EFW-Canada is proud to share with you the work of Jules Reinforth, an EFW-Canada certified professional. Jules was featured on CBC NEWS in December 2017, in a piece entitled “'I'm not as bad a person as I thought': Horse therapy helps LGBTQ youth find their safe place”. Her work was also featured in the January 2018 issue of Equine Wellness magazine, an article entitled “Rein Forth Equine – horses helping youth”.
You can access those articles by clicking the photos below.
You can access those articles by clicking the photos below.
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New book just released this fall
 | The book Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma, Edited by Kay Sudekum Trotter and Jennifer N. Baggerly, was just released this fall. EFW-Canada has some representation in it and Sarah Schlote, an EFW-Canada member, contributed to the first two chapters of this book. Congratulations Sarah for this wonderful contribution! She spoke to the integration of Somatic Experiencing and attachment theory into equine-assisted trauma recovery (with an emphasis on how trauma-informed care principles should apply to both the humans and the animals in EAPL programs, in keeping with EFW-Canada's philosophy of ethics and equine welfare) and the structural dissociation in equine-assisted trauma therapy. |
The book also includes chapters focused on integrating EMDR, psychodynamics, and other approaches, as well as developmental trauma, sexual trauma, reactive attachment disorder, military veterans, and accident-related trauma, including both ground and mounted work. In the second appendix at the back, there is a list of trauma-focused equine-assisted training programs which included Deborah Marshall's and Sue McIntosh's programs, two of our EFW-Canada trainers.
