Chloe's Place
You are not broken. You have adapted.
And adaptation — unlike damage — can change. Here’s what we believe about how adults heal, and what that looks like at Chloe’s Place.
IF YOU'VE TRIED THINGS BEFORE
Something hasn't shifted.
Maybe therapy has helped — to a point. Maybe you understand your patterns with real clarity, can name what happened to you, can trace the lines between then and now. And still something hasn't shifted.
The anxiety is still there in the morning. The relationships still follow the same shape. The body still braces before it thinks.
IF YOU'VE BEEN MANAGING ALONE
It's costing more than it should.
Maybe you're coming to this without much history with therapy at all. You've been managing — functioning, even thriving in some areas — while carrying something that never quite goes away.
You're not sure you need help, exactly. You just know that what you're doing is costing more than it should.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
This is not a therapy office.
Chloe's Place is a working sanctuary in Bethel, Connecticut — open land, wooden fencing, horses that move freely in the space around you. Sessions happen outdoors. The pace is set by you and by what your nervous system can hold, not by a fifty-minute clock and a checklist.
There is something that happens when a person steps out of a room and onto open ground. The body's relationship to space changes. The quality of attention changes. Things that were stuck in language sometimes become accessible in a different way — through movement, through proximity to an animal, through the particular kind of quiet that only exists outside.
"The horses respond to who you actually are, not who you're trying to be. For many adults, that is the first genuinely honest relationship they've had in a long time."
WHAT BRINGS PEOPLE HERE
You don't need a diagnosis to belong here.
Adults come to Chloe's Place carrying many different things. What they tend to have in common is that the weight of it has become harder to manage alone.
Complex Trauma & C-PTSD
Including childhood trauma, developmental trauma, and the particular exhaustion of a nervous system that never fully learned to rest.
Anxiety
Chronic, high-functioning, or situational. The kind that lives in the body as much as the mind.
Depression
Particularly where it is rooted in relational loss, disconnection, or a long history of not being met.
Autism Spectrum Differences
Whether newly diagnosed or long-known. The exhaustion of masking. A therapeutic environment that makes no social demands.
Relational & Attachment Wounds
The patterns that repeat across relationships. The difficulty trusting. The ways intimacy and safety became tangled.
The Therapy Ceiling
Understanding your patterns with real clarity and still living them. Something more than insight is needed. This is work for that.
THE APPROACH
How we work.
Hakomi : A mindful, body-centred psychotherapy that works with the implicit beliefs and automatic patterns stored in the nervous system. It is slow, curious work — and it goes deeper than most talk-based approaches because it doesn't require you to narrate your way to change.
Equine & Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy : Uses the relationship between you and the horses as a vehicle for insight and nervous system regulation. Horses read your actual state, not your performed one. What arises in that relationship is genuine — and genuinely useful.
Nature-Based Therapy : Works with the restorative and regulating effects of natural environments. Being outside — on open land, in contact with living things — activates the parasympathetic nervous system in ways an indoor room cannot replicate.
Attachment-Based Work : Places the therapeutic relationship at the centre. The experience of being consistently met, seen, and held through difficulty — repeated over time — is itself the intervention.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
What to expect.
The first session is an intake conversation — a chance for us to get to know each other, for you to ask questions, and for me to begin understanding what you're carrying.
You will not be expected to disclose everything at once. There is no intake pressure here. The work moves at the pace your nervous system can hold.
You will spend time outdoors. You will be near animals. You do not need any prior experience with either.
"The most important thing is not what you bring. It is that you come."
Ready when you are.
Reaching out is the hardest part for most people. If something in this page has landed — that's enough. You don't need more certainty than that.