Tuesday, February 26, 2013

How to Choose the Right Therapist

It's very important, especially in equine therapy and horse therapy to make sure you find a therapist that fits. This means that automatically there is a connection between the client and the therapist, which makes it easier to communicate. 

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Types of Psychotherapy

Here at Pegasus Equine Therapy we believe horse therapy is the most powerful form of psychotherapy, but watch this video and see a few different types: 

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Treating Anxiety

Again Psych Central has written a great article on using mindfulness to treat anxiety. While I believe that equine assisted therapy and horse therapy are powerful advocates for beating anxiety here is another option: 

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"Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a common treatment for anxiety disorders. Cognitive-behavioral therapy theorizes that in anxiety disorders, the patient overestimates the danger of disruptive events in his life, and underestimates his ability to cope. CBT attempts to replace maladaptive thinking by examining the patient’s distorted thinking and resetting the fight-or-flight response with more reasonable, accurate ones. The anxious person and the therapist work to actively change thought patterns.

In contrast, instead of changing thoughts, mindfulness-based therapies (MBTs) seek to change the relationship between the anxious person and his or her thoughts. 

In mindfulness-based therapy, the person focuses on the bodily sensations that arise when he or she is anxious. Instead of avoiding or withdrawing from these feelings, he or she remains present and fully experiences the symptoms of anxiety. Instead of avoiding distressing thoughts, he or she opens up to them in an effort to realize and acknowledge that they are not literally true.

Although it may seem counter-intuitive, fully realizing the experience of anxiety enables anxious people to release their over identification with negative thoughts. The person practices responding to disruptive thoughts, and letting these thoughts go.

By remaining present in the body, they learn that the anxiety they experience is merely a reaction to perceived threats. By positively responding to threatening events instead of being reactive they can overcome an erroneous fight-or-flight response."

Source: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/01/28/using-mindfulness-to-treat-a...

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Equine Therapy > Prescription Drugs

Here is a snippet from a Psych Central article that I thought is really relative to equine assisted therapy. So many people in the U.S are over-diagnosed, when they are just reacting to a situation the way anyone would! 

"According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 25 percent of Americans suffer from some sort of mental illness. The vast majority of those are taking psychotropic drugs. That’s a lot of disturbed Americans.

Or is it? Perhaps that high statistic is nothing more than normal emotional reactions being over-diagnosed and over-medicated.

Are there ways to help without harming? Yes! Consider equine assisted therapy. This consists of teaching people how to cope with difficult situations, become more resilient, and manage their emotions — all without diagnoses and medication."

Source: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/02/05/are-we-over-diagnosed-and-ov...

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