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Jackie Ashley, LPC, BC-DMT, AcS, ESMHL

Somatic Psychotherapy with Horses

  • Home
  • About
    • About Jackie Ashley
    • My Approach
    • Videos
  • What I Do
    • Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
    • Somatic Psychotherapy
    • Dance and Movement Therapy
    • Supervision / Consultation
  • Groups
    • Overview of Groups
    • Adult Men’s Group
    • Young Men’s Equine Group
    • Women’s Healing Group with Horses
    • Healing with Grief and Loss
    • Supervision/Consultation Groups
  • Workshops
    • Embodied Presence Workshop
  • Contact

Overview of Groups

I offer a variety of groups and workshops where people interact with horses to access deep healing for body based trauma, as well as to deepen one’s capacity for embodiment, connection and vitality. These groups offer tools and resources to lessen the experiences of anxiety, depression, self-aggression and shame based behaviors.


I have a deep passion for working in groups. Studying anthropology as an undergraduate, I saw that humans evolved in groups, wired for connection and dependence. We have moved in groups, eaten in groups, hunted & gathered and lived communally for thousands of years before settling into isolated communities and individual households. I have seen healing move forward exponentially when people share their stories, their experiences and their suffering with others. Isolation for humans in unnatural and the loneliness that is experienced leads to challenges in our mental health.

I offer many types of groups, mostly integrating the powerful presence of horses. Group work with horses, be it ongoing or for a day, creates a safe and powerful environment for healing. Horses have evolved to live in herds and thus are highly evolved to attune to the safety of their immediate surroundings. Humans entering this space enter into this finely perceived environment and the horse can easily gage individual energies as well as that of the group. A horse “knows” what that person’s emotional, psychological and feeling state is in regards to safety and congruency. Depending upon the human’s awareness to, and relationship to those states, the horse will respond. This gives immediate information for facilitator and participant and the healing begins.

One long time group participant said “I didn’t even know that I needed what the horse gave me. This has happened over and over again…”

Because of our (humans’) capacity to think and contemplate, we can get stuck in our past experiences or in anxiety about the future. Many of us are actually unaware of how we really feel, both in body sensations and emotions in relationship to the experiences, some highly traumatic, we have had. We are, though, well aware of how these experiences manifest in our lives to disrupt our health, vitality, capacity to connection and resiliency.

Please consider joining a group to experience the profound healing that can occur with others and in the presence of horses in a safe, accepting environment. Check out the drop down menu for my current groups!

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Equine-Facilitated Groups and Workshops with Jackie

I offer a variety of groups and workshops where people can interact with horses to access deep healing. Click below to see dates, descriptions and details. Please join us!

Young Men’s Equine Group

When: Saturdays – Feb. 25, March 18 and April 22, 2023
Time: 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Fee: $100 each group, $275 for all 3.

Women’s Healing Group with Horses

When: Feb. 25 – March 18 – May 13.
Time: Saturdays, 10am – 1pm
Fee: $100 a group or all 3 for $275
Where: Longmont, CO

 

Healing with Grief and Loss

Dates: Feb. 28 – April 18, 2023
Time: Tuesdays, 4–6pm
Fee: $400
Where: Directions given upon registration

Adult Men’s Group

Dates / Times TBA: 3 weekend afternoons March, April and May
Time: 2:30–5:30pm
Cost: $100 each group or all 3 for $275

Embodied Presence Workshop

When: TBA – Late Spring 2023

Supervision/ Consultation Groups

DMT specific group: Every other week on Fridays 10-11:30

Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy/Growth & Learning group: every other week Fridays 10-11:30

 

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Jackie Ashley, LPC, BC-DMT, ACS, ESMHL

Phone: 720-308-2728
Email: jackieashley9@nullgmail.com

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Dates / Times TBA: 3 weekend afternoons March, April and May
Time: 2:30–5:30pm
Cost: $100 each group or all 3 for $275

Jackie Ashley  •  Phone: 720-308-2728  •  Email: jackieashley9@nullgmail.com