Testimonials

“When Miranda invited me to take part in a workshop, I was struck by her sense of timing. At that point I had been feeling that I had been living on a razor sharp edge. I had returned to Bristol after 13 years to live, and was confronted moment by moment by the reality of my past. Every corner and every street held a memory of the horror of my life back then, a time when I had submerged into the world of heroin and prostitution.

“I have spent most of my life feeling like someone without skin, totally open and susceptible to the energies coming my way. I have learned to drown my fear, to deny it. My fear was always followed by a sense of worthlessness. But the peaceful and loving presence of a horse named Freddy allowed it to be without judgement.

“Step by step I moved closer and closer to Freddy. In all this time Freddy was holding my gaze. At that poin,t I became aware of my femaleness and his maleness. We had moved into another dimension which went beyond our physical entities. He was no longer a horse and I was no longer a human. We were making contact.

“I took my final step towards him. It was at this point when I felt a strong need to invite him to let him know I was trusting him. I was awestruck by his intuition. He immediately began to walk towards me. There was also something about the way he was moving towards me really slowly and really gently that was making me feel safe.

“Freddy has helped me honour my fears. I am realizing that my fears are necessary as they are guarding the gateway to a place where love freedom and the wild live.

“I don’t have enough words to thank Miranda for her incredible timing for clasping my hand once again when I felt I was falling.”

"I have had many years’ experience of psychotherapy now, both as a client and as a practitioner. Working with the horses has been one of the most life-changing things I have chosen to do, and the reason for this, I think, is because I have been able to work with the same herd over a period of time, so learning gets reinforced each time and the changes are able to take root and become lasting.

“In working with the horses over time, they have reached me in ways that have not been possible through conventional psychotherapy. I have spent a lot of my life not really living in my body. For a lot of reasons it has not felt safe to be so. I think horses are particularly gifted at working with people who have been abused or traumatized in some way. If there has been sexual abuse for example, I believe that healing needs to come through the body, through physical experience since the original damage was done to and through the body.

“Horses are very much able to live in and through their bodies. I have been licked and chewed and sniffed by horses taking an interest in me, getting to know me. I have been pushed around and affectionately nibbled - as if I were one of the herd.

“It's hard to find the right words to describe the impact of these simple interactions. It has brought me to a greater awareness of what an embodied life actually feels like. I am kinder to my body, more attentive to what it needs. For example I am finding a more balanced attitude towards eating which has been a longstanding difficulty."

“I am a fifty-three year old teacher. Eleven years ago I had to take early retirement because my mental health problems were disabling me. As an adult survivor of childhood abuse I have worked with psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts in an effort to recover from the trauma of physical, emotional, sexual and ritual abuse. My journey towards healing and wholeness is ongoing.
“EFP is the most powerful, exciting form of therapy I have experienced since I first sought professional help 19 years ago. It is the most delightful 'treatment' I have ever received and it's working wonders!

“I have experienced a level of emotional release which has been impossible for me to achieve within the four walls of a conventional therapeutic setting.”

"After an exhausting year of emotional strain and heart pain, I found Miranda and decided that healing in other circumstances and away from home could be helpful. I went for a three-day individual session.

“I got lessons from the mare Maud about intimacy, love and hypersensitivity and from the gelding Fred about keeping boundaries. A remarkable synchronicity was there between their relationship and mine with my partner. A parallel world was shown to me. Miranda was there for me with an extreme attention and concentration and a bright intuition.

In a very natural and smooth way I was taken to the points that mattered, on every level: mental, emotional and spiritual. I felt very safe and the cooperation between both of us and the horses was like a beautiful woven tapestry."