Serving
upstate South Carolina (SC) and the web....
Parents,
is your teen driving you crazy?
Let horses helping troubled teen help
you if...
You are
at your wits end trying to deal with your teen?
You
have tried everything—and then some—and nothing has worked?
Your
teen is resistant to therapy or unresponsive to it?
And
"discipline"? Forget it.
Get help for your teen and yourself here...
Information on parenting skills, underlying psychobiology and
neurobiology, various teen mental health issues and problems,
treatment, and more...
But first,
Meet
Apache (foreground), an eight year old mustang and Mustang Sally.
Helping troubled teens and adults is what they do. In a way
Apache is the
"troubled teen" of our horses. He can
be
a real "pill" to work with. But, he is also a great therapist in the
process! We use the EAGALA
model for equine-assisted
counseling.
Want to know more about how this works? Read on...
In
this section we discuss why you can't BS a horse, that's BS as in bull
sh**, and why horses can be so effective in helping teens, adolescents
and adults with their mental health issues. We also discuss some of the
research that is available.
Horse
Tip: Horse sense is the thing a horse has that keeps him
from betting on people.--W.C. Fields
Here are the other major links leading to more details in each area:
Is the doorway to info about teen psychological problems and related
issues. Anxiety, depression, Asperger's syndrome, attachment issues,
and much, much more...
One of
the most important sections of the website. It draws on Dr. Y's
background in biology and psychology to help you understand you and
your teen
and how to help yourself as well as your teen. There are some important
psychobiological differences between teens and adults that are
discussed in this section. Changes at the psychobiological level, in
terms of healing, brain
development, and health, are keys to helping your teen. Much of this
section also applies to adults. Learn about the
teen brain, mirror neurons, and more...
Here
we explore the relationship of Jungian archetypes and symbols to
healing and personal and spiritual growth. Archetypes are viewed not
only in the light of classical Jungian psychology, but also in terms of
their underlying psychobiology, evolution, and genetics, and in
relation to spirit guides of the ancient and indigenous peoples. This
section also has links on how to meet and use your own personal
archetypes.
Psychospirituality
involves the interface between psychology and spirituality. In our
case, we come to this topic in terms of its psychobiology also, in an
area that can be called psychobio-spirituality. In this section of the
website we discuss unitive and ecstatic experiences, the related
Buddhist experiences of samadi and satori--their experiences and
underlying psychobiology--, neurotheology, vision quests, sweat lodges,
and more...
Featuring articles and musings about horse adventures, interesting
cases, experiences, philosophy, spirituality, and psychobiology by
Darrell Yardley, PhD, LPC.
