Psychological and emotional benefits

• Reduced anxiety, stress, and depression

• Improved confidence and self-esteem

• Improved self-awareness and resilience

• Promotes emotional regulation 

• Develops anger management

• Develops problem-solving skills

• Increased trust and assertiveness

Social and behavioural benefits

• Learn how to set and assert healthy boundaries

• Become less reactive to frustration

• Develops and maintains relationships

• Better impulse control

• Increased empathy

Physical benefits

Equine therapy is an active process. Rehab patients participating in equine therapy are required to move around, walk, and interact physically with their horses, thereby engaging in light physical exercise. Research has proven that this activity further stabilises the mood and promotes recovery.