I started riding horses when I was five years old. From the very first time I was around them, I was hooked. I spent every moment I could at the barn, and for reasons I couldn't have articulated then but understand deeply now, it was the one place I felt fully safe and fully myself.

That feeling never left me. And it turns out, it was pointing me somewhere.

Hi! I'm Monica Provence,  Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the founder of The Good Practice. I have been providing therapy since 2012, working across a range of settings and modalities before finding my way to the work that feels most alive to me — equine-assisted psychotherapy, somatic approaches, and the belief that healing happens best when we are in genuine relationship. With each other, with the natural world, and with ourselves.

I hold EAGALA certification in equine-assisted psychotherapy and have continued my training through Natural Lifemanship, which has deepened my ability to integrate trauma-informed practices into every session. The horses are not props or backdrops. They are partners in the therapeutic process, and I have seen them reach people in ways that nothing else has.

What lights me up about this work is connection. The moment a couple finds their way back to each other. The moment a client realizes the horse is reflecting something they didn't know they were carrying. The moment someone who has spent years talking about their pain finally feels it shift in their body, out here in the open air, thirty minutes outside of Portland.

I built The Good Practice because I wanted a place where that kind of connection was possible. Where the barn could be, for someone else, what it was for me as a kid. A place to feel safe. A place to feel like yourself