Adaptive Riding
Adaptive Riding is a weekly mounted horseback riding for the purpose of contributing positively to individuals living with disabilities through the teaching of horsemanship and riding skills. As the participants work on riding skill-based goals through different tasks and activities, they can experience emotional benefits, including reduced feelings of depression and anxiety, increased self-esteem, enhanced focus, improved social skills, and a sense of control and connection. Lessons are taught by PATH Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructors. Lessons are most often groups of 4 individuals lasting one hour once each week.
B.I.T.S
BITS is made for individuals who:
Have past involvement with horses.
May have suffered an equine related injury.
Want to overcome any equine related trauma.
Equine-Assisted Counseling
Equine-Assisted Counseling EAC is an experiential form of counseling that includes horses to achieve personal and emotional growth. All EAC sessions are facilitated by a licensed mental health professional who works with an individual to address their personal goals. These goals are set forth by the client and the mental health professional. TROT offers special groups for women, teens, veterans and first responders.
Heroes & Horses
Heroes & Horses is specifically designed to address the needs of veterans and first responders of all abilities in our community. Our vision is to help them achieve both physical and emotional goals and improve their quality of life through the use of equine-assisted activities and therapies. Equine-assisted learning, adaptive riding, and equine-assisted counseling has been successful in helping veterans and first responders show improvements in emotional awareness, stress tolerance, independence, TBI, post-traumatic stress, impulse control and much more.
TROT’s Mental Health Professional is certified through Academy Hour, an organization dedicated to providing education and competency training to providers in the community in order to best serve Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders.
To honor and pay special tribute to those who have served, TROT offers this program at no cost to the veteran or first responder.
Riders Up!
Riders Up! is for men and women age 55 and over with age-related challenges. It is designed to enhance flexibility, endurance and strength for those experiencing reduced mobility because of injury, arthritis, or low muscle tone. Our Riders Up! program exercises both mind and body through structured lessons for riders of different levels.
Equine-Assisted Learning
Equine-assisted learning (EAL) is an experiential learning approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. Working with equines provides opportunities to teach critical life skills such as trust, respect, honesty and communication. Various format offerings are available for organizations and school groups. Please contact our office for more information about these opportunities.
Who can ride?
TROT provides services to a diverse population of individuals living with disabilities starting at age 4, including a specific class for military Veterans.
Most Common diagnoses are, but not limited to:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- ADHD
- Anxiety Depression
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Post-Traumatic Stress
- Down’s Syndrome
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Limb Amputations
