Both systematic and evidence-based and therefore grounded in established scientific and psychological principles, EFHD is an ever-unfolding process, tailored to your needs and goals, guided by your emotional, psychological and physiological states and responses along with those of the horses in any given moment.

The practice of EFHD promotes congruence – the knowing that our actions and projections of ourselves are in alignment with our internal sense of our authentic self – through refining our understanding of and sensitivity to our own emotional experience and how this is felt in the body and perceived by the mind. You will begin to differentiate between your instinctive intuition, emotional reactivity, grounded responsiveness, social conditioning and cognitive distortions. In doing so, you will recognise how these show up in your daily life and enhance your sensitivity to others. Many, sometimes all, of these processes occur below our conscious awareness until we do the work to attune to the information our brains and bodies are receiving from our environment and from within. And this is where the horses come in. Forming a connection with them through primarily non-verbal, felt mechanisms deepens our connection to our own internal world in all its complexity.