How Gestalt and Horses Can Change Your Life
Horses don’t hold onto things the way we do. They are a walking expression of how finding resolution and completing unfinished business can bring you peace and allow you to move forward without reservation.
Horses bring us grounding — they encourage us to stay in the present moment. They always show up as their authentic selves.
Gestalt is an experiential form of deep healing. Horses add an enriching and empowering layer to your personal growth. Combining horses with gestalt, the process offers you the opportunity for both profound awareness and change.
About Kim
If you looked through the window of my childhood, you might see a picturesque farmette insouthern Wisconsin—animals, 4-H ribbons, a hardworking family. But from where I stood, theview was very different.
I grew up in a home filled with conflict, emotional neglect, and fear. My father, burdened by his own unresolved trauma, Wasn't equipped emotionally to meet the demands of parenting. My mother, isolated and overwhelmed, leaned on her children for emotional support. I carried an invisible weight—expectations I didn’t understand, fear of doing something wrong, the ache of never feeling good enough.
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At school and church, I was bullied and dismissed. At home, I was unprotected and unseen. Ideveloped eating disorders and later turned to alcohol, achievement, and control to cope.Spiritually, I felt disconnected—torn between what I knew in my heart and what religion told mewas “right.”
​Yet, I pressed on. I became a farrier and built a 20-year career specializing in the biomechanics of horses—often the only place I felt safe and understood. Horses held space for me when no one else could. Their quiet, constant presence was, and still is, God’s grace in action. In 2018, while working as a farrier for an Equine Gestalt Coach, I was introduced to a path that would transform my life. At first, I was skeptical, even resistant. But the horses saw through my façade, and the healing I experienced in just a few sessions was more profound than years of therapy alone.
I answered the call to train in the Equine Gestalt Coaching Method and graduated from Melisa Pearce’s two-year program in 2022. I then returned for the Master Gestalt Coaching program and graduated in 2024.
Just as my farrier business was thriving, chronic back pain and debilitating migraines forced me to let go of my beloved career. It was a devastating loss—one I wouldn’t have survived without the personal work I’d done and the deep connections I made through Gestalt. And yet, it was also an invitation.
Through my pain doctor, I learned about a cutting-edge, evidence-based approach to chronic pain called Pain Reprocessing Therapy. It takes time and commitment, but the results are profound and life-changing. I am now a certified Pain Reprocessing Therapy Practitioner, helping others reclaim and reshape their lives.
My healing journey isn’t just for me anymore. It’s a sacred mission to help others who feel stuck—in chronic pain, in fear, or in false beliefs about their worth.
If you look through the window of my life today, you’ll see a woman of strength and grace, guided by faith, and committed to forging a life of freedom, joy, and wholeness. You’ll see a woman who walks beside others as they do the same—with the help of horses, God’s unconditional love, and the transformational power of Gestalt.
Take my hand.
Let the horses and I walk with you to FORGE YOUR BEST LIFE.
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“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” – Proverbs
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