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Equine Assisted Counselling & Learning

Equine Assisted Counselling and Learning offers a unique, experiential approach to supporting emotional wellbeing and personal development. Through ground-based activities with horses, participants gain greater insight into their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, supported by the horse's natural sensitivity to human emotion.

I provide one-to-one sessions for children, young people, and adults, as well as small group sessions of up to six participants. Programmes are tailored to individual needs, with extensive experience working alongside primary and secondary schools, SEN departments, residential children's homes, and wider organisations.

This includes supporting children and young people with additional SEN learning needs, emotional regulation difficulties, and those who have experienced significant trauma. Sessions are designed to be safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate, helping participants build confidence, resilience, self-esteem, and emotional regulation.

Horses offer immediate and honest feedback, making them powerful partners in developing self-awareness, communication skills, boundaries, and emotional understanding. Many participants experience positive changes in confidence, empathy, behaviour management, and overall wellbeing. Alongside therapeutic support, sessions can also help improve engagement, trust, problem-solving skills, and relationship building in a calm and natural environment.

Support for Young People

Working with children and young people requires a different approach. They do not always have the language to express what they are feeling, so I use creative and therapeutic methods, art, craft, play, sand tray work, and the animals themselves. These approaches allow children to communicate their inner world in a way that feels natural and safe.

I have many years of experience supporting children and teenagers through anxiety, bereavement, behavioural challenges, SEN needs, autism, ADHD, and PTSD. I am also an external provider for a local Academy Trust and am DSL Safeguarding trained, which strengthens my work across educational and multi-agency settings.

If you are a parent or carer looking for support for a child or young person, please get in touch for an initial conversation about what might work best.

Clinical Supervision

I have been a clinical supervisor for many years and value the variety, depth, and professional connection it brings. I particularly enjoy supporting trainee counsellors as they grow in confidence and move toward qualification.

My approach is integrative, grounded in the person-centred model and informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), systemic thinking, and the Seven Eyed Model of Supervision. I work within the BACP Ethical Framework and follow the professional standards of Horses in Education and Therapy International (HETI).

I also offer equine-assisted counselling supervision for practitioners who incorporate horses into their therapeutic work. Supervision is available monthly or fortnightly, online and in person.