Workshops

 3-Day Equine-Assisted Therapy Workshop for Allied Health Professionals

🐴 April 8th, 9th & 10th 2026. 

🐴 Learn how to facilitate Equine Assisted Therapy as an Allied Health professional. We cover NDIS, Medicare & AHPRA requirements while teaching you how to prepare horses for therapy work and how to design and facilitate an evidence-based intervention that meets the high professional standards required in the allied health field. 

🐴 Facilitated by Samantha King - Psychologist & owner of PAAW (multi-disciplinary canine assisted therapy clinic), owner & head trainer at Therapy Dogs Australia (therapy dog training @therapydogsaustralia), assistant trainer for The Brumby Project @thebrumbyproject, qualified horse handling instructor.

🐴 Work with 5 brumbies - all transitioned from wild living to domestic for a career in equine assisted therapy. 

🐴 Upper Caboolture, QLD 

🐴 $880

🐴 6 spaces per workshop 

**International attendees are welcome. 

We will be teaching you horse-handling skills, however this 3-day workshop does not equip you with enough horsemanship to provide equine therapy on your own. This workshop will serve as either an introduction to the field, or a professional development opportunity for those already in the field. Your core training to become and equine-assisted therapist will be extensive, it is not something that can be covered in a 3-day workshop. 

Previous horse handling experience is a benefit, but not compulsory. 

The workshop is all ground work (as is our equine-therapy style).

This workshop is suitable for clinicians who are already working with horses in therapy, who want to start their equine therapy journey, or who are working/wanting to work alongside an equine specialist in their therapy sessions. 

We will be spending 3 days together getting to know the horses (brumbies, who have been trained specifically for therapy), teaching you how to structure an equine-assisted session, doing role plays and skill development in ethical horsemanship. Topics such as equine body language and learning theory will be applied to horsemanship skills. 

This is a hands-on workshop, expect to be up and about for 3 days! 

🐴 IMPORTANT NOTE🐴

This workshop is for allied health professionals who are already working within their scope of practice. An allied health professional is typically at a minimum Bachelor trained in their field. 

'Allied Health' fields typically relevant in this context include:

• Physiotherapists
• Occupational therapists
• Speech pathologists
• Psychologists
• Social workers
• Counsellors
• Exercise physiologists

If you are in a field different to those mentioned above, please reach out to see if this workshop is suitable for you before booking.