Hoofbeats With Heart

Therapeutic Horse Back Riding: Riding skills are taught so riders may enjoy horseback riding as a recreation. Through carefully prepared activitities by our certified NARHA instructors, riders can learn to stop and start, turn, walk over obstacles, amongst other skills, with their equine partners

Equine Facilities Learning & Psychotherapy: This is a process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Experience and Leaning is the central component of how positive change, perspective, self-awareness, and transformation take place for the client. Our program partners horses with humans, focusing on a wide range of activities designed to practice social and life skills, enhancing self-esteem, and discuss topics such as values and character education. Our approach is non-directive, solution-oriented, and acknowledges the power of choice. Provide a metaphoric experience with horses to promote emotional growth. This experiental therapy teaches humans about themselves, allows regonition of dysfunctional patterns of behavior, and helps define healthy relationships, the horse assists in making clients aware of their emotional state as the horse responds in reaction to their actions.

Hippotherapy uses activities on the horse that are meaningful to the client. Treatment takes place in a controlled environment where graded sensory input can elicit appropriate adaptive responses from the client. Specific riding skills are not taught (as in Therapeutic Riding), but rather a foundation is established to improve neurological function and sensory processing. This foundation can then be generalized to a wide range of daily activities.

DTA: Day treatment and training for Adults. Hoofbeats provides a therapetic setting for adults with disabilities to spend the day with other adults with disabilities. The members learn skills, for daily living so they can be contributing members of society.