Equine Specialist Qualifications

2023 -   Became a Train-the-Trainer in EASD Programs

2022     Designed and wrote the Equine Assisted Skills Development (EASD) program in line with the Australian Curriculum

2022     Certificate of Equine Assisted Learning (Equine Connection, Canada)

2022     Certificate of Equine Facilitated Learning (AEFL)

2019     Certificate of Animal Assisted Therapies (Equine Institute)

2014     Certificate of Equine Assisted Learning and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAGALA, USA)

2014     Equestrian Australia & Pony Club qualified instructor & member (no longer financial)

2010     Equine Program facilitator for the Dep't of Education, NGO's & privately (2010 - now)

2005     Horsemanship Clinician (10 years) 

1980 -   Horse breaker, educator & competitor (still competing across multiple disciplines)

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   * To view Katrina working and breaking in an array of different horses head to YouTube and surf Ripple FX Katrina Miller  * 

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Katrina's life long fascination with horses has been a consuming addiction fuelled by their size, toughness, teachability, beauty, movement and strength of character. Her eldest son was riding before he could walk and many family adventures put horses forefront and centre. Both her sons became very competent, riders who have taken the knowledge and teachings of their horses, into their adult relationships and careers.

 

Katrina's second 'vice' was art and as such she completed a Masters of Contemporary Art and had many years as a drawing and design teacher for TAFE.  As luck would have it a change in politics forced a change of direction and while sweating under a Shetland Pony, as she trimmed its hooves, the owner asked if she had ever looked into Equine Assisted Psychotherapy.

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One thing lead to another and Katrina spent the next 9 years working as a Student Networker for the Dep't of Education facilitating Art & Music Therapy, Outdoor Adventure Therapy and The Eagala Model Equine Therapy.  This was a dream job for Katrina but ultimately she made the decision to leave the Dep't in June 2018 to start her own business so that the benefits of Equine Therapy could be accessed by a larger demographic.

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Katrina is now dedicated to pursuing the Equine Program full-time so that individual clients, agencies and schools can optimise the emotional wellness inherent when working with these amazing animals in The Eagala Model, solution based framework and Katrina's own program EASD, Equine Assisted Skills Development.

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