Equine-Assisted Therapy Program

What is Equine Psychotherapy?

Equine psychotherapy, also called equine-assisted therapy, is a form of mental health treatment that uses interactions with horses to support emotional growth and healing. Working with horses through activities like grooming, ground activities, and occasional riding helps individuals heal in a unique hands-on way.

How Horses Heal

Studies show that equine-assisted therapy significantly strengthens healthy emotion regulation and boosts self-esteem, helping people feel more grounded, confident, and in control of their healing journey.

Research found that just six sessions of equine-assisted therapy can lead to major reductions in PTSD symptoms and anxiety, providing a gentle, powerful path toward peace.

Testimonies

Location

6671 Oak Ridge Trail Blackshear GA

Take an immediate right after the train tracks on Oak Ridge Circle

Contact Us

Hooves to Freedom

912-286-2921

Equine-assisted psychotherapy is designed for children, teens, adults, and families seeking a hands-on, relational approach to healing and growth.

This approach is especially beneficial for individuals working through anxiety, anger, grief, trauma, and emotional regulation challenges. Horses provide immediate, honest feedback to our emotions and behaviors, helping clients develop greater self-awareness and self-regulation in a natural and non-judgmental environment.

As prey animals, horses are highly attuned to subtle emotional and physiological changes. They read body language, energy, and emotional shifts often before we are consciously aware of them. Through guided interaction, horses help clients learn leadership, responsibility, communication, patience, problem-solving, and emotional regulation all without relying solely on words.

Equine-assisted therapy is particularly effective for individuals who:

  • Prefer a hands-on or experiential approach to therapy
  • Feel stuck or resistant to traditional talk therapy
  • Benefit from movement, interaction, and real-time feedback

This program also serves families who desire stronger communication, healthier attachment, and deeper relational connection. Shared experiences with the horses create opportunities for growth, collaboration, and meaningful connection.

Clients seeking a unique and integrative approach to trauma healing may find significant benefit through equine-assisted therapy, especially within our trauma-focused programs. Additionally, those exploring self-worth and identity are supported through our Identity in Christ program, where experiential learning is paired with faith-centered counseling.

Equine-assisted therapy offers healing beyond words, meeting clients where they are and inviting growth through relationship, movement, and meaningful connection.

This program may be a great fit if you are seeking:

If you are interested in equine psychotherapy services, we invite you to contact us to discuss clinical fit, goals, and availability. Intake, informed consent, and clinical screening are required prior to participation.

Contact us to schedule an initial consultation or learn more about program availability.

$150 per hour for session (self-pay) able to file some insurances

$75 monthly membership – taken out on the 15th of each month (not billable to insurance)

Priority afternoon scheduling with the membership

2x monthly

Clinical Disclaimer

Equine Psychotherapy Services Notice

Equine psychotherapy services are provided exclusively by licensed mental health professionals and are considered a form of psychotherapy. These services are distinct from recreational riding, equine activities, or personal development coaching.

Clients experiencing an active crisis or requiring a higher level of care may be referred to appropriate services.

Equine Psychotherapy (Licensed Clinical Services)

Program Overview

Our Equine Psychotherapy services provide clinically informed, experiential mental health treatment facilitated by licensed mental health professionals and trained equine specialists. Sessions integrate psychotherapy principles with structured, ground-based interaction with horses to support therapeutic goals in a regulated, natural environment.

Equine psychotherapy is appropriate for individuals seeking an alternative or adjunct to traditional office-based therapy.

Programs We Offer

Beauty from Ashes -12 sessions

Facilitates healing and identity restoration after trauma, best for those working through pain, shame, or life-altering experiences.

Guides the grief process through structured, experiential support, best for those navigating loss and learning how to move forward.

Strengthens family relationships through communication, boundaries, and repair, best for families seeking healthier dynamics and deeper connection.

Strengthens identity, worth, and personal calling, best for individuals seeking clarity, confidence, and a deeper sense of purpose.

Develops emotional regulation and resilience skills, best for individuals struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, or nervous system dysregulation.

Targets emotional awareness and core belief patterns, best for those ready to explore what’s underneath their behaviors and responses.

Builds secure attachment through experiential, relationship-based work, best for individuals, children, and families navigating trust, attachment wounds, or relational disconnection.

Builds confidence and healthy decision-making under pressure, best for individuals learning to resist negative influences and live with intention.

Meet Your Counselor

Logan is a LPC with a Master’s in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. She is a certified therapeutic riding instructor with the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH). She is trained in several programs for trauma, including EMDR. She is also trained in Play Therapy techniques and cognitive-behavioral techniques.  She has a B.S in Equine Science from Judson College.

Logan has two personal horses, Solomon (left) and Zara (right).

Marriage Intensive

In contrast to traditional weekly counseling, where progress can be slow and interrupted by life’s distractions, a marriage intensive provides an immersive, extended period of therapeutic care designed to help couples make meaningful, measurable progress in their relationship in just one dedicated week.

Cord of 3 Nonprofit Alliance Program

Our Nonprofit Alliance Program is dedicated to empowering other nonprofits to thrive through Kingdom-focused principles, guiding them toward sustainability and growth in Program Development, Strategic Planning, Advancement, Financial Accounting, and Capital Campaign management. We offer tiered service levels to meet nonprofits at their stage of development and growth goals.

Training and Discipleship

The Cord of 3 training and discipleship program serves the community by offering educational seminars on various mental health and related topics (parenting subjects, coping with loss, warning signs of addiction) as well as conferences, retreats, and seminars for area churches on matters that pertain to God’s design for the family.

Counselor Education & Supervision

Cord of 3’s Counselor education and supervision program is deigned to support interns who are completing their master’s degree, counselors who are working toward licensure, and professionals who are working to integrate their Chritian faith into their clinical practice.

Equine Therapy

Cord of 3’s equine therapy program is designed for individuals ages 7 and up as well as women ages 13+ and families. Equine therapy can help individuals and families overcome challenges, cuiltivate healthy relational skills, build trust, improve interpersonal and behavioral functioning, and create positive self-concept and identity in Christ.

Play God’s Way

A Christ-centered play therapy model to meet the spiritual, emotional, and mental health needs of children. Through play therapy, children learn to accept responsibility for behavior, engage in healthy coping strategies, acquire problem-solving skills, develop empathy for others, and gain an understanding of identity in Christ.

ADDICTION RECOVERY

Addictions always originate in pain… The question is never ‘why the addiction?,’ but rather ‘why the pain?’” (Dr. Gabor Maté). Counselors can help those struggling with addictions address underlying painful issues and then break the addictive patterns.

Child & Adolescent

Behavioral issues at home or in school often have an underlying cause, such as trauma, depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions. The experienced staff at Cord of 3 meets each child with love, builds trust, and applies effective treatment that approaches the root cause of the behavior.

Marriage & Family

As in couple’s counseling, family counseling focuses on the relationship and dynamics within the family unit and between the individual members of it. Counselors will help clients identify unhealthy or unhelpful patterns, and to address them by developing healthier communication and conflict resolutions skills, create realistic expectations, and restructure familial roles to benefit everyone. The ultimate goal is to help the family be better able to thrive as a team.

STRESS & TRAUMA

Every person will at some point have at least one potentially traumatic experience, but this doesn’t impact everyone in the same ways. When struggling to process and move on from negative life experiences, therapy offers a powerful method of finding support and healing.

EMOTIONAL WHOLENESS

Individual counseling can help overcome the sometimes overwhelming fear and hopelessness by helping you better understand the conditions that led to the emotional brokenness you are experiencing, and applying healthy coping skills against them.