Come join us for our annual community event and fundraiser: Farm Day 2024. Meet the Helping Hands therapy horses, and take part in one of our demos, where we show you how Equine Therapy works. From 10 to 1 we will be hosting tours of the Sanctuary, where you can meet the horses and animals, including kitties, rabbits, sheep, goats, llamas, miniature horses and donkeys. We also have therapy birds, including our 2 geese, Sunshine and Isabella and Chad the therapy rooster and his wife Dolly. This year we are fundraising for two very special therapy horses:
Lexy who has melanoma and needs a vaccine series to help keep her cancer from spreading. We are also raising money for Rhapsodie, our beautiful healer, who needs to have an eye removed that is causing her a lot of pain and drains constantly. Our goal is $5000 for each horse, to cover the necessary surgery and veterinary expenses. If you can’t join us, you can still help by donating via our PaPal link on our website. www.helpinghandshorse.org
All donations are 100% tax-deductible and greatly appreciated. Please share our reel. Sanctuary address is 17250 NE Lewis Rogers Lane, in Newberg, Oregon
Yesterday at Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary we helped facilitate a corporate teambuilding event for a local counseling group. Utilizing the horses, we helped them explore their goal to promote unity and growth for their team.
They learned about trust, feeling safe to be vulnerable, while being caring, compassionate and nurturing to each other.
It was a huge success, and everyone had lots of fun!!
If you would like to experience a very unique learning opportunity with our highly trained staff and equine partners, to improve problem solving, generate opportunities for changes in team performance, staff development, or cooperation, please contact us for a team building event tailored to the special needs of your business.
Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary is hoping to resume our group therapy sessions by Summer 2021 if everything continues to go in the right direction. We will be offering group equine therapy sessions for the following groups: Adolescent girls ages 11-17 and adolescent boys ages 11-17 (focus will be anxiety, depression, bullying and suicidal tendencies) Boys and Girls will each have their own sessions separately. Women and Men in recovery. Both these groups will be conducted separately and must be over 18 years of age. We are starting an eating disorder group in adolescent girls (11-17), and a Suicide loss survivors group (all ages and sexes) as well as a Grieving group (all ages, sexes) If you have an interest in signing up for any of these groups, please contact us now, as we have a limit, and the sessions fill up fast. The sessions are a 6 week commitment and $40 per session.
Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary is a refuge for people and animals alike, needing love, security, healing and just a safe place to be. We take in animals in need of homes and give them a purpose. Just like humans, animals need to feel loved and feel like they have a reason for existing. We give them that purpose by letting them love and heal people. Most of the animals residing here are used for some sort of therapy.
Seen here in this video is one of our newest therapy animals, Antea the donkey, in a therapy session with a child. She came to us from southern California a few months ago and became a huge hit with the kids. She is an awesome therapist: intuitive, loving, kind and resilient. As part of a new program, she will be bringing joy and love to the aged in local assisted living residences. We feel so blessed to have her as part of our healing team!
Rose Sullivan Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy
17250 NE Lewis Rogers Lane
Newberg, OR 97132
Phone: 805-551-6336
Email: rsullivanse@gmail.com
Donations help us take care of all the therapy animals, and be able to provide equine therapy to those in need, at no charge. Thus, donations help us as our mission statement states, to utilize the healing abilities of animals to help people rise to their full potential.
Equine Assisted Therapy is incorporating the experiential use of horses in therapy for the purpose of emotional growth and learning. It is a collaborative effort between a therapist, a professional horse specialist, the horses and the client(s). This is an experiential mode of therapy, which means it is based on activities on the ground with the horses. These activities can then be processed to understand emotions, behaviors, and patterns which can lead to change.
Horses are highly sensitive animals, so they mirror the emotions we bring into the arena; drawing out information we may not even know or be aware of.