Leigh Shambo's practice grew out of her personal experience with horse – assisted therapy.
In 1988 after years of working as a professional horse trainer, Shambo struggled to physically and emotionally recover from a serious riding accident. That same year her mother committed suicide.
It wasn’t necessarily intentional, but Shambo turned to the only friends she felt could help: Her horses. "I noticed how incredibly attuned they were to my emotional makeup on any given day. I started to notice whatever I was like on the inside that day, the horses were responding to that." In 1996 to help ends meet, Shambo took a temporary “peer counseling” job to help Lewis County flood victims.
She had a knack for helping people feel better, even under the most unfortunate circumstances."All I was doing was putting into practice the things that I had learned from horses about relationships," Shambo said. "It just worked like magic with people." She decided to go back to school and begin a second career as a mental health therapist and eventually, she found a way to combine her two life passions: working with horses and helping people.
LEAP working with Leigh Shambo
Leigh Shambo Workshops at LEAP, Riverside Farm, Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire, GL14 1RE
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