Brumby Equine-Assisted Therapy

22/02/2026

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Have Your Say on the Future of the NDIS!

The Australian Government is currently seeking public feedback on the proposed new NDIS Planning Rules — and this is an important opportunity for our ATL community to be heard.

These changes will shape how NDIS plans are developed, how supports are assessed, and how funding decisions are made. If you are a participant, parent, carer, therapist, support worker or advocate, your lived experience matters.

We encourage our community to make a submission and help ensure those important supports — including animal-assisted services— are properly understood and valued within the NDIS.

Submissions are open until 6 March 2026

Make your submission here:
https://consultations.health.gov.au/ndis/nfp-public-consultation/

Let’s work together to strengthen the NDIS and protect meaningful supports for participants.

20/02/2026

On the surface, this looks like a simple moment.
🎀Clips placed gently into a pony’s mane.

But moments like this are layered.

In equine assisted therapy, everyday interactions can become opportunities for nervous system awareness and relational learning.

Standing beside a pony invites the body to notice:

How close feels comfortable.
What safety feels like.
When to pause.
When to adjust.

A small shift from the pony becomes information.
A breath, a change in posture, a subtle movement.

This is where emotional regulation begins.
Not through instruction, but through experience.

Interoception grows through noticing internal sensations.
Proprioception develops through adjusting balance and position.
Relational awareness deepens through attuning to another living being.

Activities that appear playful can support:

• body awareness
• co regulation
• communication without words
• recognising and responding to personal needs

Layer by layer, capacity builds.

Sometimes therapy does not look like therapy.
Sometimes it looks like quiet presence in a paddock.

And sometimes, as some little people would say,
time to decorate…☺️

🐴“Summer, you sure look pretty.”

19/02/2026

🌱End of Term School Holiday Workshop🐴

Our equine assisted school holiday workshops are designed for children who benefit from something a little different.

This is a calm, supportive space where children spend time with horses, notice their feelings, move their bodies, and connect with nature in ways that feel safe and natural for them.

There is no pressure, no judgement, and no expectation to show up in any particular way. Some children arrive needing quiet and space. Others arrive full of energy and curiosity. All are welcome.

🐴 Misty offers calm and steadiness
🐴 Summer invites curiosity and exploration
🐴 Barney shows the strength of working together

The day unfolds gently. Fresh mountain air, creative play, and the steady presence of horses nearby. This experience is not about performance or outcomes. It is about slowing down, noticing, and building confidence from the inside out.

🌻 Who this is for
• Children aged 6–17
• Small group setting (maximum 6 children)
• Children who benefit from nature, animals, and relational learning

🌻 What we explore
• Emotional awareness and nervous system regulation
• Confidence, communication, and social connection
• Gentle, hands on horse interaction such as grooming and leading
• Nature based activities, mindfulness, and creative expression

📅 End of Term 1 Holiday Dates (NSW)
Saturday 11th of April 2026
Each session runs for 3 hours and includes a short break.

💰 Investment
$160 plus GST

📍 Location
Kanimbla, Blue Mountains NSW

🔗 Registrations are open
Spaces are limited.
Register here:
👉 https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/event-details/end-of-term-school-workshops

More Information:
👉 https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/event-details/end-of-term-school-workshops

✅ Facilitated by an ACA registered counsellor and certified Equine Assisted Mental Health practitioner.
NDIS funding may be used. Please reach out or check with your plan manager or support coordinator.

🌿 A few places remain.
🌏 www.brumbyeat.com.au

17/02/2026

📣 A gentle reminder and a little nudge if you’ve been thinking about joining us.

Only 3 spots remain for this beautiful professional training.

Intro to DBT for Equine Assisted Practice

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a structured, evidence based psychotherapy originally developed to support people with borderline personality disorder, but it is now widely used to support people experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, and relationship challenges.

Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning provide real time, experiential opportunities for clients to step outside their comfort zone, adapt to new situations, and build trust based relationships. Horses are deeply relational, and working alongside them creates powerful opportunities for embodied awareness, regulation, and meaningful change.

Bringing DBT into the paddock can make these skills more accessible, practical, and engaging, particularly for clients who find traditional talk therapy challenging.

This training is designed to help practitioners thoughtfully and ethically integrate DBT skills into equine assisted practice.

