundaries. As herd animals, horses are very aware of their boundaries- it’s in their nature to tune into themselves and their environment. For survival they can read body language, and can show us how to protect our physical and emotional personal space. Horses teach us to slow down, and start noticing what feels right and what doesn’t.

  • Less Intimidating than Traditional Office- based Therapy

    Equine assisted therapy can be more inviting than a traditional office-based therapy. Having horses present may offer a sense of peace, as they only will react to the our behavior and emotions with no threat of bias or any judgment. Often people report that equine therapy feels less threatening which can be especially beneficial for anyone who may be reluctant or therapy resistant.

Join the Herd

  • 46 Keough Lane
    Windsor Junction, Nova Scotia
    902-518-4033

    Sarahcowanscounselling@gmail.com

  • 2102 S Rawdon Road
    Mt. Uniacke, Nova Scotia