Greer Swiatek
- Natural Lifemanship Clinician and Trainer
- Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas
- Nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor
- Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA
- Private Practice in Austin, TX specializing in Children and Families
Greer Swiatek, LPC, CRC, NCC, NLC-P is a Licensed Psychotherapist in Private Practice who provides individual and family counseling. She is certified in TF-EAP and is a Natural Lifemanship trainer. She utilizes a collective approach in therapy, encouraging people to feel empowered during the therapeutic process and in their everyday lives. Her theoretical orientation is Person-Centered, meaning she promotes growth by harnessing unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and a strong therapeutic alliance with her clients. Above all else, Greer sees her relationship with clients as the central component to growth.
Greer earned her Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed intensive training in the Natural Lifemanship Model of Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP). Greer provides traditional psychotherapy in her office as well as Equine Assisted Psychotherapy at a local Ranch.
OUR NEXT TRAININGS
Building Your Resilience
Working in the mental health and helping professions can be psychologically and emotionally taxing. We all know, intellectually, that we need deep and restorative self-care in order to be at our best. Now, offering our support to clients is harder than ever. If there ever was a time when we needed to focus on filling our own wells, it is now. That’s why The Natural Lifemanship Institute, in collaboration with our students and partner sites, is offering the Building Your Resilience series: multiple online opportunities for profound self-care - through mindfulness, meditation, self-reflection, and more.
Please join us for what we hope will be deeply restorative online workshops in our connected community of helpers and healers.
The NEW! Business Building Master Class
Introducing the NEW Business Building Master Class - the most comprehensive business building course yet - build the equine business of your dreams!
We all know how hard it is to make a living in this industry - the average person stays in this business of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and/or Learning for only 2 years. Learn from industry leaders who have maintained their businesses for over 2 decades! Join Bettina Shultz-Jobe of Natural Lifemanship and Shannon Knapp of Horse Sense of the Carolinas as they walk you through the business-building process, from vision to finalized business plan. There just aren’t any other opportunities like this out there. This course meets online for 13 virtual sessions of 90 minutes each.
NEW: The Virtual Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship from Home! Helping people form connected, trusting relationships to overcome toxic stress and trauma has never been more critical than it is at this exact moment in history. At the Natural Lifemanship Institute, we have spent the last 10 years teaching our Fundamentals training to mental health professionals, life coaches, equine professionals, and others in the healing professions. And now, for the first time ever, we are offering this essential training online from the comfort of your home. We have specially designed this training to meet YOUR needs, with three options to choose from.
Connected Horsemanship Training
There are plenty of places to learn horsemanship skills - but none carry the deeply healing and consciously humane values of Natural Lifemanship. This is THE place to develop your horsemanship abilities based on NL principles - whether your partnership with horses is recreational, professional, or clinical. All levels of experience are welcome!
NL Conference 2020
Our 2020 conference is going virtual!! We are so excited to introduce our first weeklong virtual event: Interconnected 2020. We have an amazing lineup. Click below to learn more and save the date.
NL Personal Intensive
It is said that you cannot take clients on journeys that you have not traveled. To serve our clients well, we must have personal experience navigating some of the profound aspects of human experience. How aware are you of your attachment style? Do you know how it impacts your relating, and in particular, how it impacts your work with clients? Participate in active learning as you explore your own approach to the world, and how intentional therapeutic experiences can move us all toward more secure attachment.
SPECIAL Relationship Logic Immersion Training and Campout – Wild Horse Sanctuary, Shingletown, CA
Join us for a very special, rustic, 4-day immersion training cabin camping at Northern California's beautiful Wild Horse Sanctuary! This one-of-a-kind experience gives you the opportunity to experience the process of building a connected relationship with a wild horse. Connect with nature, connect with yourself, connect with wild horses, connect with NL trainers, and connect with each other. This experience sells out fast and typically is offered once per year.
Rhythmic Riding Immersion
The purpose of mounted work in TF-EAP is to deepen the connection the client experiences with the horse while leveraging the physiological support that the movement of the horse provides. Mounted work provides a powerful opportunity for clients to deepen their sense of connection with themselves and with their horse while benefitting from "bottom-up regulation." The NL Intensive is required prior to attending this training.
Blended Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience more rewarding connections while empowering others to do the same. Build a business helping people with the help of horses. Help others overcome trauma and stress. The Fundamentals of NL is our basic training and the entry point for all advanced trainings as well as our certification process. Learn, Experience and Connect through Natural Lifemanship.
Natural Lifemanship Intensive
The NL Intensive is an advanced, hands-on training for people who have completed the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship. In a small group setting working with a partner you will spend 3 days building a connected relationship with your horse (on the ground, and possibly, eventually mounted) and helping your partner do the same. The NL Intensive is required for basic NL certification and is also a pre-requisite for the Relationship Logic and the Rhythmic Riding Immersions.
Relationship Logic Immersion
Experience the sensitivity of an untrained horse. Practice being deeply in touch with your own body energy as you build a relationship based on predictability and safety. Learn how to help a horse build the capacity for trust and intimacy with a human, and how to help humans who have experienced trauma. Relationship Logic Immersion counts towards Advanced Certification. The NL Intensive is a pre-requisite.
Equine Connected EMDR (EC-EMDR)
Natural Lifemanship EC-EMDR training is a three-day hands-on training workshop for EMDR trained clinicians and their EPs who practice Natural Lifemanship Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP).
