Phillip S. Miller Supports Children's Equine Therapy

DENVER - June 11, 2014 - PRLog -- Since 2008 Zuma's Equine Assisted Learning Programs have been improving the lives of kids suffering with everything from learning differences to mood deregulation and everything in between. At Zuma's we don't necessarily agree with mainstream thinking; the implication that fluctuating moods are disorders, we feel that moods are normal aspects of individuality and the fluctuations are often do to past traumatic experiences. Un resolved trauma would often create short-term lack of coping skills landing children in a vicious cycle of labels and medication.

Zuma's team of counselors, therapists and coaches implore many alternatives therapeutic approaches helping kids find balance in their lives and developed much needed coping skills. Goats, chickens, a pot bellied pig named Daisy Duke and a lamb named Lilly back up the horsepower of our animal assisted work.

The healing begins when kids enter our gates, the respect for others start the minute the children are paired with the animals. Mutual respect is a constant, and that respect for animal’s spills into all aspects of life. From day one the children are taught how individual energy affects those around us, to achieve harmony the children learn to honor all beings.

Mood regulation is key to our program, it is ok to have negative feelings, it is what we do with those negative feelings that makes or breaks our ability to get along in life. At Zuma’s the kids are guided through activities to learn how to work through feelings in an appropriate fashion.

If you are looking for an alternative to talk therapy to overcome behavioral challenges or sturggling with depression and or anger issues,give the heard at Zuma's Equine Assisted Learning program a chance, you may just find your best you through the eyes of a horse.