During Horse Initiate Psychotherapy (HIP) sessions, most of the work is done on the ground. Horse Initiated Psychotherapy is not a riding lesson. Horses are sometimes kept in a herd setting. Clients can observe their own instinctive ways of being in the world, and in their family by interacting with horses and watching horses’ interaction with each other. 

One of my students told me this amazing story of how she took what she learned from me during a HIP weekend and applied it weeks later:

“I saw a horse, who held the “good enough man” energy I am wanting to attract in my life. So I connected into my body and resonated Core Being and aligned for him to stop eating grass and walk over to me. When he didn’t immediately come running, I started feeling inadequate and tried to pull his energy toward me. Remembering what Carolyn had taught me, I quickly stopped this tactic, stopped distorting my energy field and shifted back to the embodied-brilliance within me. When I next looked up, I saw an even more amazing chestnut horse standing right there in front of me. He held stronger, positive male energy than the first horse! So of course, I lost myself again and began to waver from my fullness. So I told myself that I am enough to meet him equally. I can do this! As I recovered from my brief wobble, this magnificent being brought the original gray horse close to me and both of them were standing there, mirroring to me my own ability to align within myself. After this experience I now believe I can create the magic and partnership I dream to create!”
And 1 month later she found that man! You too can experience what Mindy created for herself.