Programs using horse interaction and equine-assisted activities to support therapeutic, developmental, or emotional wellness goals for children and adults.
Our two nationally known therapy horses Buddy & Sissy provide Equine Assisted Learning services to seniors, High Functioning Autism, Stress and anxiety , bereavement , loneliness, and pure enjoyment of being with horses.
Occupational therapist Janet Weisberg founded this Greenfield nonprofit in August 2006, and it now runs two licensed clinical programs on a private farm with heated indoor and outdoor space. Occupational therapy sessions combine mounted work and groundwork, using the horse’s movement to address motor planning, coordination, emotional regulation, communication and sensory integration; clients start with […]
Minnesota’s oldest and largest therapeutic riding program by its own account, We Can Ride has operated since 1982 as a 501(c)(3) and holds Premier Accredited status with PATH Intl. It works out of Baker Park in partnership with the Three Rivers Park District, where roughly 500 volunteers and more than a dozen therapy equines support […]
Kim Howard founded Majestic Hills Ranch after buying its 105-acre Lakeville property in 1997, gaining 501(c)(3) status two years later. The ranch runs adaptive riding programmes for children aged 4 to 17 and adults over 18 with special needs, alongside a separate Heroes on Horseback programme serving injured, active-duty and veteran military personnel. Riding sessions […]
From an address on Vega Avenue in New Germany, this farm runs therapeutic riding alongside ordinary western lessons. The equine-assisted side is taught by a PATH Intl. Certified Riding Instructor with 10 years experience, Red Cross certified and insured, and the farm is blunt about the limits of what it does, stating that it does […]
A 20-acre farm at 11500 Ferman Avenue SW in Waverly has been running since 2000 with a string of twelve horses. Executive director Susie Bjorklund is listed as a PATH Certified Instructor and an Equine Specialist in Mental Health & Learning. Adaptive riding is entered by phone interview, then paperwork, then placement into a weekly […]
Four riders on borrowed horses made up the first programme in 1981, started by Dr Peter Bosomworth with local horse people. The charity now works from the John A. and Virginia Creech Therapeutic Riding Center inside the Kentucky Horse Park, more than 50,000 square feet under one roof holding an indoor arena, stalls, wash racks […]
Set up in 2005, this Madison County charity now works from Jacks Creek Riding Stable on Jacks Creek Road in Richmond, where a twenty-year lease from owner Bob Heyer gives it the arena, stalls, pasture and a second barn; the arena footing was replaced with river sand in 2021. It is a Premier Accredited Center […]
Weekly lessons are billed at $77.43 and subsidised to $50 for self-pay clients at this Cleburne charity, which has been providing the partnership of a horse for children and adults with disabilities and challenges since 1996. Entry runs through an online interest form plus one form completed and signed by a medical healthcare professional; clients […]
Operating since 1992 and at its Roanoke site since 2013, having started out in Keller, this nonprofit centre runs two distinct strands of work. Adaptive riding uses mounted and unmounted horsemanship for clients with physical, mental, cognitive, social or behavioural challenges, taught by PATH Intl certified instructors. Separately, physical therapy incorporating hippotherapy uses the variable […]
Stars and Strides Stables has run equine-assisted activities for children and adults with physical, cognitive, sensory and emotional disabilities from its Sandpiper Drive facility in Weatherford since 2012. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit’s coaches are certified through PATH International, among them programme director Teresa Miller, who has worked with horses and people with disabilities for more than […]
Counselling here is described as Equine and Animal Assisted Counseling, a psychotherapy modality that allows emotionally hurting individuals to build a relationship with a horse or other animal to bring about transformation and healing, delivered alongside EMDR and facilitated by Licensed Professional Counselors or LPC interns. The charity became a 501(c)(3) in 2009 under founder […]
Equine-assisted therapy covers a range of programs that use interaction with horses to support therapeutic, developmental, or emotional goals. It is a…
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