Amazing Teambuilding event at Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary!!

by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Horse Rescue | Equine Therapy

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.

Spring is coming! Covid is slowing down! Excited for lots of good things coming!!!

by admin | Feb 21, 2021 | Horse Rescue | Equine Therapy

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.

Antea the donkey healing kids!!

by admin | Feb 6, 2020 | Horse Rescue | Equine Therapy

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!

Longtime volunteer built our therapy goats this beautiful shelter (goatopia)

by Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy | Nov 5, 2019 | Horse Rescue | Equine Therapy

Gold Award Girl Scouts – Jessica Knight

Jessica Knight is a recent Thousand Oaks High School graduate and avid animal lover. She’s spent the last six summers volunteering at the Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary farm in Newberg, Oregon, which specializes in farm animal therapy. Individuals that come to the farm for healing and equine therapy cover every walk of life, including veterans, addiction recovery groups, foster children, troubled youth, and those seeking treatment for anxiety and depression.

Welcome ANTEA the miniature donkey!!

by Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy | Mar 6, 2019 | Horse Rescue | Equine Therapy

Hello sweet girl!!!

Welcome Antea the miniature donkey! Antea comes to us from Malibu, California. She is a super sweet little girl and will be an invaluable addition to our equine therapy program. Here at Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary we provide Equine Therapy using the Eagala model for those in need of healing. Please check out our website for information and signups for our group therapy sessions that we provide for anxiety and depression for adolescents, a alcohol recovery group for women, and family therapy for veterans and much more.

Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary to host Equine Therapy Fundamentals Training!!

by Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy | Jan 24, 2019 | Horse Rescue | Equine Therapy

Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary is proud to announce we are hosting a Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Fundamentals Training on May 1-5, 2019. If you are a Mental Health provider, or are a horse lover who has dreamed of using horses for healing, this will be an experience of a lifetime!! Please visit the Eagala website and read about the type of work we do here with the horses at Helping Hands Healing Sanctuary. We have limited space available and the class fills up fast, so if you are interested, please sign up promptly!! Follow the link below to the Eagala website to learn more about this model of therapy and for details on how to sign up! www.eagala.org

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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.