LHEAP - Liberty Horsemanship For Equine Assisted Professionals

• You’re ready to create a sustainable, soul-aligned income doing work that truly matters, with horses as your partners in transformation.

• You want to be seen as a credible, competent professional in the equine-assisted industry, but aren’t sure how to position yourself or gain the right experience.

• You don’t yet have a clear program or business structure, and you’re craving a step-by-step system to help you launch, or refine, your equine-assisted practice with integrity and confidence.

• You’re ready to learn the true language of the horse, and how to bring liberty-based connection into your equine-assisted practice with confidence and clarity.

• You’ve experienced the emotional depth of horses and feel called to share that wisdom in a meaningful, healing way.

• You want to build honest, ethical relationships with horses and humans, grounded in communication—not control.

• You’re questioning pressure-based methods and seeking a gentler, non-coercive path to connection and healing.

• You crave experiences that invite true emotional safety, for both clients and horses.

• You want to integrate horses into your work but aren’t sure where to begin, or how to do it safely and effectively.

• You’re trained in an EAP modality but long for more hands-on liberty horsemanship skills.

• Or, maybe you have horsemanship experience, but it doesn’t quite align with the healing work you feel called to do.

If so, LHEAP offers a path that honors both the horse and the human, through relationship, not control.

Inside the LHEAP Program, you’ll not only learn Liberty Horsemanship through the Carolyn Resnick Method, you’ll discover how to facilitate powerful, emotionally safe sessions where horses have a voice and clients experience real transformation. But more than that, you’ll be helping to change the way equine assisted work is done, stepping into your role as a change-maker in a field that’s ready for evolution.

We’ve designed a clear, step-by-step system that guarantees your success as an Equine-Assisted Practitioner, whether you’re starting fresh or ready to take your practice to the next level. You’ll receive the training, tools, and mentorship you need to confidently build a business that reflects your values, backed by a credential that brings true credibility.

This full-package certification includes in-depth Liberty Horsemanship training, a proven business model to help you start or grow your practice, real-world practicum experiences, one-on-one coaching within a small, supportive group, and didactic supervision once your training is complete, ensuring you feel confident, competent, and ready to serve.

Whether you’re seeking to deepen your relationship with horses, guide others through meaningful transformation, or step into greater leadership, LHEAP prepares you to do it all, with the full support of a company that is as invested in your success as you are.

This is more than an educational program. It’s an investment in yourself, your future, and the future of this field.

🐎 Master Liberty Horsemanship

•  Build a true partnership with your horses using Carolyn Resnick’s Waterhole Rituals, a method rooted in trust, presence, and freedom from tack or force.

• Learn how to bond with, and train a horse at Liberty, where your horse has a voice and a choice, resulting in a confident, curious, and social partner. 

• Prepare your horse for client sessions by developing their emotional readiness and enthusiasm to engage -  a horse who genuinely wants to connect with you and your clients.

• Create safe, playful, and awe-inspiring experiences where your clients don’t just witness connection, they feel it.

🌿  Lead Clients Toward Authentic Connection and Self Realization

At the heart of the LHEAP model is the belief that the way we connect with horses has the power to transform how we relate to ourselves and others. As a facilitator, you won’t just be guiding clients to connect with horses, you’ll be leading them toward harmony in their relationships, greater emotional intelligence, and deeper self-trust.

By embodying the 5 Heartfelt Strings of Connection; Bond, Trust, Respect, Willingness, and Focus, you’ll learn to model and teach authentic relational skills that clients can carry into every area of their lives.

Through your work with the horse at Liberty, clients will begin to:

• Recognize and repair relational ruptures with compassion
• Explore their own boundaries, needs, and nervous system patterns
• Practice authentic, nonverbal communication
• Reclaim their sovereignty while honoring connection
• Awaken to their innate wholeness and inner truth

This is more than relational skill-building. It’s a path of self-realization through connection, with the horse as an unwavering, honest, and non-judgmental guide.

In this way, your sessions become not just healing, but initiatory.