✨ Facilitated by
Sonja Keller – Founder of Innovative Social Work Solutions, trauma informed practitioner and DBT therapist

Camilla Mowbray – Founder of C Horses, clinical counsellor and psychotherapist

Parihan Wyatt – Counsellor and founder of Brumby Equine Assisted Therapy

✨ What to expect
•Introduction to the core DBT modules
•Practical integration into equine assisted work
•Experiential activities with horses
•Grounding, regulation, and herd observation

📍 Location
C Horses, Galston NSW

🗓 Date and Time
Sunday 8 March 2026
9:00am to 4:00pm

💰 Investment
$400 + GST

🎓 Professional Development
ACA approved for CPD points

🔗 Full details
https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/event-details/introduction-to-dbt-for-equine-assisted-therapy

✅ Registrations
https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/eventworkshopregistration

📧 parihan@brumbyeat.com.au
📞 0413 781 727
🌐 www.brumbyeat.com.au

16/02/2026

There is something deeply meaningful that happens when people come together in a shared space with openness and curiosity.

Over the past week, the theme of my professional training was community.
Not just being in the same room, but truly noticing how we show up.
What we allow ourselves to receive.
What we are willing to share of ourselves.

We explored presence, awareness, and the ways our experiences live not only in our thoughts, but in our bodies and our history.
Sometimes this means meeting younger parts of ourselves.
Sometimes it means simply sitting with what is here.

As humans, we are shaped in relationship, and we also grow and are transformed in relationship.
Being witnessed, witnessing others, and recognising that none of us are alone in the complexity of being human.

Spaces like this remind us that community is not about being the same.
It is about allowing each person to arrive as they are, and trusting that this is enough.

11/02/2026

Sometimes the work is not in doing
but in feeling

Trusting our own knowing.
Practising awareness.
Noticing what is here, without rushing to explain or change it.

Everything begins in the body.
Every sensation, every shift, every sense of safety or unease.
The nervous system is always speaking, often quietly.

When we take the risk to express what we notice, even in small ways, we begin to trust ourselves more.

This is something often seen in sessions with horses.

Horses live through their bodies.
They respond to what is real, not what is performed.
They notice the smallest shifts in breathing, tension and presence.

And when we slow down enough to feel, to notice the ground under our feet, the air, the rhythm of the body, something begins to settle.

Awareness grows quietly.
Trust follows.

Sometimes the work is simply to feel, and to allow that to be enough.

🌿🐴

Brumby Equine Assisted Therapy currently has capacity to welcome new clients.
✉️Enquiries: parihan@brumbyeat.com.au
🌐www.brumbyeat.com.au

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05/02/2026

📣 A gentle reminder and a little nudge if you’ve been considering this…

I’m really excited to share this beautiful collaboration.

Myself, Parihan Wyatt, together with Sonja Keller and Camilla Mowbray, are offering a one day Intro to DBT for Equine Assisted Practice professional training, designed specifically for practitioners wanting practical, hands-on skills they can take straight back into their work.

✨ A few important notes
• Spaces are still available
• No prior DBT training is required
• Places are limited to keep the day experiential and relational

The three of us bring different but beautifully complementary strengths.

Sonja brings over twenty years of trauma informed experience and deep DBT knowledge, supporting children, young people and adults through evidence based practice.

Camilla is a clinical counsellor and psychotherapist who has been practising in the equine assisted therapy space for over a decade. She brings evidence based, horse centred therapeutic work, supporting regulation, sensory integration and relational attunement, alongside her professional training background.

And I bring my nature based and equine assisted mental health practice, integrating counselling with the presence and attunement of horses to support embodied awareness, emotional regulation and deeper self understanding.

Across the day we will explore the five core DBT modules through hands-on, experiential learning, supported by the wisdom of horses. Practitioners can expect mindful movement, grounding, herd observation, practical equine activities, and plenty of space for real-time skill development, reflection and questions.

📍Location
C Horses, Galston, NSW

🗓️Date and Time
Sunday 8th March 2026
9:00am to 4:00pm

Investment
$400 + GST

🎓Professional Development
This training is ACA approved for CPD points.

