Harnessing the Power of Equine Assisted Counseling: Adding Animal Assisted Therapy to Your Practice

Bought as a textbook for SW school. It was an excellent intro to equine assisted counseling and I often use the exercises with individuals, groups, and for team boosters at work, no equines involved.

This book has many examples of games and exercises for EFT. The explanations of the games and exercises are well written and easily understood. The only drawback is that those games and exercises are really on a very basic level and rely almost exclusively on the benefits of the limbic connection between horses and humans. In short, the book doesn't have exercises that require more of the student and the horse than the good old touchy-feely benefits. Nonetheless, I would recommend this book as a starting point for anyone who wants to include EFT in their program.

There are still relatively few really solid resources on the use of animal assisted therapy in counseling, and this is one of them! Dr. Trotter has compiled valuable interventions, with sufficient detail and information to guide properly trained therapists in their use. This is a very valuable resource for mental health therapists and educators involving equines in their work!

Great information. We have Barnabas Horse Foundation for Children and are using EAP to help children who have been traumatized. We were certified by Greg Kiersten of the O.K. Corral series in EAP. I constantly look for valid information to continue education and build our resources. This book is a great resource and tool. She effectively gives the reasoning behind the different exercises. It is written for clinical professionals, but as a layperson to psychology ( I am the horse expert), I did not find her book hard to read and understand.

I have been doing this work for 10 years. I was looking for new ideas, a rejunenation of sorts. This book is written from an extremely intellectual point of view. It is very hard to read, VERY clinical. I find this ironic since I believe any work done with horses is hands on, experiential and lost when one works soley from one's head. There were are few gems in the book but hard work to find.Expensive and for a practioner working from an intutive place, not the book for me

A wealth of examples and techniques that will enhance the work of therapists, from beginner to seasoned expert. Well written.

Anyone interested in horses and helping others should definitely read this book. It is very educational and easy to read and understand!

excellent

Excellent book. Full of extremely usefull information. Highly recommended.

excellent reference book, says my Partner.lots of good ideas in it.

helpful read

A comprehensive overview of the field.