Sue McIntosh, MA, CCCHealing Hooves Equine Facilitated Wellness
Cremona, Alberta
Course Facilitator
Parent Consultant

Sue McIntosh is a Certified Canadian Counsellor with a Masters Degree in Counselling and additional training in both equine and animal assisted therapy and trauma therapy. Based near Calgary, Sue has been offering Neufeld informed services and resources over the past fifteen years through her private counselling and professional training program, Healing Hooves. More info at www.healinghooves.ca and https://www.facebook.com/healinghoovescanada/

Sue provides Counselling, Personal Growth, Parent consulting and Attachment Resources to individuals, parents, children and adolescents including doing trauma work. Her counselling programs and services can often be funded and/ or costs reimbursed through FSCD (Family Support for Children with Disabilities), and private insurance companies.

Sue offers nationally recognised and certified professional training and personal growth workshops in Equine and Animal Assisted Therapy following an approach grounded in the Neufeld paradigm.

Sue has published a series of therapeutic stories for children - a great resource for reaching and helping any child, without triggering defenses. Stories explore topics including grief and loss, frustration, alarm, grace, holding on and the unconditional nature of love. The stories all star the ponies, dogs and cats Sue works with at Healing Hooves and 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these books go to fund counselling sessions with low income families.

Details of these books and other resources are available on the Healing Hooves website www.healinghooves.ca and facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/healinghoovescanada/ by contacting Sue at sue@healinghooves.ca and at some Neufeld conferences.

Most importantly, as a mother who also homeschools two daughters, Sue strives to follow Dr. Neufeld’s paradigm at home as well as at work.

Sue offers the series, Power to Parent I: The Vital Connection; Power to Parent II: Helping Children Grow Up; Power to Parent III: Common Challenges to parents individually within her counselling and professional training program, "Healing Hooves", and works with children and parents individually from this paradigm.

Sue works with individuals, parents, children and adolescents including doing trauma counselling - all informed by the Neufeld paradigm. She also offers nationally recognised and certified professional training in Equine and Animal Assisted Therapy and personal growth workshops, grounded in the Neufeld paradigm.

Sue has published a series of therapeutic stories for children - a great resource for reaching and helping any child, without triggering defenses. Stories explore topics including grief and loss, frustration, alarm, grace, holding on and the unconditional nature of love. The stories all star the ponies, dogs and cats Sue works with at Healing Hooves.

More info at: www.healinghooves.ca and https://www.facebook.com/healinghoovescanada/