How to Apply a Trauma-Informed Lens to Treat and Prevent Burnout of Equines in EAS

Join HHRF on November 6, 2024 at 7:00pm as we learn more about this important topic:

How to Apply a Trauma-Informed Lens to Treat and Prevent Burnout of Equines in Equine Assisted Services

The welfare of our equine partners directly impacts the quality and quantity of services we can provide to our human clients, making equine welfare a significant factor in the delivery of effective services. Yet many equine assisted service providers struggle to prevent their equine partners' burnout or restore their mental and emotional welfare for a return to mutually beneficial human-equine interactions. Join us in applying a trauma-informed lens to equine welfare assessment, considering The 5 Domains and the various models through which we provide equine assisted services.

Reccia Jobe, NLC- P,EP

Reccia has been practicing experiential learning and equine assisted psychotherapy and learning since 2007. She has a lifetime of experience with horses and horsemanship, is trained in ropes course facilitation and experiential learning, and has a variety of training in trauma-informed approaches for helping humans, such as the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutic. She moonlights as a trainer and blog contributor for The Natural Lifemanship Institute. Her full-time job is as co-founder and CEO of Pecan Creek Ranch in Salado, TX, where she also serves as an Equine Professional for equine assisted mental health and learning services. Reccia has worked as an equine professional in mental health services with over 20 licensed mental health professionals, many of whom she mentored and trained in facilitating experiences with equines in support of unique client needs, experiences, and therapeutic goals. She has been responsible for managing the welfare and training of over 100 equines in her career and helps others attend to the training and welfare of many more. She has served a variety of populations, from at-risk youth to high-functioning corporate managers and teams. She provides reflective supervision for helping professionals and consultation and coaching for equine assisted service providers. She also helps horses and their caretakers through a relationship-centered, trauma-informed approach to horsemanship and training. Reccia’s equine assisted services work is featured in The Natural Lifemanship Institute training programs, Integrating Horses Into Healing, Horse Sense Business Sense, Second Edition, and I’m Drowning and I Don’t Know How To Begin: 26 Invitations for Exploration in Equine Assisted Services for Working with Children and Families. You can find other resources she and Rebecca J. Hubbard have created for equine assisted service providers and helping professionals at pecancreekeap.com/shop

Rebecca J. Hubbard, MS, LMFT

Rebecca has been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 1994. Since then, she has provided treatment to children and families challenged by trauma in their lives. She is certified in Natural Lifemanship as a clinician and equine professional, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Child-Parent Psychotherapy. Her experience is vast, ranging from providing psychotherapy to children and adults, developing and supervising programs, providing numerous trainings in the area of trauma and evidence-based trauma treatment, and providing clinical consultation in several evidence-based models of treatment. She is co-founder, COO, and Clinical Director of Pecan Creek Ranch, where she helps children, adults, and families through Trauma-Informed Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. She was one of the authors of Complex Trauma in Children & Adolescents, published in Psychiatric Annals in 2005. She is an affiliate member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and a blog contributor and trainer for The Natural Lifemanship Institute. Rebecca enjoys writing stories for children and adults. Her book, The Gift, explores the relationship between a young girl and a young colt. You can read some of Rebecca's EAP-specific professional work in Integrating Horses into Healing.and I’m Drowning and I Don’t Know How To Begin: 26 Invitations for Exploration in Equine Assisted Services for Working with Children and Families.

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