Healing Hoofs and Therapeutic Services

31/08/2026

Episode 9 of Big Horse, Little Horse. The road trip. The connection and the fun continues...

31/08/2026

🐴💜 IT’S OFFICIAL!

Healing Hoofs and Therapeutic Services is now officially onboarded as a Carer Gateway supplier!

Carer Gateway workers in the areas we service can now refer carers to us for equine, nature-based and online therapy. 🌿🐴

As someone with lived experience as a carer, this one means a lot.
We’re officially ready to receive referrals! 💜

30/08/2026

30/08/2026

🐴 Another beautiful weekend with our Healing Hoofs equine group. 🌿

This weekend we continued exploring safe pathways, connection, trust and leadership, taking the conversation out of the therapy space and into the paddock.

Participants spent time connecting with their horses before moving into leading exercises, noticing what happens when we communicate clearly, regulate ourselves, adjust our approach and allow another being to respond rather than trying to control the outcome.

There were moments of reflection, laughter, frustration, problem solving and some really lovely connections between humans and horses.
And, as always, the horses gave immediate and wonderfully honest feedback. No judgement. No pretending. Just information. 🐴🤎

The smallest members of the Healing Hoofs team also supervised proceedings very seriously. Their performance reviews of the humans are still pending. 😂

So grateful to be able to offer a space where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves and practise doing things differently, one step (and occasionally four hooves) at a time.

🌿 Healing Hoofs Equine Assisted Therapy
Connection • Reflection • Growth 🐴

26/08/2026

🌿🐴 HEALING HOOFS IS NOW ACCEPTING FAS-FUNDED REFERRALS 🐴🌿

I’m excited to share that Healing Hoofs is now welcoming clients accessing counselling support through Victoria’s Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS), formerly associated with VOCAT/Victims of Crime support.

Eligible clients with approved FAS counselling funding can access therapeutic support through Healing Hoofs, including:
🐴 Equine Assisted Therapy
🌿 Nature-Based Therapy
💻 Online Therapy

For people who have experienced violence and trauma, traditional counselling rooms don’t always feel like the right place to heal.
Healing Hoofs offers another way.

Therapy can happen alongside horses, surrounded by nature, or safely from home through online sessions. Each person can choose the therapeutic environment that feels most supportive for them.
Healing Hoofs provides trauma-informed counselling with a strong focus on safety, choice, connection and empowerment.

💚 FAS-funded referrals and enquiries are now welcome.
📍 Equine & nature-based therapy | Kilmore, Victoria
💻 Online therapy | Victoria-wide

Please feel welcome to contact Healing Hoofs to discuss referrals or FAS-funded counselling.

Healing Hoofs Equine Assisted Psychotherapy 🐴🌿

25/08/2026

🐴🌿 BIG NEWS FOR HEALING HOOFS! 🌿🐴

I am incredibly excited to share that Healing Hoofs has partnered with Carer Gateway to provide therapeutic support to carers. 💚

Through this partnership, carers will be able to access Healing Hoofs for:

🐴 Equine Assisted Therapy
🌿 Nature-Based Therapy
💻 Online Therapy

This one mean so much to me.
As someone with my own lived experience of being a carer, I understand that caring for someone you love can be incredibly meaningful, but it can also be exhausting, isolating and all-consuming. Sometimes the person doing the caring quietly disappears somewhere underneath everyone else’s needs.

That lived experience is part of why this partnership feels particularly close to my heart. 💚

Carers spend so much of their lives caring for other people, often putting their own wellbeing somewhere near the bottom of a very long list. Having the opportunity to create a space where carers themselves can be supported, heard, strengthened and given time to simply be is incredibly special.

And I love that this partnership allows us to offer different ways of accessing therapy. Whether that means sitting together online, stepping outside into nature, or working alongside one of our beautiful horses, support can meet people where they are. 🌿🐴

Healing Hoofs started with a vision of doing therapy differently. Creating spaces that feel human, safe and connected, and taking therapy beyond four walls.

Seeing that vision continue to grow and now knowing that more carers will be able to access what we offer, is something I am incredibly grateful for.

Welcome to the Healing Hoofs family, Carer Gateway. 💚

The herd is ready.
🐴🌿

24/08/2026

A little glimpse into the weekend at Healing Hoofs 🐴🌿

There’s something pretty special about learning together outdoors, surrounded by the herd.

The weekend’s group brought conversation, reflection, connection and plenty of opportunities to learn from the horses themselves.

No clinical rooms or fluorescent lights, just real people, fresh air and horses inviting us to slow down, notice and be present.

This is what Healing Hoofs is all about. Creating a safe space where people can connect, learn and grow, with a little help from the herd. 🤎

23/08/2026

🐴 LESSONS FROM THE HERD #4

Trust is built in tiny moments.
Horses don’t decide to trust us because we tell them they should.
Trust is built quietly.
In the way we approach.
In whether we listen when they move away.
In whether our actions match what we communicate.
In what happens when they say no.
In whether we remain safe, predictable and consistent.
And people aren’t so different.
We often think trust is built through the big things: promises, declarations, apologies and grand gestures.
But most trust is built somewhere much less dramatic.
It’s built in the tiny moments.
You said you would call, and you did.
I told you something mattered to me, and you remembered.
I set a boundary, and you respected it.
I showed you a vulnerable part of myself, and you handled it gently.
For people who have experienced trauma, these moments can matter even more.

Because the nervous system is quietly asking:
“Is it safe to trust what happens next?”

The herd reminds us that trust doesn’t need to be rushed.

It can be built slowly.
One safe experience.
One respected boundary.
One consistent response.
Again and again.

Until one day, what once required courage begins to feel safe. 🤎

Trust isn’t built in one big moment.�It’s built in a hundred little ones.

22/08/2026

A beautiful morning at Healing Hoofs as we prepare to welcome participants for today’s group program. 🐴🌿

Workbooks ready, pens out, cuppas waiting and our outdoor therapeutic space set up amongst the horses and gum trees.

There’s something incredibly special about taking learning and healing out of the traditional therapy room and into a space where people can slow down, connect and experience things differently.

Today we’ll combine group discussion, reflection and experiential activities alongside the horses, exploring communication, boundaries, awareness and connection.
The herd is ready. The coffee is hot. Let’s begin. 🤎

21/08/2026

🐴 FARRIER DAY AT HEALING HOOFS 🐴

Yesterday was farrier day, which is no small operation when your therapy team has 36 hooves! 😂

Healing Hoofs is now home to 9 beautiful equines: 6 horses and 3 minis, and keeping every one of them healthy, comfortable and well cared for is a huge part of what happens behind the scenes.

Farrier visits, feed, dental care, vet care, paddocks, rugs, fencing… running an equine-assisted psychotherapy program involves so much more than the therapy sessions people see. These incredible animals are our partners in the work, and their wellbeing always comes first. 🤎

Nine horses makes for one very big farrier day… and one very important one! 🐴🩺

A very special thank you to Josh our wonderful farrier. 🐴🤎

Many of the horses at Healing Hoofs are rescues and come with their own histories, so having people around them who are patient, calm and gentle really matters. Josh’s quiet nature and the care he takes with each individual horse means they feel safe and comfortable during their trims. They are always so well behaved for him, and it’s very clear that they absolutely love him.

We’re incredibly grateful to have a farrier who understands that caring for their hooves also means caring for the horse attached to them. 🐴❤️