Kross Fire is a 7 acre equine assisted services facility in Angus, TX. Our mission is healing from the ground up. We believe in digging deep to the sources of the struggle in order to enjoy healing and joy through relationships and connection.
We provide excellent quality services ranging from psychotherapy, to workshops, coaching, and riding lessons. All our services are based on interpersonal neurobiology and the principles of Natural Lifemanship™, and a deep and growing knowledge of trauma-informed care. We partner with horses to help individuals and teams learn and practice the principles that will create healing, safety, and success in their lives.
WE VALUE:
-
Understanding and learning how to create healthy connections
-
Partnering with horses for healing and growth for both horse and human
-
Changing the way the world understands equine assisted experiences, treatments, and relationships
-
Empowering individuals to create connected relationships with their horses
A Personal Note from Therapist, Krystal Raley
Kross Fire Counseling offers an inspiring opportunity for individuals to find empowerment and healing through Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP). The power of horses has provided a remarkable journey for me. It has now become my passion to help others find that healing, hope, and freedom.
View my video about Equine Assisted Therapy
*** Krystal Raley ***
Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor in both Texas and Wyoming
Certified in Natural Lifemanship as Mental Health Professional and Equine Professional
Krystal received her M.A. Sport-Exercise Psychology from Argosy University-Phoenix in 2005 and interned under Barbra Schulte of “Mentally Tough Riding.” She became a Licensed Professional Counselor in 2007. She has worked at residential facilities, helping adolescents, men and women, specializing in addiction (using the 12 Step Model) and mental health diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, Autism, ADHD and many others.
Krystal’s professional experience lays in helping her clients heal from past experiences to find freedom from their self-destruction. Her philosophy is not about superficial healing or quick fixes. Her desire is to guide clients in exploring how their thinking and feeling affects their behaviors and then learn to change those core beliefs to find meaning and fulfillment in order to have lasting relief and permanent solutions.
It is extremely exciting to offer counseling services partnering with horses. Unlike human therapists, horses have the ability to show our strengths and weaknesses, patterns, and beliefs much more quickly than in traditional therapy sessions, while being unbiased and non-threatening. You do not have to be a “horse person” in order to participate. In fact, anyone can benefit from these sessions. They are not based on horsemanship, riding, or training horses, but interactions that allow our core thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to be uncovered, explored and healed.
Krystal’s equine experience vasts over 25 years. She won Hunt Seat Equitation at the Quarter Horse Congress; in the same year, won 5th in Western Horsemanship, 10th in Showmanship at Halter, and Reserve All-Around Novice Youth. She has won dozens of “All-Arounds” at horse shows, qualified for the AQHYA World Show, and was in the top 25 in Western Horsemanship and English Equitation.
Krystal has worked with Tom and Leslie Lange, Mark Sheridan, and Bill Bormes, where she assisted in training several World Champion horses and gave lessons to World Champion competitors. She qualified “He’s Got the Luke” for the World Show in Jr. Hunter Under Saddle.
More recently, her clients won High Point Novice Youth in the Wyoming Quarter Horse Association, High Point Senior at Sheridan County 4-H, and High Point Junior at Sheridan County 4-H. In addition, those clients received numerous Championships and Top 10 awards at the Wyoming State Fair.