Horses grazing in a wide open pasture at Patti Schlough's working farm in Red Lion, Pennsylvania

A mindfulness and experiential approach
to grief, loss, and trauma.

Loss Can Take the Breath Right Out of You

Find your breath again, make sense of what's happened
and move toward the life you want.

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Serving Pennsylvania and Maryland Online and In Person from My Working Horse Farm in Red Lion, PA

What I Offer

Equine Therapy

This is psychotherapy, done on the ground.

Individual Therapy

Leaning into your pain, gently, is what finally brings relief.

Family Therapy

When one part of your family shuts down, everyone feels it.

Your Whole World Feels Unfamiliar Now

You wake up, and for one blurred second, everything is ordinary again. Then it comes back.

You reach for the routine that used to carry you, and it has nothing left to give.

The coffee goes cold. The morning stretches long and pointless.

What once felt certain and safe has gone strangely unfamiliar.

No One Seems to See What You're Carrying

You look into the faces around you, searching for someone who recognizes it.

A flicker of understanding. Anything.

What looks back is kind, and it isn’t enough.

You’re left with the emptiness, and the breathless realization that your whole reality has changed.

You're Caught Between What's Next and What Has Been

It’s hard to remember what happy felt like. Some days, even neutral feels out of reach.

Your mind spins ahead to what’s coming, then drops back to what’s been, and you find yourself held in place by both.

You Know Something Has to Give

Something has to give, and you feel it. The weight of this loss is more than one person was ever meant to hold, and holding it this way can’t continue.

Everyone keeps calling this the “new normal.” The thought of settling into it frightens you.

You want something different.

Split-rail fence across a sunlit field with morning mist lying low in the distance

What You're Feeling Makes Sense

Grief this size keeps no schedule, and it answers to no amount of willpower. Push it down, and it only learns to push back.

What you resist persists.

I’ve sat with people in the rawest hours of their lives, and I can tell you what they come to find: the breath does return. Slowly, unevenly, but it returns.

And I’ll be right alongside you while you find it.

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Hi, I'm Patti.

For nearly 30 years, I’ve traveled alongside people whose lives were turned upside down by a loss or a trauma they never saw coming. Every journey has been its own, and every one has asked something hard of the person walking it.

What makes the difference is the willingness to lean into the pain and learn to breathe again. Working with me feels a little wonky at times, and I’ll tell you that up front.

We slow everything down to notice your breath. We hold space and let a hard thing simply be hard for a while, and sometimes we move your body around or head out to the pasture so you can meet the horses. There’s no timeline here, just room to understand what you’ve been through and the grace to be exactly where you are.

Come as you are. Take a breath, then reach out, and we’ll begin together.

More About Me →

Two horses grazing beneath blazing autumn foliage beside a rustic fence

Meet Me at the Pasture

Some of the deepest work I do happens outside, with the horses.

You need no experience with them. You wear play clothes and closed-toe shoes, and you come exactly as you are.

A horse doesn't care what you got done today or how composed you look. It responds to what's honest in you, right now.

For grief that words haven’t been able to reach, that can be the beginning of something. For people who’ve felt regular talk therapy come up short, it can open a door nothing else has.

What happens next?

Reach out

Give me a call or send an email, and we'll look at what works for you.

A free first call

That first phone consultation is free, so we can talk things through and see if we're a good fit before you decide anything.

Your first session

We'll meet and begin the good work of therapy together. Sessions run about 55 minutes.

Find Your Breath Again

Finding your way out of the darkest corner of your life can feel lonely and frightening. When there’s a light to focus on, or a line to grab onto, the way starts to clear.

I’m here to be that light, that line, one step at a time, toward the place you want to be.

Take this as your opportunity to move toward hope and purpose.

Give me a call at (717) 873-1836, or send an email to [email protected].

Let’s begin that journey.

(717) 873-1836 [email protected]

160 Bahns Mill Road
Red Lion, PA 17356