How I work
Education
My work is grounded in extensive training in equine manual therapy, informed by osteopathic principles.
This education has shaped how I assess, prioritise, and treat each horse, focusing on function, adaptability, and long-term soundness rather than isolated findings.
I continue to develop my skills through ongoing professional education, ensuring my work reflects current understanding of equine biomechanics, compensation patterns, and performance demands.
Experience
I work with horses in regular work and competition, as well as those presenting with long-standing, complex, or recurring issues.
Many of the horses I see have already had multiple interventions, yet continue to struggle due to unresolved underlying patterns.
This experience has shaped a methodical, considered approach, one that respects how horses adapt over time and how workload, management, and history influence what we see in the body today.
Osteopathic Principles
Osteopathic principles underpin how I view the horse as an integrated system. Structure, function, movement, and adaptability are inseparable.
Rather than chasing symptoms, I assess how restrictions in one area influence function elsewhere, and how compensatory strategies develop when the body is asked to perform despite underlying limitation.
This perspective allows treatment to be prioritised, relevant, and effective.
Whole-Horse Assessment
Each horse is assessed as an individual, taking into account posture, movement, workload, training stage, history, and current management.
Assessment is not limited to the area of concern, but considers how the whole body is functioning together. Treatment plans are shaped by what the horse is showing now, and what will be required of them going forward.
An Ongoing Care Philosophy
Consistency over crisis.
Horses rarely break down suddenly. More often, subtle restrictions and compensations develop gradually under workload, eventually reaching a point where performance declines, behaviour changes or injury occurs.
For many horses, especially those expected to perform, this means structured, ongoing care.
Initial treatment may involve closer intervals to create change, followed by planned maintenance to support adaptation, efficiency, and resilience over time.
This allows progress to build, movement quality to improve, and the horse to continue doing their job with greater ease and longevity, without waiting for something to go wrong.