Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy Outcomes

Work With Horses & Ponies

Excellent Facilities

Qualified Staff

Embrace The Bond With Horses

What Is Equine Therapy

ADO Therapy offer Equine Assisted Therapy from our own site and with our own trained horses and ponies. This popular service provides a fantastic opportunity to embrace the bond between these wonderful animals and those utilising our services. We have a grooming yard with stables , round pen, large horse arena, woodland walks (with stream) and many other facilities for our service users to enjoy some quality time bonding with our horses and ponies. EAT involves a range of beneficial activities such as;
♦ Grooming ♦ Feeding ♦ Project Work Around the Horses
♦ Leading a Pony or Horse ♦ Natural Horsemanship♦ Equine Facilitated

Interventions
Within Equine Assisted Therapy (EAT), there are pre-determined aims and goals to be achieved as the desired result of the therapy sessions, with support of professionals in their relevant field. These goals may cover a wide spectrum of improvements including physical, educational, mental health and motivational. For mental health or emotional and behavioural outcomes, the equine therapist will observe and interact with the service user through the session activities in order to identify patterns of behaviour, thoughts and emotions. By translating the horse's natural reactions to the body language or non verbal messages of our service user, this enables the service user to understand, communicate and express their own feelings more closely.

Physical Benefits
For physical benefits, improving dexterity or to aid recovery from injury or illness, equine therapy can be catered to the physical health outcomes accordingly and these can be discussed with any other existing health professional that maybe working with the client, for example, a Physio or Occupational Therapist.