Who We Serve

Located just 17 miles east of downtown Austin, Texas, Healing with Horses Ranch provides multiple equine-assisted services for people experiencing learning, behavioral, mental, emotional, and physical challenges in the greater Austin area. We serve Travis, Bastrop, Williamson counties & surrounding areas.

We serve three core populations through a combination of adaptive riding, equine-assisted learning, and equine-assisted psychotherapy services.

Resilience

Interactions with horses provide a non-competitive, non-judgmental setting to build emotional and social capacity, while providing individuals with relationships that are both caring & consistent. 

We focus on building self-awareness, enabling the individual to work through unexpressed emotional pain and learn how to recognize, verbalize and regulate their feelings.

Transition

Many veterans & first responders return from duty carrying physical & emotional wounds. Whether from combat zones, emergency scenes, or prolonged exposure to trauma, adjusting to everyday life can be difficult. Our program uses horses to support that transition.

Together, the horse & participant work on relaxation, memory, patience, confidence, physical wellness, and focus. These skills extend far beyond the arena and into daily life.

Independence

Because horseback riding rhythmically moves the rider’s body in a manner similar to a human gait, riders with physical disabilities often improve in flexibility, balance, muscle strength, and range of motion. In addition, due to the non-verbal communication between a horse & human, individuals practice communication in their own way.

Our program improves physical & cognitive skills that spark new independence within the rider that they can then carry over into everyday life.

Stay Up To Date

Coming Up Next

Our focused effort to recruit monthly supporters of the Ranch. Of course, you can become one all year round!

Next Event in the Community

We are honored to be the beneficiaries of this fantastic roving mini golf event for the third consecutive year in 2025.

Meet Our Herd

A central part of our team is, of course, the horses – our true teachers. We partner with a variety of breeds, shapes, and personalities of horses to meet the needs of our riders.

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