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Counseling Services
Rocky Top Therapy Center offers Masters level counseling for children, adults, couples and families. Counseling is on a fee for service basis and scholarships are available for those that qualify. We also offer play therapy for children ages 3-9.
Rocky Top Therapy Center offers Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP), an emerging therapeutic intervention used in a variety of mental health settings, particularly in the treatment of children, adolescents and veterans. It is a type of recreational and adventure-based therapy loosely related to animal-assisted therapy. It combines traditional therapeutic interventions with a more innovative component involving relationships and activities with horses.
Through EAP individuals can address and alter maladaptive coping strategies and behaviors in a new and challenging environment, which positively affects their psychosocial functioning outside of the therapeutic setting. EAP is guided by treatment plans and diagnoses, and is facilitated by a licensed mental health professional and a qualified equine professional. The horse professional is primarily responsible for safety and for observing the behavior of the horse, because the horse’s reaction to the client is as powerful as the client’s response to the horse. The mental health professional is primarily responsible for the therapeutic aspects of the session.