Natural Lifemanship for Spiritual Connection
For many the spiritual realm of life is where we seek meaning and belonging; it may also be the place of some of our deepest wounds. Natural Lifemanship helps us explore, experience, practice and transform connection patterns in the depths of our being where our sense of self touches its very source and the ground of all being. Experience and learn how NL can help you bring others to a place of deeper connection with self and others, resting in our true nature of absolute belonging.
Building Your Resilience
Working in the mental health and helping professions can be psychologically and emotionally taxing. We all know, intellectually, that we need deep and restorative self-care in order to be at our best. Now, offering our support to clients is harder than ever. If there ever was a time when we needed to focus on filling our own wells, it is now. That’s why The Natural Lifemanship Institute, in collaboration with our students and partner sites, is offering the Building Your Resilience series: multiple online opportunities for profound self-care - through mindfulness, meditation, self-reflection, and more.
Please join us for what we hope will be deeply restorative online workshops in our connected community of helpers and healers.
The NEW! Business Building Master Class
Introducing the NEW Business Building Master Class - the most comprehensive business building course yet - build the equine business of your dreams!
We all know how hard it is to make a living in this industry - the average person stays in this business of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and/or Learning for only 2 years. Learn from industry leaders who have maintained their businesses for over 2 decades! Join Bettina Shultz-Jobe of Natural Lifemanship and Shannon Knapp of Horse Sense of the Carolinas as they walk you through the business-building process, from vision to finalized business plan. There just aren’t any other opportunities like this out there. This course meets online for 13 virtual sessions of 90 minutes each.
NEW: The Virtual Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship from Home! Helping people form connected, trusting relationships to overcome toxic stress and trauma has never been more critical than it is at this exact moment in history. At the Natural Lifemanship Institute, we have spent the last 10 years teaching our Fundamentals training to mental health professionals, life coaches, equine professionals, and others in the healing professions. And now, for the first time ever, we are offering this essential training online from the comfort of your home. We have specially designed this training to meet YOUR needs, with three options to choose from.
Connected Horsemanship Training
There are plenty of places to learn horsemanship skills - but none carry the deeply healing and consciously humane values of Natural Lifemanship. This is THE place to develop your horsemanship abilities based on NL principles - whether your partnership with horses is recreational, professional, or clinical. All levels of experience are welcome!
NL Conference 2020
Our 2020 conference is going virtual!! We are so excited to introduce our first weeklong virtual event: Interconnected 2020. We have an amazing lineup. Click below to learn more and save the date.
NL Personal Intensive
It is said that you cannot take clients on journeys that you have not traveled. To serve our clients well, we must have personal experience navigating some of the profound aspects of human experience. How aware are you of your attachment style? Do you know how it impacts your relating, and in particular, how it impacts your work with clients? Participate in active learning as you explore your own approach to the world, and how intentional therapeutic experiences can move us all toward more secure attachment.
SPECIAL Relationship Logic Immersion Training and Campout – Wild Horse Sanctuary, Shingletown, CA
Join us for a very special, rustic, 4-day immersion training cabin camping at Northern California's beautiful Wild Horse Sanctuary! This one-of-a-kind experience gives you the opportunity to experience the process of building a connected relationship with a wild horse. Connect with nature, connect with yourself, connect with wild horses, connect with NL trainers, and connect with each other. This experience sells out fast and typically is offered once per year.
Rhythmic Riding Immersion
The purpose of mounted work in TF-EAP is to deepen the connection the client experiences with the horse while leveraging the physiological support that the movement of the horse provides. Mounted work provides a powerful opportunity for clients to deepen their sense of connection with themselves and with their horse while benefitting from "bottom-up regulation." The NL Intensive is required prior to attending this training.
Blended Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience more rewarding connections while empowering others to do the same. Build a business helping people with the help of horses. Help others overcome trauma and stress. The Fundamentals of NL is our basic training and the entry point for all advanced trainings as well as our certification process. Learn, Experience and Connect through Natural Lifemanship.
Natural Lifemanship Intensive
The NL Intensive is an advanced, hands-on training for people who have completed the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship. In a small group setting working with a partner you will spend 3 days building a connected relationship with your horse (on the ground, and possibly, eventually mounted) and helping your partner do the same. The NL Intensive is required for basic NL certification and is also a pre-requisite for the Relationship Logic and the Rhythmic Riding Immersions.
Relationship Logic Immersion
Experience the sensitivity of an untrained horse. Practice being deeply in touch with your own body energy as you build a relationship based on predictability and safety. Learn how to help a horse build the capacity for trust and intimacy with a human, and how to help humans who have experienced trauma. Relationship Logic Immersion counts towards Advanced Certification. The NL Intensive is a pre-requisite.
Equine Connected EMDR (EC-EMDR)
Natural Lifemanship EC-EMDR training is a three-day hands-on training workshop for EMDR trained clinicians and their EPs who practice Natural Lifemanship Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP).
Natural Lifemanship for Spiritual Connection
For many the spiritual realm of life is where we seek meaning and belonging; it may also be the place of some of our deepest wounds. Natural Lifemanship helps us explore, experience, practice and transform connection patterns in the depths of our being where our sense of self touches its very source and the ground of all being. Experience and learn how NL can help you bring others to a place of deeper connection with self and others, resting in our true nature of absolute belonging.
RECOMMENDED BLOG ARTICLES BY GREER SWIATEK
Dropping the Saddle: A Case Study About a Boy Seeking Connection
January 10, 2018
Dropping the saddle to find a connection. "Oliver realized that his agenda to ride was taking him further away from what he desired most, connection."
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