BRITT PALMER, LMFT, LPCC, CEDS, NL-C-EP, C-TCYM

Britt Palmer

Britt Palmer is the owner and a therapist and equine professional at Connections. Britt created this program in order to be able to combine what she sees as the most effective forms of psychotherapy and intervention. She believes in the power of  experiential therapy such as equine assisted psychotherapy, art therapy, mindfulness, yoga and intuitive movement, along with family systems and trauma and attachment informed models of therapy including Restorative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and EMDR.

Britt specializes in treating trauma, attachment and eating disorders. She works with individuals, couples, families and groups. Britt is certified and is an approved consultant in training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor. She has been dually certified in two equine therapy models as both a mental health professional and equine professional, and has been a trainer with Natural Lifemanship Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. She is also certified in the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method.

Her experience with horses began at age 6, taking lifelong lessons and riding any horse she could until joining the Oregon State University Hunter/Jumper team where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Science, with an option in Child, Youth and Family Services in 1999. This is where she realized she wanted to incorporate horses into her work with people. She completed a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at National University in California in 2004. She and her family moved to the Memphis area from Northern California in 2007. Since 1999, she has had the privilege of working with developmentally delayed adults as a manager and program manager, has worked with adults and children in a inpatient acute psychiatric facility, has served as assistant program director of a non profit drug and alcohol residential program, and served as assistant director of an eating disorder IOP/PHP program until beginning her private practice. She now focuses her work at the office and at the farm in Memphis, primarily doing intensive trauma work with her patients. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Four horses and a mini donkey reside at the 19 acre farm and equine refuge called Our Happy Place. In 2019 she established Our Happy Place, Inc., a non profit entity designed to create scholarship funding for those seeking treatment and funding to care for rescued and surrendered equines.

To contact Britt directly you can email her at [email protected] or call  (901) 515-6165. Contact our office for general inquiries or questions at [email protected] or (901)440-8622.