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You know, I
find it therapeutic just to feed the horses, so I can’t imagine why you
could not use it in a casual term, but we could not make claims to do therapy
in metal health, I think…
I do
therapeutic riding with out a PT or OT, but we don’t do hippo therapy,
but things to enhance other programs.
When giving “plain”
riding lessons, I still use principals learned in EAP untraining, getting the
riders to think about what works and what doesn’t and not holding to the “rules
of horsemanship” so much. I have watched some pretty interesting haltering
sessions with kids and it’s fun to see their lights go on when they
figure out how to get the halter on and have it “work”!
The students
who show their horses get more “instructional” lessons, but I still
set them up to find what works. I keep telling them it’s just like life,
if they don’t know where they want to go, they won’t get there.
Jeanne Stucker
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