The Vital Horse Podcast
with host Dr Lily Wilson
Episode 06 - Trauma-informed horse-human partnerships with Sarah Schlote
In this episode I am joined by Sarah Schlote of Equusoma, psychotherapist, counsellor, and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner with extensive training and experience in a number of trauma treatment approaches. We talk about attunement in relationship, and trauma as applied to veterinary and husbandry procedures in horses, and what we can do to both help minimise this and recover from it.
About the host:
Dr Lily Wilson is a veterinary surgeon practicing in the UK. She runs a veterinary rehabilitation facility on a track system in West Sussex and has particular interest and expertise in species-appropriate lifestyles, postural improvement, and ethical behaviour modification. She also does home visits for whole horse evaluations and dentistry, and runs online courses, consultations, and coaching calls.
Lily’s passion is helping people and animals to live their best life together by nurturing their all-round wellbeing and unique partnership. She is fascinated by all aspects of wellbeing from how the body functions in health and disease to how we all learn, think and feel, and how all of this is intertwined. She wants to help people on their journeys of discovering how to keep horses’ bodies and minds healthy, comfortable, active and engaged and to explore the integral role of both the horse’s and our emotions in all of this.
About the guest:
Sarah Schlote MA, RP, CCC, SEP is a bilingual Registered Psychotherapist, Canadian Certified Counsellor, and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner with extensive training and experience in a number of trauma treatment approaches. She is the founder of EQUUSOMA® Horse-Human Trauma Recovery, looking at the intersections of trauma in equines, trauma in humans, equestrian trauma, and how to move from re-enactments to renegotiation and healing for all, regardless of species. EQUUSOMA® is offered with the licensing permission of Somatic Experiencing® International, and features the application of the work of Dr. Peter Levine to other species and to human-equine relationships, along with other relevant frameworks, principles, and concepts. Her focus goes beyond behaviourism and is informed by ethology, somatics, attachment theory, equitation science, interspecies social justice, and relational rupture and repair, among other areas of study. To learn more visit: https://sarahschlote.com and https://equusoma.com
Relevant links:
The Activation Cycle diagram we talk about in this episode can be found at: https://equusoma.com/shop/ under Educational Materials
Attuned Assessment Online Workshop
lily@nurturingnatureequine.co.uk
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