Horses Helping Humans
Horse Time is a SCIO that facilitates the delivery of evidence-based mental health and trauma interventions with feedback from horses. This unique combination builds on the known benefits of evidence-based processes by harnessing the psychological and emotional benefits of working in partnership with a therapeutic herd of horses.
Why do we work with horses?
Horses are able to give immediate, honest and non-judgemental feedback on how our behaviour is interpreted by others. Their ability to see the person behind the coping strategy validates that person’s lived experience, creates trust and provides the co-regulation necessary to catalyse the change process.
How does Horse Time create change?
Experienced trauma therapists, informed by the authentic feedback provided by the horses, utilise appropriate tools, strategies and evidence-based processes to increase client awareness and provide the insight necessary to support the change process and subsequent recovery.
We have the right skills to make a difference
Our unique blend of expertise caters for a wide variety of needs, ensuring the best possible outcomes for our beneficiaries, in a safe and supportive natural environment.
But it's all about funding
The biggest challenge Horse Time faces is to fund the ever-increasing number of beneficiaries desperately trying to access the transformational solutions we can offer.
And we need your help to do our work
The more funding we can raise, the more people we will be able to help. We need your help to ensure that we can expand our programmes to help transform the lives of many more people. Please donate now
Who we are and what we do
Our programmes
Our programmes create the opportunity for personal, emotional and relational learning insights that ultimately enable people to process and resolve their difficulties, form better relationships with others, and reach their full, unique potential.
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Resilience and regulation – strategies for life
This programme addresses a wide range of problems that emerge from difficulties in emotional and relationship management.
By increasing personal awareness, we are able to recognise and manage our emotions and triggers more effectively.
As we become more resilient, we are better equipped to set healthy boundaries and build positive connections and relationships in order to create and live the life we want.
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Understanding Behaviour – from self-sabotage to successful strategies
Follows on from Resilience and Regulation – Strategies for Life
This programme explores psychological frameworks, which help to explain our behaviour. By discovering which core beliefs drive our emotions, thoughts and behaviours, we are able to separate ourselves from our coping strategies.
This allows us to determine which strategies are successful and replace those that are sabotaging our lives and preventing us from reaching our full unique potential.
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Depression – activate your life
In this programme we help you to explore the behavioural patterns of depression and learn how these behaviours impact your mood. We support you to make strategic changes that will help you alleviate your depression and take charge of your life.
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Anxiety – rewire your anxious brain
This programme helps you to understand the differences between worry, anxiety, panic and fear.
We teach you how to identify where your anxiety comes from and use healthy coping strategies to modify your thought patterns and manage distress.
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Understanding your neurodiversity
This programme helps you to understand your neurodiversity and the challenges you may face on a daily basis. We resource you to manage overwhelm more successfully, develop healthy coping strategies, feel more confident and improve your relationships.
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Understanding neurodiversity
This programme helps to demystify neurodiversity. We explore diagnostic criteria, challenging behaviour and coping strategies, as well as supporting and resourcing those working with or caring for neurodiverse people with alternative, more successful, communication and regulation techniques.
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Resourcing children through family therapy
This programme helps children to cope, and resources parents to support themselves and their children through times of distress.
We provide a safe space that enables honest communication and recognition for all individuals, helping to create family harmony and resilience.
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Horses for Forces
This programme addresses the needs of veterans struggling to transition successfully into civilian life following military service.
By helping veterans to recognise their triggers and manage their difficult emotions more effectively, they are able to improve their ability to connect and communicate more successfully with family, friends, and the wider community. This can often lead to better employment opportunities.
Horses for Forces Plus 1
Under the Horses for Forces umbrella, we also run a programme to resource those closest to veterans, and help them to understand how their loved one’s difficulties may affect their daily functioning, relationships and family life.
Resourcing Forces Families
This programme addresses a wide range of difficulties that can affect forces’ families, with a particular focus on helping children to cope, and resourcing parents to support themselves and their children through times of distress.
We provide a safe space that enables honest communication and recognition for all individuals, helping to create family harmony and resilience.
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Individual trauma therapy
Horse Time also delivers bespoke programmes of individual trauma therapy. We recommend attendance of at least the Resilience and Regulation workshop programme before beginning individual work.
This prepares beneficiaries by increasing self-awareness and understanding of their experiences, and resources them with the tools they need to build the resilience required for successful trauma processing.
Attending additional workshop programmes has a positive impact on the efficacy and sustainability of therapeutic outcomes.
For an update on our latest activities, see our Annual Review Summary 2019/20:
For topline information on Horse Time and our various programmes, see our brochure:
“As soon as I started working with Horses the effect was immediate. For the first time in years I felt like I could breathe again…”
Vince, King’s Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) veteran with PTSD
Our team
The success of our team lies in the individual skill set and experience each member brings to the delivery of our programmes. This combined with our value-based approach enables us to provide the best possible experience and outcomes for each beneficiary.
“Horse Time has given me a better understanding of the human condition. I have learnt a new script about how to ‘be’ in social situations.”
Maia, Aspergic
Why good therapy is essential to wellbeing
Find out how our horses gave one ex-serviceman a new lease of life
How to get in touch
Phone
01890 251108
Address
Horse Time SCIO, The Steading, Little Swinton, Coldstream, Berwickshire TD12 4HH
We are located on a farm called Little Swinton in
the Scottish Borders, approximately 12 miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed.