The Calm Clydesdale Therapeutic Centre

About

The young people and families who attend are predominately neurodivergent and struggling in mainstream school or in society in general. They find it difficult to integrate and uncomfortable with people. The horses provide a safe way to learn, calm, socialize and build family dynamics. The referrals are related to PTSD, anxiety, social isolation, school refusal and neurodivergence. We have a similar target group accessing the service and that is one where young people and children are struggling with their mental health and wellbeing to the extent it is impacting their lives and their ability to thrive. We address lots of low self-confidence and poor self-esteem. Children are often struggling at school and are not able to sustain this on a full-time basis. We use the horses to help them to connect to something and then we begin to use the horses to help them understand thoughts, feelings, impact of emotions and behaviour

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