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Willow Ranch promotes hope, healing and wellness using equine assisted counseling for children and adults.

Your path to progress starts now.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord, not for men. (Colossians 3:23)

  • Physical, social, emotional

  • Increase desire to connect

  • Increase oxytocin levels in the brain

  • Increase positive ways to cope

  • Improved cognitive thinking

Benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy

  • Reduce stress in crisis

  • Social bonding

  • Improved relaxation

  • Increase trust

  • Assess and assert boundaries

  • Decrease anxiety, stress and sadness

  • Boosted immunity

  • Lower blood pressure

  • Improve social lives

Meet Our Horses

Mini horse next to a tree

Lady Hawk

Mini horse standing in hay

Butter Bean Sprout

Mini horse standing in dirt

Two-Spot

Large brown horse in a field standing behind a fence

Tater

Large brown horse standing in the dirt in front of a fence

Sophie

Large brown horse standing in the dirt in front of a fence

Phoenix (3F)

Large brown horse standing in the dirt in front of a fence

Loretta (3F)

Brown horse standing in front of a fence in the grass

Rudy

Brown horse with blonde hair standing in the grass in front of a tree

R0wdy

Welcome to Willow Ranch! I am a certified eagala practitioner. For over twenty-five years I have worked with children, adolescents, and families to facilitate educational and therapeutic change to increase resiliency and provide an opportunity for a more hopeful future through the use of a client centered trusting relationship and evidence-based therapies and practices. My philosophy of care is based on a desire to seek to understand each person seeking help. I practice from an experiential and cognitive-behavioral framework, based in theology and psychology. 

Together we will explore one's spiritual, relational, physical and emotional wellbeing. Through a therapeutic relationship you will identify beliefs, develop goals, and work toward positive change.

—Christa Malcolm, Owner