Equine Therapy at Triple L Ranch is an experiential learning program that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal growth through equine-assisted activities. With a focus on individuals managing trauma, dealing with mental health challenges, or navigating significant life changes, we provide an environment to help create new toolsets for individuals to overcome challenges in the day-to-day.
Triple L Ranch Healing Hearts is a ground based (no riding) working with horses as our partners. Our sessions combine HeartMath Trauma Informed Care and Equine Assisted Learning.
What we provide:
- Safe experiential learning environment
- Certified Equine facilitators to assist you in your journey toward healing and personal growth
- Identify patterns and consider their usefulness
- Invitation to practice new behaviors
- Receiving real time feedback to new behaviors
- An opportunity to explore new ways of healthy self expression
- Development of life and communication skills
- Reciprocity and warmth as a result of the relationship-building with our horses
Program fees:
$165 per 50-90-minute session. Summer discount 15% off for kama’aina Code ALOHA / Package discounts are available for multiple sessions.
Kind words from our participants
I experienced a fairly traumatic childhood full of emotional neglect, grief, and general tumultuous-ness, and a difficult time as a teenager where more trauma occurred. As a young adult, I began trying to work through these things because I recognized that my coping methods were very detrimental and unhealthy… self harm, eating disorders, and other numbing behaviors. Tried therapy on and off. I was trying really hard to begin to heal when I experienced an extremely traumatic loss- it felt like any progress I’d made was wiped away and I was completely broken and lost. Therapy felt pointless. Hope for the future and myself comes and goes for me.
All this being said, it isn’t until coming to Paige and having her facilitate EAL/Natural Lifemanship sessions with her and her horses that I’ve experienced true, consistent hope again. This is partially because it’s wonderful to work with someone who has such a pure vision, who truly wants to help the next generation of Hawaiians and locals succeed and have a more hopeful future full of tools and skills. It also is because this work works; through being with the horses and practicing the breathing exercises I can almost always feel an immediate difference in my anxiety levels. It’s done wonders for my nervous system. For a long time I’ve felt unable to be calm down, unable to take a full breath, just going from thing to thing to distract myself. Working with the horses has taught me to breathe and engage with the present. And even though this work is work, it brings up hard stuff and can be uncomfortable, it’s the first form of therapy I’ve experienced that leaves me feeling hopeful and generally better afterwards rather than drained and more hopeless. I’ve felt more of a difference (and improvement) in my overall mental state in the almost 4 months I’ve been working with Paige than I have in the last 4 years, and I think that speaks volumes.
— Anonymous participant
Meet your Therapy Team
Our facilitators are certified EAL professionals and trained in the Resilient Heart: Trauma Sensitive program. Please note that they are not licensed therapists or psychotherapists, and we do not work with medical insurance for the program at this time.
Maurissa
Paige
Ava
Leslie
Jay
Our healing horses are well trained and suited for our programs. They each have amazing personalities and are free here to express themselves as the deeply loving crew they are.
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
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The HeartMath Institute has been researching the heart-brain connection and learning how the heart influences our perceptions, emotions, intuition and health. The program helps tap into the power and intelligence of your heart which awakens you to the best version of yourself. Tuning into the heart’s wisdom creates a profound shift within that helps the individual approach situations with more emotional balance, compassion, clarity and personal confidence.
We use Hearthmath’s programs and tools: Heart-Focused Breathing Technique™, Quick Coherence® Technique, Heart Lock-In® Technique, Freeze Frame® Technique, HeartSoak™ Technique Shift, and Lift™ Technique.
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Equine-assisted learning (EAL) is an experiential learning approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. Through a collaborative experiential learning process, participants use past experience, trial and error, reflection, generalization and metaphors to facilitate learning.
EAL helps clients seeking:
* Better understanding of themselves
* Team building and role definition for families, groups, teams and community
* Increased self-esteem and body awareness
* Recovery from trauma, loss or substance abuse
* Improved communication and coping skills
* Parent skill building/training
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The unique relationship found between the client and the horse with TSHR ground based equine program often leads to benefits including but not limited to:
* Greater sense and understanding of self
* Increased ability to ask for what you need and want
* Improved concentration and problem solving skills
* Increased self-esteem and confidence
* Improved communication and listening skills
* Finding your voice
* Feeling acceptance/belonging
* Feeling less frazzled
* Development of trust
* Feeling better prepared to balance responsibilities
* Vision about what they want for their life
* More clarity on how to support your family and not lose yourself
* Building social skills
* Increased assertiveness
* Decreased aggressiveness
* Enhanced motivation and energy
* Improvements in self-control
* Learning to master fears
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Individuals of all ages and levels of cognitive development can benefit from EAL at TLRHH. Clinical studies suggest that EAL is effective in treating:
* Depression
* Anxiety
* Low self-esteem
* Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
* Behavioral problems
* Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
* Autism
* Tourette’s syndrome
* Conduct disorder
* Aggression and Substance abuse
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8 yrs old and up. Younger children may be considered depending on the individual circumstance. Please contact us for assistance.
Contact us for more information
Please contact us to request more information and visit our Nonprofit organization The Spirit Horse Ranch for funded programs. We are currently developing a variety of EAL programs. If you would like to support our vision and mission for Maui, please click the link below.