- Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT).
- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT).
- Equine-assisted psychotherapy.
Counselling & Equine-Assisted Psychologist
Dr Sharon Boyce
Dr Sharon Boyce is a Counselling Psychologist and Equine-Assisted Psychotherapist with a PhD in Psychology. Her work is grounded in existential positive psychology and logotherapy, with a strong focus on helping people improve quality of life through meaning-centred, values-guided change and the building of lives experienced as worth living.
Sharon brings a depth-oriented, research-informed, and experiential approach to psychotherapy. She integrates meaning-centred, person-centred, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and narrative-informed approaches, working with both reflective dialogue and embodied experience. Her focus extends beyond symptom relief toward meaningful and lasting change, with particular attention to strengthening agency, emotional regulation, and hope.
Her therapeutic style is collaborative, respectful, and choice-sensitive. She combines depth work with a practical, change-focused orientation, working alongside clients to clarify goals, strengthen coping and emotional regulation, and take meaningful steps toward building a life that feels more stable and worth living, while exploring and reshaping the personal stories through which they understand themselves and their future possibilities.
Equine-assisted psychotherapy and nature-based work are a core part of Sharon’s clinical approach. Sessions are ground-based and take place in the horses’ natural environment, with explicit respect for client choice, appropriate boundaries, and the welfare of the humans and animals involved. Rather than relying only on conversation, this work uses real-time interaction, non-verbal communication, and embodied awareness to support present-moment attention and clearer relational and self-regulatory patterns. Horses are engaged as active relational partners in the process, whose sensitivity and social nature create an honest experiential therapeutic context in which clients can explore meaning, agency, and new ways of responding, often through metaphor, lived experience, and personal life stories that can be carried into everyday life.
Clients often experience Sharon as grounded, steady, and deeply present. She works alongside each person with respect and care, supporting them to become active authors of their own change process.
A lifelong lover of horses, dogs, and the natural world, Sharon values the honesty and quiet wisdom that often emerge when people connect with nature, and she brings this orientation to her therapeutic work at White River Manor.
