Michelle’s Story 

“I have never known a time I haven’t felt passionately about horses. Growing up in Sydney it wasn’t easy keeping a horse….let alone a 17hh thoroughbred.  Many adventures and an incredible friendship that lasted 12 years saw me through my youth and guided me into an amazing life with horses.

Achieving qualifications as a riding instructor in my early years, I opened my own establishment in 2000, Ride Safe Riding School. 

I found the relationship between horses and humans incredible and it became evident that my work was not only teaching a physical skill but bringing emotional well-being and mindfulness to my clients as well.

Taking a new direction, with much of the same passion I began work in Public Education as an Aide for primary students. I then moved on to work in a high school setting with students ranging in behaviour, learning and social/emotional difficulties. All the time seeking a path for equine to play a part in this world!

Discovering Meggin Kirby and her Australian model of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy put me well and truly on the journey I am now on. With study and face to face time at the institute in Victoria, I have achieved Foundation accreditation in this amazing work. I have also worked through an Advanced Model (Child and Adolescent).

This and a Diploma of Counselling gives me knowledge and support to offer Equine Assisted Learning and Therapy for individuals looking for an alternative to room-based therapies.”