Psychotherapy
At Out Side In, Mental Health Therapy doesn’t have to happen within the four walls of an office.
Our therapists use established, research-supported approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), EMDR, and other treatment approaches based on each client’s individual needs and goals.
Therapy can look different here. Sometimes it might just mean practicing mindfulness and regulation while walking outside on our 25-acre farm. Sometimes it means a 1,200 lb. animal joining your session.
Incorporating horses into psychotherapy gives our therapists another way to help clients move beyond simply talking about something and create opportunities to experience and practice things in the moment.
Horses respond to what is happening right now—movement, attention, approach, boundaries, and changes in their environment. Those interactions can give clients and therapists something real to notice, explore, and work with together.
A client might have an opportunity to practice a new response, tolerate frustration, recognize a pattern, communicate differently, become more aware of what is happening in their body, or discover something about themselves through the experience.
The horse isn’t the therapy, and clients do not have to work with horses in every session—or at all. How and where therapy takes place is determined by the client, their therapist, their treatment goals, and what will be most useful.
There is value in understanding why we think, feel, and respond the way we do. But knowing something intellectually and being able to experience something differently aren’t always the same thing.
Our 25-acre farm gives therapists and clients more ways to do the work—whether that’s in an office, outdoors, or alongside a horse.
Out Side In accepts most major insurance plans for individual outpatient mental health services. We are committed to making treatment accessible to those who need it, and financial assistance may be available for individuals and families experiencing financial hardship.