our clients

Clubhouse

Today we work predominantly with Clubhouse– France’s largest mental health charity with day centres across all major cities across the country. Clubhouse provides a mental health recovery community and supports people by accompanying them on their journey to reintegration.

For the time being we are working on a bi-weekly basis with Clubhouse Marseille, and we will begin working with CLubhouse Lyon from September 2025.

A day with us

When participants join us for the day, on arrival two groups are formed; the first helps prepare a lunch for everyone, the second prepares and grooms the horses for the sessions that will take place that day.

After lunch, our Equitherapist Yannique arrives. We start with a check in to get a sense of participants’ energies that day.

Each participant then goes to connect with their horse of choice and the one they will work with that afternoon. Participants then lead their horses into the ring and everyone  does a meditation / breathing exercise together to synchronise their heartbeats with those of the horses.

Participants then engage in individual exercises with their horse before carrying out a group-based game.

After a few hours of equitherapy in the outdoors, tea and biscuits are enjoyed before departing back to Marseille.

All sessions are supported by a team of four volunteers.