Emma Ferguson, Founder, Facilitator and Trauma Informed Therapist
BA (Hons) Drama, PGCE, MEd Psychology, MBACP, MBPsS, Cert. Counselling Supervision.
Energy Medicine Practitioner, Grief Educator, Equine Therapist
Humanist Celebrant
“See the shine, not the shit” is how Emma Ferguson chooses to live her life today, but it hasn’t always been that way. Like us all, Em craved a joyful life yet always looked for it in the wrong places.
Mistaking drama and chaos for passion, she avoided truly connecting with the world. Although she was a mother to two young children and worked as a secondary teacher for several years, Em eventually found herself lost in a nightmare of addiction and spiritual bankruptcy.
As she began to seek recovery, Em finally started to find the sense of purpose and passion that she’d always craved and felt compelled to share that with others who were struggling.
After training to become a psychologist and therapist, she gained vast experience working with addicts and their families. Although this work was fulfilling, she knew that she needed more.
Creative expression and a connection with the outdoors and animals are key to Em’s development, and she gained new skills, training and working as a supervising facilitator the Hoffman Institute for 9 years until taking the leap to follow her own joy.
For years she was adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, yet today she lives a mainly joyful life. Through Joy Provision, Em is sharing her experiences, inspiring others to undergo similar amazing change and she would love to offer you the opportunity to do the same.
Shamanic Healing, Equine Therapy and Forest Bathing
Words can be limiting – sometimes we just cant find the right language to explain what is going on, we may struggle to be heard and have lost our voice through painful early childhood experiences.
Trauma is held in the body and there are often no words for it – it’s a sense, a feeling which talking therapy doesn’t always reach. Energy medicine healing and/or work with horses goes beyond the physical/the ‘known’ or learned language. ”
It was my own transformation during work with horses that led me down a road of body and trauma exploration. Besides my Psychology and therapy training I chose to use my drama therapy background and embrace shamanic energy work.
Bessel Van de Kolk and Gabor Mate both advocate the exploration of what is happening in the body and treatment using our internal family systems.
Energy medicine can reveal, unblock and heal and show us what lies below the conscious mind.
Neuroscience has shown us remarkable similarities between the limbic brain of horses and humans, which makes it possible for horses to serve as both our mirrors and our teachers in terms of understanding ourselves, our emotional life, and the way we relate to ourselves and those around us.
Horses help us to remember, to remember at a deep cellular level. They bring the unconscious to the conscious. It is our job as practitioners and healers to support clients on their healing journey.” – Em Ferguson, Joy Provision Founder.
Joy Provision will facilitate this using equine assisted therapy and shamanic energy work and nature immersion (forest bathing) holding a safe space for psycho -therapeutic processing.