First of all, there are some things we do have to look at. If a person has addiction issues, we wouldn't want to be doing this type of work with a person who's intoxicated. That would have to be put in place at the beginning: that if they have addictions issues, they would not use while doing therapy like this. Also, if there are any medications, we'd want to talk to their physician to see if there are any physical reasons why they wouldn't be able to do this type of therapy.
Anybody who wants to learn anger management, stress management, learn about themselves.... I have in my handout a list of therapeutic goals—I think it's on the third page—that you can achieve by doing this type of work. It's usually very effective. I find that after six to eight sessions we are getting somewhere, compared to office therapy, and people get to take home the learning they are doing in the ring with the horse. They can bring it home. I even give homework to do between sessions.