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SOCS® Equine & Animal Assisted Therapy

SOCS® Equine & Animal Assisted Therapy with Dr. Greg & Karin Yapalater

Whispering & Wellness Discovery & Recovery

Teaching & Healing The Whole Family
Children | Adults | Families​

“Working with Karin and the horses will turn your life around. This work goes beyond words, and is different than traditional talk therapy. A deep, meaningful, long lasting healing that moves you onto a better future. Develops skills to create a deeper sense of connection.”

Where other wellness and healing treatments leave off or fail, SOCS® Equine and Animal Assisted Therapy succeeds.

We help children and adults become self aware, while developing the life and problem solving skills needed to live a balanced life. Working alongside horses, we help big and little humans to understand feelings and behavior. We offer unique nature based sessions and programs on beautiful farms on the East End of Long Island, and one of kind in home sessions. We also travel to other locations to work privately with individuals and families, and hold workshops and retreats all over the world.

The horses, and other farm animals we work with are carefully screened and selected for their ability to reflect, respond and awaken an individual’s understanding of who they truly are.

Participants have the opportunity to observe, interact, learn, and take responsibility for the care of a horse which can create significant personal growth, connection and confidence. Natural horsemanship and horse whispering instruction is also available.

Stressed, Anxious, Angry, Stuck?

Children and adults who are struggling with anxiety, stress, sensory concerns, and addiction benefit on a profound level. Participants note increased “self discovery, patience, self-esteem and confidence”.

​“Simply nothing like the extraordinary educational, life changing work Karin and Dr. Greg Yapalater are doing with horses & families out there. Our family has benefited on so many levels — and our children’s behavior has been transformed for the better. Truly remarkable!”

If home, work or school feel more like a battlefield than a safe haven contact us today.

HOW CAN WE HELP?

  • Life transitions
  • Divorce
  • Anxiety & Stress Management
  • Addiction Recovery
  • Family Crisis Intervention
  • Parenting Concerns
  • Improve Family Connection and Conscious Communication
  • Challenges with horse & rider relationships

“Awareness of purpose is love in motion.”

Every member of the family will benefit! NO RIDING EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. In fact, those who feel apprehensive about horses or other animals are among those who can most benefit as a way of overcoming obstacles and fears!

WHO WE ARE

Karin Yapalater, CHC, AADP is a Board Certified Integrative Family Health Counselor and expert in the field of Equine & Animal Assisted Learning & Individual and Family Conscious Coaching. She is the Co-Founder of the School of Contemplative Studies (SOCS™) “the school that travels within”, an educational organization that brings conscious-based health and wellness programs to schools, businesses and families right in the comfort of their own schools, workplaces and homes.


Dr. Greg Yapalater —or “Dr. Greg” as his patients fondly call him— is a renowned Pediatrician with over 30 years of experience providing the highest quality medical and healthcare to children and families all over the world. He is the Founder of Park Avenue Medical Specialists in New York, co-founder of SOCS™, and co-author with Karin of the highly acclaimed Present Tense Awareness PTA© Curriculum.


“Dr. Greg & Karin Yapalater are expert child & horse whisperers who quickly identify the most strategic solution to child, adult, family – as well as horse – problems! Remarkable!“ —The Simmons Family

SOME OF OUR 4–LEGGED TEACHERS

Socrates aka SOCS/SOCZ (pronounced socks) is a Roan Quarter Horse trained in Natural Horsemanship by The Yapalaters. SOCS aka SOCZ is also the beloved namesake of The Yapalater’s traveling School of Contemplative Studies (SOCS™). SOCZ is a SOCS™/PTA© trained Equine Coach living and working at the Green School.


Sherlock is a bay quarter horse with the rough and tumble looks of a wild mustang and a heart of gold. Sherlock is aSOCS™/PTA© trained Master Level Equine Coach living and working @ The Big Sky Ranch. Palio is an award winning quarter mile chestnut paint quarter horse and SOCS™/PTA©trained Master Level Equine Coach living and working at The Big Sky Ranch.


Lola is a 2–year–old Staffordshire terrier lab rescued by The Yapalaters. Lola is currently in training as a SOCS™/PTA©Canine Coach.


Testimonials:

“Karin’s equine clinics are an incredible way for couples, families and friends to spend quality time together while learning about and connecting authentically to themselves and one another.” 

—Markus

“Working with Karin and the horses, I learned more in 1 hour about myself and what was keeping me stuck in my life and in my relationships than I have learned in years of talk therapy!”

—Stacey​

“After college I felt lost…and Karin and the horses managed, in one quick session, to highlight some very deep issues I hadn’t even realized I had buried. It was a magical a-ha moment that immediately helped me in my life in a very positive way.” 

—Isabelle​

Each individual or group session is based upon the PTA© curriculum, developed over the past 25 years by Board Certified Integrative Health Counselor Karin Yapalater and Dr. Greg Yapalater – highly skilled family health practitioners and renowned human and horse whisperers.

Present Tense Awareness© (PTA) is an acclaimed contemplative holistic counseling method developed by pediatrician Dr. Greg Yapalater and Karin Yapalater. The SOCS™PTA© Equine Therapy & Life Coaching Program provide children and adults of all ages and backgrounds with a safe, non-judgmental space for self-discovery and recovery through kinship and respect for all living things.


What to expect in a SOCS™–PTA© EQUINE HEALING & LEARNING SESSION:

Individuals work closely with Dr. Greg and/or Karin Yapalater to uncover the cause of emotional, physical and spiritual imbalances and provide immediate tools and strategies that get each and every member of the family feeling balanced and at their best.

Specially designed non riding activities allow participants to deepen awareness of personal issues, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit their ability to reach their true potential. The Yapalaters along with carefully selected horses and farm animals teach participants how to make powerful choices based on awareness instead of harmful or habitual patterns.

Your journey:

Dr. Greg & Karin Yapalater work with you to create emotional, physical and spiritual healing. The farms and schools where The Yapalaters run their equine and animal programs are a kind of a sanctuary with beautiful surroundings that contribute deeply to the experience.

Individual, group sessions and clinics are available.


Families and Adults:

  • Family relationship dynamics: end power struggles!
  • Life & Problem solving skills
  • Self-understanding & Emotional/self regulation
  • Self esteem & self confidence
  • Stress management
  • Effective communication: verbal and non-verbal
  • Mindfulness: how to identify & express feelings & needs
  • Kinship with all life: lessons in the nature of horses & farm animalsthat can be related to their own lives
  • How to improve relationships at home and work
  • Nutrition, self-care & self-responsibility​​

Children:

  • ​Sensory, emotional, social and cognitive challenges
  • Family relationship dynamics: end power struggles!
  • Life & Problem solving skills
  • Self-understanding & Emotional/self regulation
  • Self esteem & self confidence
  • Effective communication: verbal and non-verbal

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Stressed? Anxious? Stuck?

​Attend a SOCS/PTA™ Equine Therapy Session with The Yapalaters on the farm:

  • Overcome fears and limiting beliefs
  • Quickly solve real life problems
  • Become confident and secure
  • Awaken your truest self


Karin Yapalater MFA, CHHC, AADP
Board Certified Individual & Family Health & Nutrition Counselor
Park Avenue Family Wellness • Hamptons Family Wellness
715 Park Avenue • New York, NY 10021
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