Epona Awakenings

Epona Awakenings offers Equine Assisted Therapy & Learning for enhanced mental health and wellbeing.

MISSION STATEMENT:
Delivering innovative and experiential programs to individuals and groups, that develop self-awareness, connection and authentic relationship to facilitate sustainable change


Epona Awakenings provides services to support children, adolescents and adults to increase their self-awareness and social & emotional skills for personal development, healing, relationships, team building and leadership development.

Equine Assisted Therapy is a therapeutic approach to bringing people and horses together to promote the client’s personal and/or professional development and learning. Horses are especially valuable in the therapy process due to their prey animal instincts. They are highly sensitive to their environment and responsive to human emotional cues. With this sensitivity to subtle changes, horses often respond to people differently based on the individual’s emotional state.

Equine Assisted Therapy is experiential in nature. Clients learn by directly working with a horse.
Activities are chosen intentionally to reveal important insights and encourage certain skills.
Clients are then given the opportunity to discuss feelings, behaviours, and patterns they noticed during the activity and how those elements may be apparent in other areas of their lives.

Therapy with horses has been used for a variety of mental and emotional health needs including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, ADHD, grief and loss, and relationship problems.
Individuals, couples, families, and teams can all benefit from this type of therapy.

Enquire today about our 6 week Horse Wisdom program.
This six session program is structured on horse wisdom and what horses can teach us about important life skills, such as living in awareness and in the present moment, good boundary setting, managing feelings as information, sensitivity as a strength, clear communication and relationship. Through relational interactions with the horses that include horse observations, meeting horses at liberty, ground/leadline sessions, grooming and horse care sessions; clients learn life skills, emotional regulation and explore their patterns of behaviour.

All interactions and experiences with the horses are offered to clients with clear guidelines about the process, how to stay safe with the horses, with clients supported in ways that are professional, ethical and safe.

At Epona Awakenings we have a special interest in working with First Responders and Health Professionals who are experiencing Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, or PTSD.

For further details please contact Lynn Exton on 0417 055 105 or email -
info@epona-awakenings.com.au