EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Are you ready to heal your burnout and feel more vitality? I work with driven high performance professionals to regain nervous system balance and find success personally and professionally, with the powerful presence of horses as a potent guide to deeper transformation. During your horse sessions with me, you’ll relax and renew on a deeper level.
“You see a horse with your eyes, but you feel a horse with your soul. “ - Unknown
IS THIS FOR ME ?
This is for you if you are an individual who is currently working as a high performance professional, or have worked prior to retirement as a high performance professional, and are struggling with burnout or the early signs of burnout, sleep issues, anxiety, vicarious trauma and/or compassion fatigue.
This is for you if you are seeking a highly customized, neuroscience-supported therapeutic approach and are intellectual, refined and looking for a deeper understanding of your true and authentic nature.
This is for you if you are stable with respect to your home, your relationships, your finances, your mental health and your physical health.
This is for you if you are psychologically minded, meaning that you are curious about how you exist in the world, what you are aware of, and how your subconscious and unconscious patterns influence your day to day decisions.
This is for you if you are a physician or executive professional currently working but feeling on the edge of burnout and needing time off work, but do not have any necessary and untreated medical or psychiatric issues.
WELCOME
Welcome, I am a board certified psychiatrist, holistic horse therapist, horse medicine guide and internationally certified executive and leadership coach. I offer high performance professionals a powerful path to healing from burnout with the “medicine” that horses bring when we enter into the space with them in a specific way. Influenced strongly by research in equine-assisted interventions and the logic of the related nervous system and physics, my services and studies create a unique program for you to grow your true inner vitality, brilliance and ability to adapt to challenges.
I am deeply passionate about personal transformation. With extensive training in coaching and therapy with horses, I am thrilled to finally launch my equine-assisted therapy practice. Although equine-assisted therapy is not yet covered by MSP in British Columbia, the growing understanding of the power of equine-facilitated interventions to bring insight to your areas of struggle and challenge, is quite majestic.
HORSE SESSIONS
We provide horse sessions as equine-assisted psychotherapy sessions, where you begin with a virtual session, and follow up depending on the service you book, with an in person session. Note that the horse-guided services are for complimentary and alternative support, and do not replace medically necessary treatment that is supported through publicly funded medical services plans. There are three tiers of services, as listed below.
The Neuro-Equine Single Deep Dive
A 50 minute live-streamed somatic session with access to guided experiences that both prepare you for the session and deepen your practice after the session. This is to sample a single herd-guided breakthrough session.
The Somatic Reset Package
6 live-streamed 1:1 neuro-equine sessions with a hard cover copy of the accompanying book, a full professional guided meditation suite, and a custom nervous system integration workbook. This is an intensive triage for a physician or executive on the brink of leave from work due to vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue or severe burnout.
The Mountain Sanctuary Pinnacle Experience
4 online preparatory Neuro-Equine Sessions followed by an exclusive In Person Intensive with the herd, later followed by 2 online integration / post-care sessions.
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SOVEREIGN MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY
Situated on the unceded traditional territory of the Líl̓wat Nation, we honour the language, culture, and history of the Lil̓wat7ul
The story of the establishment of Sovereign Mountain Sanctuary began in a challenging time, where the seed for this luxurious and stunning location began with a note of challenge. While that story is private, the longing that grew in my soul for a sanctuary was the fuel that led to our majestic mountain ranch. The longing was the perfect “medicine” to galvanize a long held dream to hold a private sanctuary for burnout prevention and recovery, into existence.
Sovereign Mountain Sanctuary holds a space for healing, renewal and deep intuitive insight. With the horses as accompanying guides, and the land as a quiet remote location laden with glacier-topped mountain ranges, the sanctuary is a beautiful place to rest and deepen into a sense of your true self, that guides you better through your days. The journey with Sovereign Mountain Sanctuary is steeped in the enriched language of neuroscience, helping you to understand your process and support burnout recovery with relevant neuroscience.
The story of Sovereign Mountain Sanctuary holds a more mystical presence, beginning with my first ever owned horse, Sterling Galaxy. Sterling Galaxy is the powerful horse who began the journey, after he ran across a field to choose me as his guardian and keeper. He grew from a skinny bedraggled sad horse into a resplendent glowing mainly white horse who commands a magnetic presence, drawing people into his aura of healing and inspiration. He gathered our next horse, Chance Apache, into our fold, and together we moved to be with the gelding King of Hearts in his mountain home. As we claimed and developed our own land, and King of Hearts left us to become a spirit, Eclipse Athus was called in to provide companionship. The universe worked in mysterious ways, to make it much more easeful for another horse to come with Eclipse to our mountain home, and Apollo Paulo, who was a horse that I had visited for over a year with my visits to Eclipse, joined us to create a very stable, four horse herd.
Sovereign Mountain Sanctuary is over five acres of forest, fields, horse shelters and an arena that supports a space in nature next to the wilds of Crown Land and away from the bustle of busy urban centres. Here, you meet the horses in a manner where the horses and yourself and all beings are held in respect and honour, to deepen into the access of the truth of the healing that you require.
Dr. Love’s Credentials
Board Certified Psychiatrist | Horse Medicine Leadership Certification | Neuroscience Faculty for the Academy of Horse Medicine Leadership | Holistic Horse Therapy Certification | Mindfulness Certification with advanced training in MiCBT | Medical Degree at the University of British Columbia | Psychiatry Degree at the University of British Columbia | Awards for BCMJ Authour and BrainTalks at UBC Founder and Director | Physics & Biology Degree at the University of British Columbia | Dance Degree at Simon Fraser Contemporary Arts School | Bachelor of General Studies at Simon Fraser University | Honours English First Year at the University of Western Ontario | Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor with Mike Nichols 200 hour YTT, Meghan Currie 200 hour YTT and Hilary Keegan YHot 90 hour YTT