Equine Assisted Therapy
3375 North Arlington Heights Road/Suite F
Arlington Heights, Illinois   60004
To schedule an appointment call our office at (847) 577- 4530
847- 577- 4530
The Arlington Center
A Group Private Practice of Counseling & Psychological Services
For many years, handicapped children and adults have
benefited from the warm companionship and supple
movement of the horse.  Now, sessions with an experienced
psychotherapist and a horse as co-therapist have become
recognized as opportunities for resounding insights and
profound movement that sometimes has not occurred for
clients in more traditional forms of talk therapy.

Horses seem to help us come to the core of mental health work:  the awareness and safe expression of emotions.  For most of us, feelings come up in the presence of horses, whether we’ve had connection with horses or not, whether those experiences have been satisfying or frustrating, whether the feelings are of fear or comfort.  With the horse as a mirror and the human therapist as a guide, clients are
often able to release emotions that have become a maze of depression, anxiety addictions, or messy relationships.  At the same time the horse offers an honest, visible relationship.  If a horse if bored, it will walk away; if he’s afraid, he’ll tremble, if she’s intrigued, she’ll come closer.  He or she responds to human emotion with acute sensitivity and acts in accordance: a feedback monitor with unerring
accuracy and a heart of gold.

Success in this therapeutic process is not dependent on a person’s experience with horses.  Instead, change occurs as a result of the client’s ability to be open and willing.
Steven Hines, L.C.S.W.
Steven is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Steven has been at the Arlington Center for over 18 years and before that was the director of the college counseling center at Trinity University in Deerfield, IL.  He has over 25 years of experience doing therapy with adults, couples, adolescents, and groups.  In addition, he has over 35 years of experience working and learning with horses.  For the past 10 years he has been able to combine these passions in doing equine assisted therapy for individuals, families, couples, and groups.

Therapeutic services offered:
  • Individuals, couples and families & Groups
  • Team and Community building
  • Wilderness experiences

For more information contact:
Steven Hines 847-577-4530 -ext.16