Research background
'Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) is rooted in therapeutic practice and self-help and natural horsemanship literature. It investigates how including an equine enhances the conventional therapy of sufferers with social and psychological disorders. An emergent field relying on anecdotal reports, few case studies and small sample size, it needs rigorous research design to answer questions about why and how the horsehuman dynamic works (Fry 2013), in particular for women recovering from sexual abuse (Meinersmann et al. 2008). '