Equine Therapy Services
“There’s something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
— John Lubbock/Winston Churchill
Equine Therapy Services
Healing Hearts – Equine Facilitated Services.
Empathy – Trust – Psychotherapy – Validation – Peace
Healing Hearts: Equine Assisted Therapy, for children and adults working in nature amongst the gum trees, with Susan and Chris’s majestic Friesians.
Our Equine Therapy Programs
EFL summarised defines the relationship between horses and humans working collaboratively together. Horses have an innate ability to read us; they can see through any facade we may portray.
EFP describes the process by which a horse and qualified mental health practioner (counsellor) cofacilitate together to generate and support the client’s psychological and therapeutic journey.
Our Team
Meet our healers.
Debra currently holds a Bachelor of Teaching, Bachelor of Education, and Masters in Counselling (Psychology). Debra is a registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). Debra’s expertise and passion is predominantly working with at-risk youth. Her close friend and colleague, Susan, has a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP), and is registered with the Australian Friesian Horse Society (AFHS).
Susan and Debra collectively between them have in excess of some 56 years experience working with disadvantaged youth and disengaged clientele. Together, they will prove to make a formidable team, drawing on their individual expertise and collaboratively working together with their four-legged therapists.
Check out the link below to meet all of our team members!