The question I am most often asked is: how long does it take for ESCT to work on a horse? Depends on the horse, of course.
I worked with a remarkable Paso Fino that faced five stressors in an hour during a demonstration and then left the clinic in great shape to continue his integration and become, in the words of the owner, “a new horse.” I also worked with a little Arabian filly, injured by a downed electric power line to the point that her hooves melted, who took two years to respond to her owner’s patient practice of ESCT. But on the average, it takes three to five 45 to 60 minute sessions, spaced about 3 days apart, for the horse to overcome its fear in the short term.
Because integration between therapy sessions varies from horse to horse, and because integration continues over time, full resolution may not be seen until several weeks have passed with period reinforcement of ESCT. Most horses respond within the first 10 minutes in a very obvious ways and then continue to improve with each session.
This process closely follows what happens in humans during bilateral eye movement therapy and bilateral body tapping therapy and bilateral brain integration. Because there is no language overlay in horses and because we deal directly with a brain file cabinet full of memories which we can remove and replace, it happens much more quickly in horses than in humans. We are not dealing with the frontal cortex where humans live and where they hold attachments to the world as they know it. Horses have cortical functions but no distinctly separated left and right frontal lobes.
