For Therapists & Healing Professionals
For Therapists & Healing Professionals
CONTINUING EDUCATION
We are proud to offer innovative Continuing Education courses for psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs and Addiction Treatment Counselors. Our small group CE workshops and retreats provide a combination of didactic and experiential learning designed to enhance your clinical skills, and bring more joy and resonance to your life and practice.
We invite you to come and increase your clinical skills through this unique method of experiential learning.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Learn innovative tools for clinical practice
- Improve self-awareness and capacity for mindfulness
- Feel more freedom and vitality in your work
- Experience Equine Assisted Growth and Learning
- Reduce compassion fatigue
- Recharge and rejuvenate
- Engage with like-minded colleagues
For more information about the specifics on any upcoming program or workshop please contact us.
The Role of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy in Mental Health
2 CE credits (or CAADE CEUs) are available at our Intro to Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Growth & Learning & Networking Event for Mental Health Professionals – upcoming dates TBD.
This workshop is designed to help you be able to:
- Explain what EAP is and how it differs from other Equine Therapies.
- Discuss the theory and practice of EAP.
- Participate in and/or observe experiential exercises and describe how working with horses can quickly illuminate dynamics and provide immediate opportunities for growth and change.
- Identify populations for which Equine Assisted Psychotherapy can be used.
Please call us if you would like more information regarding this program. This program and its instructors do not have any commercial support or relationship that could reasonably be construed as a conflict of interest.
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Intro to Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Growth & Learning Workshop – 3 CE credits are available for Mental Health Professionals – upcoming dates TBD.
Using Embodied Mindfulness to Enhance Clinical Practice – Embodied Mindfulness & Countertransference workshop – 6 CE credits are available for Mental Health Professionals – upcoming dates TBD.
4 CE Credits are available for Mental Health Professionals who attend our Countertransference and Restorative Experience Workshop Presenter: Vallerie E. Coleman, Ph.D. – upcoming dates TBD
Moving from Resistance to Resonance – upcoming dates TBD.
Check our upcoming events page for more information.
Psychologists: Stand InBalance is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Stand InBalance maintains responsibility for its programs and their content.
LMFTs and LCSWs: APA CE credits meet the requirements for LCSWs & LMFTs – check your state requirements if you are licensed outside CA.
Addiction Treatment Counselors (CATCs): Stand InBalance is an authorized CAADE CEU provider.
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PERSONAL GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
As healing professionals, it is essential that we attend to our own needs for self-care, and self-development. And, as we all know, the more we do our own internal work the stronger our clinical skills and the more successful our practices.
Our general workshops, retreats, and private sessions offer profound opportunities to connect with one’s inner self, deepen awareness, enhance relationships, and gain greater equanimity.
Learn more about our retreats and workshops
Learn more about our private sessions
We work with you to provide your clients with an experiential component designed to facilitate and enhance your clinical work.
Do you find that some of your clients are continually stuck in:
- Destructive patterns?
- Intellectualized defenses?
- Problematic relationships?
- Unhealthy boundaries?
- Talking about issues and unable to put awareness into action?
Our powerful, effective, and collaborative model of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy utilizes metaphorical, somatic engagement and combines the intuitive qualities of the horse with the client’s desire to learn and grow. Through interaction with the horse(s), clients embody new behaviors and insights to augment their therapeutic work and enhance their lives.
Client results can include:
- Movement from intellectualizing to affective awareness
- Turning insight into behavioral change
- Improved affect regulation
- Embodied mindfulness
- Increased focus, intention, and commitment
- Capacity to set clear and effective boundaries
- Enhanced empowerment and resilience
Frequently Asked Questions
Based on consultation with you and an initial intake with your client, the Stand InBalance team will recommend a treatment format designed to meet your client’s needs. We then coordinate treatment with you as needed.
Yes, we encourage therapists to come and learn first hand about their client’s experience. We actively work with you and your clients so they can bring their experiences into their therapy sessions to maximize insight and change.
No, almost all work with the client and horse is done on the ground (no riding), with a focus on human skills, not horse skills. Our programs are not about horsemanship. They are about exploring partnership, communication, and authenticity; and having fun along the way.
A typical session involves ground activities with the horses that provide opportunities for embodied experience and self-reflection. Our professionals help clients explore their interactions with the horses and the metaphors that emerge, so that lessons learned in the arena can be addressed in their primary therapy and applied in life.