Recently lost a loved one? Want some help?

Grief and loss can be painful and difficult parts in every life. They are normal and fundamental experiences that affect everyone differently, whether experienced as adults or as children.

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) is an experiential approach to challenging issues such as dealing with grief and loss. EAP can help address expressing feelings, increasing coping skills, rebuilding self-esteem and decreasing grief symptoms.

Learn more about grief and loss, and their impact on us below.

“The friend who can be silent with us in moments of despair or confusion, who stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… that is a friend who cares.”
— Henry Nouwen

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No horse experience necessary.

examples of loss:

  • Death (including a loved one, a family pet, miscarriage)

  • Marital separation or divorce

  • Diminished functioning of family members (i.e. chronic illness, mental illness, or chronic disability)

  • Loss of job or home

  • Moving

  • "Positive" events such as marriage, birth of child, or retirement

Grief & Loss-Related Symptoms

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross stated the grief process has five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. A person may not go through these stages in a sequential order. Symptoms can be characteristic of Depression and are considered "normal" unless they last longer than two months.

common symptoms:

  • Change in appetite and/or sleep pattern

  • Loss of motivation

  • Sadness

  • Tearfulness

  • Pain

  • Shock

  • Anger

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