🤲 Facilitate Ethical, Effective Healing

• Lead emotionally safe sessions without performance demands on the horse

• Read subtle equine body language to support client safety and session depth

• Design group workshops and private sessions that honor autonomy and co-regulation

📈 Grow Your Practice with Confidence

• Receive mentorship in real-time facilitation and case-based learning

• Learn how to market and sell aligned equine workshops

• Create sustainable offerings rooted in your values and gifts

🎥  Live Support & Mentorship

• Weekly Live Zoom coaching calls 

• Case reviews and Q&A sessions with expert guidance

• Access to all call replays for ongoing learning

🐎 Hands-On Practice & In-Person Clinics

• 2 live, in-person clinics to apply and refine your horsemanship and facilitation

📚 Online Learning Portal

• On-demand liberty horsemanship training modules

• Equine-assisted facilitation frameworks

• Client session templates & workshop design guides

• Business-building and marketing resources

💬 Certification + Community

• 12-month access to mentorship and coursework

• Private peer community for ongoing support and collaboration

• Certified LHEAP Facilitator digital badge for your website and marketing

You can begin offering paid services as soon as you’re ready, often within 6–9 months, with full support for integration during the final 3 months of the program and ongoing support in our community of professionals.

LHEAP is rooted in the belief that horses are equal partners in healing, not tools, not mirrors. Grounded in the Waterhole Rituals™ by Carolyn Resnick, our model honors the horse’s voice, autonomy, and wisdom at every step.

No tack. No pressure. No hierarchy.

Horses aren’t being used for healing, they’re being empowered to lead it.
Here, healing becomes mutual, not mechanical.

Too often in traditional equine-assisted methods, horses are asked to support deep human healing without ever receiving support themselves. 

At LHEAP, we believe in a different way—one that begins by supporting the horse first. When the horse is emotionally regulated, joyfully engaged, and genuinely connected, they become the most powerful co-facilitator you could ever ask for.

Horses Are Sentient Partners

They have thoughts, emotions, and boundaries,  not tools or props.

Healing Empowers Both Horse & Human
True transformation happens when both are supported and respected.

Partnership Is Built on Trust, Not Performance
Mutual respect and willingness are the foundation, never force or coercion.

Horses Need Preparation for Emotional Work
Just like human equine practitioners and therapists, horses require training and care to hold space safely.

🐴 “Just as we would never send an untrained person into a therapeutic role, we must not expect our horses to carry emotional weight without preparation. They deserve the same care, support, and education we give ourselves.”

—Nancy Zintsmaster

• Horses are asked to carry emotional weight in healing sessions.
• Without support, this can cause stress and harm to the horse.
• Ethical practice means honoring the horse’s well-being first.
• A connected, emotionally regulated horse is a powerful healing co-facilitator. 

• Equine therapists, coaches, and facilitators who want a more intuitive, respectful approach to partnering with horses

• Mental health professionals ready to integrate horses into their practice in a way that’s ethical, effective, and trauma-informed

• Horse lovers and holistic healers seeking a like-hearted community that values connection over control

• Aspiring equine-assisted professionals who are craving structure, mentorship, and a clear, compassionate path to begin their journey

The Horse’s Role

• Show up emotionally present and supported

• Model trust and authentic communication

• Invite clients into grounded, genuine connection

The Human’s Role

• Create safe space for horse and client alike

• Respect and respond to the horse’s feedback

• Build connection between the horse and the human using the 5 Heartfelt Strings:
   🧡 Bond · 💛 Trust · 💚 Respect · 💙 Willingness · 💜 Focus

You feel the depth of what’s possible when horses are honored as sentient, sovereign beings, and humans are invited into connection, not control. You’ve seen the beauty of what horses offer, and you’re ready to turn that into something real: a practice that heals, a career that sustains you, and a life that reflects your deepest values.

LHEAP isn’t just another certification.
It’s a full pathway to becoming a confident, competent, and ethical equine-assisted professional—guided by liberty, built on trust, and supported every step of the way.

If you’re ready to step into your role as a practitioner, leader, and changemaker in this field, we’d love to walk that path with you.

Let’s talk. Let’s dream. Let’s build it—together.