The interest in working with horses was due to his qualities as living being with a clean mental, relatively simple, soft and warm, rewarding and socially responsive, and capable of carrying, and not judging non-intrusive, able to accept the projections, ability to dialogue on an archaic, worthy of interest and care. These qualities do not make the horse a therapist, but it is able to open new opportunities for the therapist.

The Therapy with Horses consists of three basic principles necessary for the development of an individual according to M. Winnicot:

Holding: or Integration

A primary example is the aquisition of time and space and how to best utilize them both. This aquisition is a normal skill aquired from birth when a mother rears a child. However the re-learning of this security is of much importance.