Equine Assisted Therapy (EAT) refers to a broad range of treatment modalities where mental health professionals work alongside horses to support and improve social, emotional and physiological health.

EAT is experiential, meaning that learning occurs through doing: hands on activities, observing, touching, smelling and hearing. This allows us to activate all of our body senses rather than relying on or over-using our ‘thinking’. This provides wonderful alternative to traditional talk therapies and often compliments room based treatment.

EAT is suitable for people of all ages and is easily adapted for couples, families and groups and is considered effective in the support and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD), Anxiety, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Trauma, Addiction, Eating Disorders.

Equine Assisted Clinical Psychology (EACP – known as Heads & Tails) is dedicated to advancing the standards of excellence in experiential clinical psychology and supporting children, young people and families towards social, behavioural and emotional change.

Heads & Tails is committed to providing equine assisted therapy that is effective for children and young people that struggle to engage in or respond to traditional room-based therapies provided by a child therapist.

We know that every child is unique and we tailor our services to match the needs of the child, taking them from where they are to where they need to be through animal therapy sessions that build relationships and inspire them to be all that they can be.