Equine Stress Control Therapy
Developed by Barbara Wright, Equine Stress Control Therapy
(ESCT) offers you a way to help your fearful, anxious, traumatized horse to heal
and gain confidence. You can learn how to help your horse build trust in your relationship
as you calm him/her. For a brief description of the process of
ESCT.
To understand more about how ESCT
works.
Peggy Martin is a certified ESCT therapist who can teach you how to help your horse.
Does your horse have problems with:
- Head shyness
- Saddling or bridling
- Noises
- Trailer loading or unloading
- General tension or anxiety
- Clippers
- Spookiness
Using techniques developed
for treating anxiety and trauma in humans, ESCT
heals from the inside out.
Individual sessions or small
group workshops:
- Relieve and resolve your horse's fear response
- Learn how to use ESCT skills to calm your horse
- Enjoy helping your horse be all that s/he can be
Peggy will work with you to create your own personal program considering you
and your horse's needs.
Some comments by folks who have helped their horses with ESCT:
Cisco was almost left
behind in the Cedar Fire as it was coming to
Oakzanita Ranch. Despite many different
efforts, he refused to enter the trailer. He
had been injured 3 weeks prior in an effort
to load him in the trailer; he had a
confirmed trailer loading problem long
before he came to be part of our family.
For sure, he was NOT going in. He was
finally loaded (gently, by the way). I
was interested to try ESCT when Barbara
Wright came to Oakzanita Ranch for a clinic.
4 weeks
after the ESCT clinic...
I enjoyed the ESCT
clinic and found real value in taking
it.
I have done follow up work with Cisco with
his trailering issue and am very pleased
with the results. The last time I asked him
to get in the trailer he hesitated for only
a moment and then stepped in. We spent
several minutes in the trailer and then when
I asked him to back out it was slow and
smooth, without any of the stress he used to
experience.
over a year
later...
We have now
taken Cisco on two horse camping trips with
no trailering issues. In fact we had what
could have been a disastrous accident on our
first trip when Cisco or Mickey managed to
lift our trailer's stall divider off
its hinges while we were in route
to the camp site. While neither horse
panicked, I nearly did when we
discovered what had happened. I got both
horses out of the trailer (both horses
exited calmly) to inspect them for injuries
and by some miracle Mickey didn't have a
scratch and Cisco only had a slight scrape
on one leg. Julie's first comment after
inspecting the horses and seeing that they
were OK was "you'll never get Cisco back
in the trailer". Well, I am happy to report
for once she was wrong. After we
reinstalled the divider and fixed it so it
couldn't come off again I asked Cisco to get
back in the trailer and he did NOT
hesitate at all. I spent a few moments with
him, then loaded up Mickey and off we went.
We have not
had any trailering issues since we
discovered ESCT.
Kind
regards,
Ron
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