OCEOLA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Ina Zeemering is using horses to help people find the burr under their emotional saddle.
The 64-year-old from Livingston County's Oceola Township runs the Zeemering Foundation, an equine-assisted psychotherapy program that uses horses to bring out clients' emotions.
Quarreling mothers and daughters are among the clients who have been asked to put horses through sometimes conflicting paces.
Zeemering says her therapeutic approach helps illustrate hidden conflicts between people and promotes healthy discussion.
Zeemering says horses and people are similar in that both are instinctual and much of their communication is nonverbal. But, she says, people "just don't pay as much attention."