Hot Mess Healing, with Casey and critters

Hot Mess Healing, with Casey and critters vet tech onto her second career of doing animal assisted therapy, and veterinary social work. 🐾🐎❤️‍

988 = Su***de and Crisis Hotline - help is available, and you do matter. If you are in emergent risk of harm to yourself or others, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. I'm a social work student working in the mental health field. My goal is to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with post-graduate certifications in in Veterinary Social Work, Trauma, EMDR, and Animal-Assisted Therapy. I proudly work with a specialty trauma practice called Valor Horses for Heroes in North Carolina as an Equine Specialist in our Equine Assisted Psychotherapy program. After a 15 year career in veterinary medicine, I left the field to find a way to help from the outside. As a tech, I never felt understood by therapists when seeking help. Disinfranchised grief (grieving something not seen, understood, or valued by others) is very real, and weight of vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury is taking a devastating toll on the field and the lives of our beautiful souls inside the field. I needed to get to a place where I could heal, and then offer tools to my colleagues for their own healing. I also aim to help others benefit from the healing that can come from the Human-Animal Bond in Animal-Assisted Therapy sessions. For now, I can offer psycho-education here on my page, silly animal memes to help you smile, and hopefully help guide you to places that can help you where you are atin your journey. Our practice in NC is accepting new clients, and if you are out-of-state I urge you to look for other services near you (EMDRIA.org , EAGALA.org , psychologytoday.com ).

11/12/2025

keep hope alive
things will get easier soon…
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11/12/2025
11/11/2025

“In every quiet moment with a horse,
a little piece of yourself returns.” - Human & Horse

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Women are under diagnosed, and these are some of the reasons we go without proper awareness and support. I was a horse o...
10/26/2025

Women are under diagnosed, and these are some of the reasons we go without proper awareness and support. I was a horse obsessed kid. Normal for girls, right? No, not to the extent where it was the only way I could socially cope. I was distressed by kids playing Barbie’s, house, or school unless I could play the animal. This is one small example of my neurodivergent self struggling in a neurotypical world. Imagine how we can help kids now by promoting acceptance, autonomy, and support?

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1303 NC 306 Highway S
Grantsboro, NC
28529

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http://www.valorhorses.com/, https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/1587361?preview=

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