Change Your Lead: Psychotherapy & Wellness with Horses

Change Your Lead:  Psychotherapy & Wellness with Horses EAP is “hands on” in nature and involves activities that are aimed at treatment goals. Sessions currently offered in Woodside and Winters, CA.

Psychotherapy and Wellness Offerings with Horses

Change Your Lead is made up of a group of licensed clinicians and equine professionals who incorporate horses into mental health treatment and wellness offerings. EAP involves a team of a licensed psychologist, an equine specialist and equine staff. Clients are encouraged to find solutions to their current difficulties through exercises aimed at helping them understand how they interact with others and the world around them. Horses are an integral part of this process as they provide neutral, immediate and nonverbal feedback, enhancing the learning experience. EAL involves equine based activities that are not therapy, per se, but are certainly therapeutic in nature. An example of this is skill building through a social skills learning group, violence prevention, team building, early interventions for at-risk youth and classroom visits. All sessions conducted by a CA licensed clinical psychologist: Angela Sherman, Ph.D. CA License #: PSY 23689.

Curious about Equine Assisted Services and how horses can support mental health work? 💭🐴Sign up for Introduction to Psyc...
03/24/2026

Curious about Equine Assisted Services and how horses can support mental health work? 💭🐴

Sign up for Introduction to Psychotherapy with Horses! This workshop is led by our founder, Dr. Angela, a licensed clinical psychologist with a long-standing interest in human-animal interactions and incorporating animals into therapeutic work. We’ll explore the foundations of the field, the unique role horses play in the therapeutic process, and give you a chance to experience it firsthand. A great opportunity for both professionals and anyone interested in discovering if this approach is the right fit for their goals.

📍https://www.changeyourlead.com/educational

Hello Spring! 🌱🌷As we enter this season of renewal and growth, we are in awe of the beauty that abounds - from the incre...
03/20/2026

Hello Spring! 🌱🌷
As we enter this season of renewal and growth, we are in awe of the beauty that abounds - from the increased animal movement to the resurgence of buds and blooms. Wishing all of us some brightness within the transformation and vitality of the season.

Looking for tools to manage emotions and build self-confidence in all of your equestrian endeavors? Change Your Lead is ...
03/19/2026

Looking for tools to manage emotions and build self-confidence in all of your equestrian endeavors?

Change Your Lead is excited to announce this new clinic hosted by Vetter, PsyD! Sign up for Embodied Equestrians: Managing What Gets in the Way today, spaces are limited!

📍 www.changeyourlead.com/educational

Spring has nearly sprung! 🍀We have a fabulous line up of workshops and events on the schedule! 🐴Sign up to today and we'...
03/17/2026

Spring has nearly sprung! 🍀
We have a fabulous line up of workshops and events on the schedule! 🐴
Sign up to today and we'll see you at the stable! 🌞

April 12th, Horse Care for the Soul - contact us for more information!
April 26th, Embodied Equestrians: Managing What Gets in the Way
May 3rd, Interconn-EQ-ted
June 14th, Introduction to Psychotherapy with Horses

Visit our website for additional information: www.changeyourlead.com

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03/16/2026

Don’t forget to fact check! 💭

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03/11/2026

Horses helping humans! 💛

What is Equine Assisted Services (EAS) and why do we incorporate horses?✏️ Equine Assisted Services represents a broad r...
03/10/2026

What is Equine Assisted Services (EAS) and why do we incorporate horses?

✏️ Equine Assisted Services represents a broad range of services that incorporate horses into treatment to help people. At Change Your Lead, our focus is on the mental health and wellness sector of EAS. All of our sessions involve a licensed mental health professional, a certified equine professional and of course, the horses!

🐴 Our sessions offer an experiential process where participants are invited to learn about themselves through interactions with horses. Horses are social beings and masters at living in the moment - responding to the present experience rather than worrying about the future or reflecting on the past.

🌱 Since we don’t tend to leave who we are “at the gate”, interactions with the horses provide an opportunity to explore relational dynamics, patterns, beliefs, interpretations and responses. Clients explore these topics during their time with the horses and with the support of the human team members, process the information and choose what shifts they are empowered to bring into day to day life.

📍 Find out more on our website at ChangeYourLead.com!

🦄 We are very excited to announce our new workshop; Horse Care for the Soul!🌱 In this monthly offering, we will spend ti...
03/03/2026

🦄 We are very excited to announce our new workshop; Horse Care for the Soul!

🌱 In this monthly offering, we will spend time learning basic equine knowledge and the unique principles of caring for a therapeutic herd through hands-on experiences with our herd members. Horses offer such a grounding and genuine presence, and through caring for them we invite a different connection to caring for ourselves.

🗓 We will be offering the first three sessions at a discounted rate ($30/session), subsidized as part of the 2025 Horses for Mental Health (HMH) campaign fundraiser. Sessions are once per month on Sundays.

💌 If interested, please send us an email at ChangeYourLead@gmail.com! Space is limited.

The Change Your Lead team is excited to present our 2026 workshop & wellness line up! 🦄 Join us for one or join us for ...
03/02/2026

The Change Your Lead team is excited to present our 2026 workshop & wellness line up!

🦄 Join us for one or join us for all! We are looking forward to learning, playing, leading, following, listening, grounding and so much more

🧘‍♂️ We also have openings for individual sessions; psychotherapy with horses facilitated by a team of licensed clinician, equine professional and horses

📍 Visit our website, ChangeYourLead.com, for registration and additional details. We are so excited to share these offerings with all of you! See you at the stable!

We educate mental health professionals about the field of equine assisted psychotherapy (EAP), by providing adjunct equine assisted therapy services to treatment programs, workshops for graduate level students and licensed professionals who want to incorporate horses into their mental health practic

02/28/2026

Our 2026 workshop line up is here! Join us for one or join us for all! We are looking forward to learning, playing, leading, following, listening, grounding and so much more 🦄

🌱 March 15 - When life feels heavy, meet the herd at the stable! Quiet the busyness of our minds and welcome the present experience

🐴 April 12 - Horse Care for the Soul. A monthly offering of equine knowledge and the unique principals of caring for a herd

😌 April 26 - Embodied Equestrians: Managing what gets in the way. Learn tools for managing emotions and building self-confidence in a sports psychology clinic with Dr. Caroline

🌿 May 3 - InterconnEQtedness. Slow down and connect with the herd and nature around us

📖 June 14 - Introduction to psychotherapy with horses. Explore the field of Equine Assisted Services and the benefits of incorporating horses into mental health treatment

🧘‍♂️ We also have openings for individual sessions. Psychotherapy with horses, facilitated by a team of licensed clinician, equine professional and horses

Visit our website for registration and additional details. We are so excited to share these wonderful 2026 offerings with all of you! See you at the stable!

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02/26/2026

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Petaluma, CA

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