🔗 Full event details and training information
https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/event-details/introduction-to-dbt-for-equine-assisted-therapy

✅ Registrations are open
🎟 Limited places available
https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/eventworkshopregistration

📧 Enquiries: parihan@brumbyeat.com.au
📞 0413 781 727
🌐 www.brumbyeat.com.au

04/02/2026

New space. bigger paddocks. a different rhythm.

There’s more space within the herd now,
more room to move,
less of that familiar closeness.

But contact isn’t only about being near
it’s about being present
and noticing what’s here.

Watching the herd settle
and supporting our visitors to settle too
has been a reminder that connection is still here
just in a different shape
even when everything looks different.

02/02/2026

We’re officially back 🤍🌿

After a short break, I’m feeling refreshed, grounded, and ready to return to routine at Brumby Equine Assisted Therapy.

During my time away, I found myself reflecting on something I notice often, and it stayed with me.

Therapy is still widely misunderstood. Sometimes it isn’t loud, it’s subtle. It’s in the comments people make, the way they avoid the topic, or the way they dismiss it altogether.

For some, it comes from an experience that didn’t feel supportive. For others, it’s because therapy asks us to slow down and look inward, and that can feel uncomfortable….or it may be something els for you.

And I get it.

But sometimes hesitation isn’t because therapy is useless. Sometimes it’s because you simply haven’t found the right match. The kind of match where you feel safe enough for your walls to soften, safe enough to speak honestly, and safe enough to be seen without judgement.

Because therapy is not a magic wand. It’s a process of awareness and rewiring, noticing what no longer serves you, and gently learning another way. Patterns that have taken years to build do not disappear after a few sessions. Real change takes time, and it takes openness.

And change doesn’t happen because someone else has the perfect words. It happens when a person feels safe enough to become aware. From that awareness, clarity begins to grow. Clarity creates choice, and choice helps us move forward.

No one is broken. No one needs fixing.

My role is to support people to understand themselves more clearly, build emotional awareness, learn regulation skills, and feel safer in their body and with others.

Equine assisted therapy is counselling, with horses included in the space. The horses are not a tool, and they are not there to “perform”. Their wellbeing and dignity will always come first.

I’m grateful to be back. Ready to hold space again, and quietly committed to continuing the education that helps this work be understood.

📩 bookings and enquiries: parihan@brumbyeat.com.au
🌿 www.brumbyeat.com.au

24/01/2026

Thank you 💜🙏Discover the Blue Mountains

💙🐎 One of the most moving stories in our latest magazine shines a light on the powerful work of Brumby Equine-Assisted Therapy .

We explore how equine-assisted therapy is helping people slow down, reconnect and rebuild confidence through gentle, guided interactions with horses. There’s no riding, no pressure — just presence, trust and the remarkable ability of horses to reflect emotions and create space for healing.

Set against the calm rhythms of the Mountains, Brumby’s work supports people navigating trauma, anxiety, disability, neurodiversity and life transitions, offering a form of wellness that’s deeply human, grounded and quietly transformative.

It’s a beautiful reminder that healing doesn’t always come in words — sometimes it comes in breath, stillness and connection. 💫

📖 Read the full story on Pages 8–9: https://bit.ly/DiscoverBMsummer2025

☀️ Blue Mountains Visitor Information Centres Sydney.com Visit NSW

23/01/2026

We are taking a short break 🌿
a gentle pause 🤍
away from 24th jan to 2nd feb

I’ll be slower to respond during this time, but will get back to everyone once I return.

Thank you for your kindness and patience. 🤍

22/01/2026

Dr Edith Eger emphasises that change does not come from thinking our way out of pain, but from allowing ourselves to feel what lives in the body and becoming aware of our internal dialogue.

She speaks to the importance of staying present with emotion and noticing the way we speak to ourselves, especially in moments of fear, grief, or distress. Not to relive the past, but to stop abandoning ourselves in the present.

I don’t often or try to use the word healing.
To me, this work is not about fixing or erasing what has happened.

Our story will always be part of our story.

What lands for me is transformation. The way our experiences shape us, inform us, and live within us, without defining or limiting who we become. I appreciate how Edith speaks of healing as a transforming process, one that honours what has been endured while creating space for choice, dignity, and self compassion.

Her book The Choice offers an exploration of these ideas. It is both deeply human and grounded, inviting reflection rather than offering quick solutions.

Nothing is taken away.
Something new is allowed to emerge.