FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

No. We do not currently provide psychotherapy or mental health treatment through Harriet’s Wildseed.

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Harriet’s Wildseed is a somatic and ancestral healing sanctuary offering spiritual, energetic, and land-based healing practices. These sessions are not therapy, are not a substitute for therapy, and do not involve clinical assessment, diagnosis, or treatment.

Psychotherapy focuses on clinical treatment, mental-health goals, and the use of approaches regulated within Western psychology.

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Harriet’s Wildseed healing services draw from Afro-Indigenous traditions and somatic, energetic, and land-based practices that have supported communities for generations. These offerings weave together:

• Breathwork and energy balancing practices (including Reiki)

• Somatic and sensory-based approaches

• Plant medicine and earth-based support

• Ceremonial and land-based rituals

• Equine-assisted relational work

• Nervous system support in a non-clinical setting

​These practices nurture the mind, body, spirit, and ancestral memory/ reconnection.
They complement therapy, but they are not psychotherapy and do not replace clinical treatment.

Horse–Human Trauma Recovery is a trauma-informed, relationship-centered approach that supports healing possibilities for both humans and horses through attuned, consensual, and choice-based interaction. Held within EQUUSOMA® principals, this work recognizes that both species bring their own histories, nervous systems, boundaries, and responses into the encounter. Instead of viewing the horse as a healer “for” the human, the process honors the horse as a sentient participant whose agency and wellbeing help shape the direction of the experience. Because both human and horse can influence one another’s activation, regulation, or curiosity, sessions emphasize mutual awareness, co-regulation, and moment-to-moment attunement, allowing whatever arises in the relationship to guide the work.

Source:
Adapted from EQUUSOMA® teachings and Schlote, S. (2023). Trauma-Informed Interspecies Social Justice in AAI. In Human–Animal Interactions in Social Work: A Comprehensive Guide to Animal-Assisted Interventions (Eds. L. Kogan & others).
EQUUSOMA® Horse–Human Trauma Recovery, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

No. All equine-supported healing at Harriet’s Wildseed takes place on the ground, where you and the horse can meet one another in a gentle, attuned, and relational way. These sessions honor the horse as a sentient partner and relative, engaging with you through relationship rather than performance or expectation. The focus is on shared communication, mutual presence, and co-regulation that unfolds at both your pace and the horse’s pace, within the boundaries each of you brings into the space. 

Every person, nervous system, and session unfolds differently. Some people feel subtle shifts—such as more breath, grounding, or emotional clarity—after one session. Others notice changes gradually as their body, spirit, and ancestral or nervous system patterns begin to soften over time.

Because this work honors pacing, consent, and moment-to-moment attunement (with or without horses), there is no set timeline for transformation. Instead of focusing on “how many sessions,” we focus on creating conditions where genuine change can emerge in its own timing.

Absolutely. Harriett’s Wildseed centers Black and Indigenous ways of knowing, but all identities who seek ancestral reconnection, spiritual healing, and somatic restoration are welcome.