For some people with mental health problems, sitting in a closed room and talking just doesn’t alleviate the pain and difficulties that come from stress, grief, PTSD or social anxiety.
Trips to the GP and repeat prescriptions, sometimes for years, take effort and persistence but don’t inspire a sense of recovery or wellbeing.
These conventional approaches are available on the NHS, but can feel like the only options available, and sometimes NHS waiting lists mean even these are difficult to access.
Our Centre for Animal and Nature Assisted Therapy offers another option.
Our therapy is held outside in nature, with a skilled practitioner who guides each client to feel connected at a deep level with therapy animals and the natural surroundings. Our practitioners, in their individual practices, have helped hundreds of clients in outdoor therapy sessions of 1-4 hours, in woodlands and forests, with different animals including horses, goats and birds of prey.
During a series of sessions, clients spend 1-to-1 time with the practitioner, learning to use and trust their senses, finding
instinctive ways to feel better, with the help of the animals and nature. In this process, clients with even deep held trauma can feel safe and at ease enough to
face the root of their mental health challenges and
find resolution, with profound long-term benefits after just a few sessions.
Watch
this video to hear genuine clients' stories of overcoming grief, social anxiety, fatigue and brain injury with this therapy.
The therapy is for anyone, but is a precious opportunity for those who feel like they’ve tried everything and are not moving forwards, for those who are tired of taking medication and talking in circles inside four white walls.
Our Centre for Animal and Nature Assisted Therapy was launched in May 2022 to help these people...
...but we need your help too.
We’re looking for donations to make this truly life-changing therapy a reality for those who need it. Your donations enable us to provide these bespoke 1-to-1 therapy sessions and reach people who have tried everything else and are feeling truly hopeless.
We’re grateful for any donations, whatever the size, but what really makes a difference for us is a regular monthly payment. With that support, we can offer clients a course of sessions. This could be completely life-changing for somebody.
With larger donations or with special fundraising appeals, we can launch specific programmes for vulnerable groups. If you’re particularly interested in this and would like to discuss it,
contact us and we can arrange a phone or zoom call.
Thank you so much for your interest and support.
