Chicago, IL
The horses at Gateway HorseWorks are helping people heal from trauma
She heard of an rising remedy known as “equine assisted psychotherapy” which pairs an equine specialist with a licensed psychological well being practitioner to assist sufferers.
So DeMarco opened “Gateway HorseWorks” in 2015.
She makes use of her horse herd on her Malvern farm to help within the remedy, the place the horses change into metaphors for the sufferers and assist them of their therapeutic course of.
She’s helped everybody from crime victims, to human trafficking survivors, to school-aged children heal from trauma.
She says because the world learns extra about psychological well being, it is essential to have a plethora of various remedy choices for sufferers to help them of their well-being.
It is also a dream come true for her to each work with horses and assist her group.