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ABOUT US
Hope In Her Eyes is a nonprofit organization with new solutions in the treatment process of mental illnesses, neurodevelopmental disorders and brain injury.
After many years in the financial industry, Amy Lipput made the decision to follow her life’s mission of healing the noise in our heads that distorts our reality.
Amy is a licensed Draper Therapy practitioner, EAGALA Certified Equine Specialist, Trauma Informed Certified, as well as a member of the New Jersey Trauma Loss Coalition and Disaster Relief Crisis Counselor. Amy works directly with the New Jersey State Disabled American Veterans Suicide Committee developing Operation TRIBE designed to combat Veteran suicide.
Hope In Her Eyes Equine Facilitated Wellness’s mission is to support you as you heal past traumas or disabilities that are preventing you from living your best life.
A Two-Way Healing for Animals and Humans
Horses are known for their sensitivity and intuition, can sense human emotions and respond with a calming presence that help reduce stress and anxiety. On the other hand caring for and working with our rescue horses provides humans with a sense of purpose, mindfulness and physical activity, which can aid in their own healing process. This mutual bond fosters trust, understanding, creating a unique therapeutic environment where both horses and humans benefit from each other’s strengths and connection.
Let us help you heal.
Services
Equine therapy benefits mental health by fostering increased self-esteem, improved focus and better judgement to routines. It also reduces aggression and offers a less stressful environment for building new friendships and trust. The opportunity to interact with horses provides a safe, non-judgmental space for practicing vulnerability and processing experiences, positive growth and mindfulness.
Wellness
Mindfulness sessions are performed on the ground connecting with horses and nature learning to be present. Horses help us get back into our body and release oxytocin while performing grooming, leading, relationship building skills activating your five main senses.
Draper Sensory Therapy
Draper Sensory Therapy sessions are conducted on horseback to neutralize the stress in the brain, repair the damage (focus, reason and remember), change belief system. For the most effective healing several sessions are necessary.
ABOUT DRAPER SENSORY THERAPY
Hope In Her Eyes, has also partnered with Terry Draper of Horseback Miracles, to offer Draper Sensory Therapy (DST). DST is a paradigm shift in the treatment of mental illness and neurological disorders. We are excited to be the only treatment facility on the East Coast that offers DST. It’s a scientifically backed approach leveraging the knowledge of kinesiology, neurophysiology and sensory integration. Horses are specifically selected and trained to perform a specific cadence, allowing these scientific principles to combine and provide a catalyst that alters a client’s brainwave frequency.
DST has become the cornerstone of understanding the body brain connection related to cognitive impairments involving perception, reasoning, judgement, and memory. DST revolves around scientific principles of kinesiology, neurophysiology and sensory integration. The first portion of this method addresses three regions of the brain: the Amygdala, the Pre-Frontal Cortex, and the Hippocampus that have either been over-stimulated or “taken off-line” due to chronic stress’s associated with trauma. By implementing DST, these regions are being reconnected and becoming a normal operation progression that will ultimately create rational thought processes for participants to use in making life choices and decisions. DST is designed as a multi-dimensional therapeutic model based on scientific principles that develop the participants’ innate ability to focus, reason and remember. As a result of this therapeutic model, the participants area again accessing the frontal lobe region of the brain, allowing the avenue for rational thinking and better processing of traumatic memories that will begin to support and enhance their quality of life going forward.
Core Treatment Issues: Whether it’s a child who experienced abuse or trauma, a military veteran, first responder, learning disabled, neurologically impaired, autistic and more… all struggle with:
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Chronic stress
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Chemical imbalance
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Faulty vestibular system
No horseback riding experience is needed for this safe, non-verbal nature based approach that treats:
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Post-traumatic stress
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Depression, fear and anxiety
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Inability to focus, follow directions, attend to tasks
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Lack of hope, motivation, bonding and impulse control
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Low frustration tolerance
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Low self-esteem
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Body image issues, socially appropriate boundary awareness and trust issues
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Autism, Down Syndrome, ADD, ADHD, and more…