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Equine-facilitated body and emotion-oriented psychotherapy (EBEP) is a new manual-based treatment for patients with mental disorders who have participated in conventional psychotherapy in the past without a positive treatment outcome. The horse’s high sensitivity and responsiveness to human body language is used as an aid for the patient to improve awareness of his or her emotions, bodily responses, and communication. During the program, the therapist helps the patient not only to be more aware of emotions, cognitions, bodily sensations, and behavior when interacting with the horse, but also to verbalize his or her experiences. Gradually, the patient demonstrates more consistent behavior; improves nonverbal and verbal communication skills, becomes more self-confident and assertive with increased problem-solving skills, and functions better with fewer mentally distressing symptoms. In this paper, we …