Frequently Asked Questions

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The Bridges Program does not accept insurance. You are responsible for paying at the time of your session (start of session) unless prior arrangements have been made. Payment may be made by check, written to The Bridges Program, or cash. To control rising costs, we do not accept credit cards/debit cards. TBP does NOT accept insurance and we are NOT affiliated with any insurance providers. As a client you can submit a super bill to your insurance company for reimbursement. Please note that they may not reimburse all the fees per your coverage agreements and not all insurance companies reimburse for out-of-network providers so make sure you check with your insurance company in advance of beginning treatment. 

All work is done on the ground so no riding is involved. If you are only interested in riding lessons, please check out our sister company, Gentle Hooves Riding Academy. 

The standard fee for family, individual or a couple session is $150.00. Group rates will be quoted on an individual group basis. 

 If you need to cancel or reschedule a session, we ask that you provide us with 24 hours’ notice. If you miss a session without cancelling, or cancel with less than 24-hour notice, our policy is to collect 50% of the session fee. 

Appointments will ordinarily be 45-50 minutes in duration, once per week at a time we agree on, although some sessions may be more or less frequent as needed. 

There are several reasons we choose to use horses in this work, but primarily it is due to their nature as a social and prey animal. As a result of this nature, they have an extraordinary ability to read our nonverbal communication—picking up on messages we are sending which we are not always conscious we are doing. With this, they start responding to us in familiar ways reminding us of other people and things in our life. It is through this that metaphors (symbols) emerge providing us the opportunity to work on ourselves in relation to those aspects of our lives.