Promoting emotional healing & growth in partnership with horses.

This is what Great Strides is all about.

For more than ten years, our trained staff and horses have helped countless individuals and groups achieve more out of their lives. More balance. More confidence. More living.

Through specially designed interactive experiences that promote emotional healing, we build confidence, improve social skills, and help clients make positive changes in their lives. Our farm environment provides a unique setting enabling clients to address treatment issues on many different experiential levels that they might not ordinarily access in a therapists office.

                                                               

Following a comprehensive assessment session with our clients, we develop an individualized plan for growth. We evaluate progress toward goals on an ongoing basis. These goals may be emotional, behavioral, social, mental, or spiritual in nature. Facilitating activities may be done while mounted on the horse, unmounted, or may not include the horse at all, depending on the clients needs. We offer individual and small-group therapeutic settings.

Therapeutic services for individuals and groups include:

    ♦Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL)

♦Therapeutic Horsemanship (TH)

♦Psychotherapy

Clients typically attend one-hour sessions on a weekly basis. Great Strides offers convenient scheduling options, including evenings and weekends. Some services may be eligible for reimbursement under client health plans.

Custom experiences for groups of four or more are also available. We have worked with groups from homeless shelters, schools, residential psychiatric programs, and many others.

Getting Started

Contact Terry Lewis by email or by calling 301-253-1166.

A free farm tour is scheduled for prospective clients to learn more about available program options and our process.