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Equine-Assisted Counselling With Your Own Horse

Mobile Equine Therapy for Horse Owners in Victoria & Southern Vancouver Island

Deepen the connection between you and your horse through somatic awareness and relational counselling

Do you feel a special connection with your horse and want to better understand the relationship you share?

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Are you curious about how your emotions, body awareness, nervous system responses, and communication patterns influence your connection with your horse?

 

I offer mobile equine-assisted counselling with your own horse, bringing trauma-informed, somatic, and relational therapy directly to your barn or horse’s location.

This unique approach supports horse owners who want to deepen trust, confidence, emotional awareness, communication, and connection through the human-horse relationship.

 

Equine-assisted counselling may be especially supportive for horse owners experiencing:

  • Anxiety, stress, overwhelm, or emotional burnout

  • Fear, self-doubt, or loss of confidence around horses

  • Riding confidence challenges or returning to horses after difficult experiences

  • Trauma recovery and the impact of past experiences on relationships and connection

  • Difficulty regulating emotions or feeling grounded in the body

  • Challenges with trust, boundaries, communication, and relational patterns

  • Life transitions, grief, loss, or major changes

  • A desire to deepen connection, partnership, and understanding with their horse

  • A desire for personal growth through an experiential, nature-based therapy approach

 

Through somatic nervous system awareness and relational counselling, we explore how your experiences, emotions, and patterns show up within your relationship with your horse. Your horse becomes part of the therapeutic process, offering opportunities for greater self-awareness, confidence, regulation, and connection.

 

This work is not horse training or riding instruction. It is counselling with your horse as a relational partner, supporting personal growth and the unique bond between horse and human.

 

Serving horse owners in Victoria, Brentwood Bay, Saanich, Sidney, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Langford, and surrounding Vancouver Island communities.

Your Horse. Your Relationship. Your Healing Journey.

A Three-Session Equine-Assisted Counselling Package 

This specialized package combines counselling sessions with an on-site equine-assisted session to explore your relationship with yourself and your horse.

 

Session 1: Counselling Assessment & Relationship Exploration

50-minute counselling session

We begin by exploring:

  • your relationship with your horse

  • what you would like to deepen or understand

  • your emotional responses and experiences

  • nervous system patterns and stress responses

  • your goals for personal growth and connection

This session creates the foundation for meaningful equine-assisted counselling.

 

Session 2: Mobile Equine-Assisted Counselling With Your Horse

90-minute on-site session at your barn

Working with your own horse, we explore:

  • nervous system awareness and regulation

  • presence, communication, and attunement

  • trust and connection

  • emotional responses within the relationship

  • patterns of approach, avoidance, confidence, and boundaries

  • how to increase probability of more confidence for you and your horse

Your horse becomes part of the therapeutic process, offering opportunities to notice, reflect, and build deeper relational awareness.

No riding experience is required. This work is not horse training or riding instruction, it is counselling focused on the human-horse relationship.

 

Session 3: Integration & Continued Growth

50-minute counselling session

We reflect on your experience and explore:

  • insights gained through the equine session

  • changes in awareness and connection

  • emotional patterns that emerged

  • ways to continue building trust, communication, and relational connection with your horse

 

Mobile Equine-Assisted Counselling Package: $650

Your package includes:

🐴 Initial counselling session (50 minutes)
🐴 On-site equine-assisted counselling session with your horse (90 minutes)
🐴 Integration counselling session (50 minutes)

Available as a mobile service throughout Victoria, Saanich, Brentwood Bay, Sidney, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Langford, and surrounding Southern Vancouver Island communities.

A complimentary 15-minute consultation is available to discuss your goals and determine if this approach is the right fit.

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Additional Counselling Options for Children, Youth & Adults

​Equine-assisted counselling can be part of a broader therapeutic journey. In addition to mobile sessions with your own horse, I offer individual counselling for children, youth, teens, adults, couples, and families through my private practice.

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Counselling support is available for concerns including:

  • Anxiety and excessive worry

  • Depression and low mood

  • ADHD and neurodivergence support

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) support

  • Emotional regulation challenges and big emotions

  • Stress, overwhelm, and burnout

  • Trauma, difficult experiences, and life transitions

  • Grief and loss

  • Confidence, self-esteem, and identity development

  • Social challenges, relationships, and communication

  • Parenting and family concerns

  • Difficulty expressing emotions through traditional talk therapy

Counselling sessions are available:

  • In my Victoria-area clinic setting

  • Through equine-assisted counselling with the Horse Wisdom therapy herd in Brentwood Bay

  • Online throughout British Columbia and Canada

My approach integrates child and youth counselling, trauma-informed therapy, somatic approaches, mindfulness, expressive arts, art therapy, and equine-assisted counselling to support emotional wellbeing, resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful change.

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hello@nightingalepsychotherapy.ca

address: 304-895 Fort Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 1H7

text or call: 587-400-3179 

©2026 by Ania Telfer

Psychotherapy, counselling, and art therapy services for children, youth, teens, adults, couples, families, and veterans, offered by Ania Telfer, M.C., Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC). My practice provides child and youth counselling, trauma-informed therapy, anxiety support, emotional regulation support, and mental health counselling using a blend of somatic, attachment-based, mindfulness, expressive arts, art therapy, and equine-assisted counselling approaches.

I support children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety, ADHD, neurodivergence, trauma, emotional regulation challenges, life transitions, relationship concerns, grief, stress, and personal growth. My specialized services include equine-assisted counselling with horses, Equusoma®-informed approaches, and creative arts-based therapy to support healing, resilience, self-awareness, and emotional wellbeing.

I offer in-person counselling and equine-assisted therapy services in Victoria, British Columbia, including Brentwood Bay, Saanich, Langford, Sidney, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Colwood, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, View Royal, and surrounding Greater Victoria communities.

Secure online counselling, psychotherapy, and art therapy are available for clients throughout British Columbia and Canada.

Nightingale Psychotherapy respectfully acknowledges that and with immense gratitude the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples on southern Vancouver Island.

I am grateful to the Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and community members who have cared for these lands across generations, those who are with us today, those who have gone before us, and those yet to come.

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