Animals as Natural Therapy have
been helping at-risk youth and veterans struggling with numerous physical and
mental disabilities in northern Bellingham for 13 years. ANT uses a multitude
of animal programs to provide therapy to their clients, the most popular being
their equine program. The equine program builds a bond with the horse and the
student that teaches the student how to verbally and nonverbally communicate
with the animal. The equine program also uses metaphors to help its students
learn what problems they face in everyday life. An instance of this would be
when a student is trying to learn how to walk with the horse in a circle and
the horse becomes nippy or aggressive with the student, the therapist would
then ask the student, “who is nippy at you in life?”
The
program teaches the students by showing them how to properly care for the horse
such as grooming and feeding techniques, many students then progress to
learning how to saddle the horse and eventually riding on the horse. Equine
helps students who have tried various other forms of therapy and have not found
the success they were hoping for. Equine is proven to help improve social
skills, depression, trust, communication and various other aspects of human
development.
To learn more about equine visit- http://www.equine-psychotherapy.com/equine.html
and http://www.fortunecentre.org/Therapy/therapy.html
Animals as Natural Therapy- http://www.animalsasnaturaltherapy.org/
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