Sue has always had horses in her life. From the age of 9 she was enjoying hacking and local gymkhanas, by the age of 14 she had backed her first two youngsters (two foals rescued from the New Forest sales). Her mum never had to worry about where she was in those formative teenage years as she was at home with the horses during the week and competing in show jumping or cross country classes on the weekends!

By the time Sue was 16 years of age she had won many trophies and ribbons and was starting to get quite a reputation for working with 'problem horses'.  It was at this time she started to see that the problems were man-made, however she did not have the know how to fix that part of the puzzle.

As Sue's passion grew, so did the need to help finance it! Horses were brought in for livery, several mares came from a local stud, and part of the financial arrangement was a foal each year! These were ultimately backed by Sue several years on.

This background gave Sue a huge amount of experience in running a livery yard, horse welfare, stable management and raising and backing youngsters, along with the people skills needed for it all to run smoothly.

Sue always had a leaning towards less is best!!! In fact she was often seen riding and jumping bareback in a halter, the strong bond she had with all her ponies meant that this was achievable. In the late 70s bareback jumping competitions were allowed at local shows and Sue always brought those first prizes home! Around the age of 15 Sue was loaned Fleur, she has especially fond memories of this 9 year old 14.2hh thoroughbred. Fleur was a delight to be around and she is seen here effortlessly clearing a 1.5 metre fence.

Horse Experience

Sue successfully competed in Show Jumping & Cross Country as a junior rider. As an adult rider and by then living in Australia, Sue turned her hand to endurance riding. It became her passion. Wanderer, her pure bred Arab, loved having a job to do. They excelled in the sport.

Placement was always in the top three of each event. Sue's longest ride was 60 miles. She admits to being fortunate enough to have had a boyfriend who was of world class standard, who taught her how to feed and train an endurance horse.

Sue worked for the Parelli Program in Australia during the 90s and organised many clinics, events and study groups. On returning to the UK in 1999 Sue was integral in setting up the UK offices in Sussex, Cornwall and Devon, running the office and organising the teaching, touring and clinics for Pat and his instructors, she also was the manager at the Centre making sure that the 7 horses, all rescues, were getting the best attention. Sue passed her Level 1 & 2 in Parelli Natural Horsemanship in the early nineties.

Present & Future

Over the subsequent twelve years that Sue has been self-employed she has adapted and evolved and qualified herself in 3 healing modalities thus playing to her strengths as a healer as well as a teacher and this has really helped with being able to ‘feel’ and ‘see’ the often unfelt and unseen experiences that happen for humans and horses.

These days Sue has three main areas of focus which allows her to utilise these qualities both inherent and taught.

The first is by way of private consultation which is a 2 hour time frame to enable her to find out why the horse is acting out unwanted behaviour, you can find out more about this by visiting the consultation page on this website.

The second main area of my work is the introduction of the home study program. The theory based certificate course has been written to give horse owners way more information on how to understand their horse and how to bring about positive changes in the relationship. The second home study area is the in-hand and ridden practical side and has been especially designed for people already very experienced who would like to get further refinement coaching and who would like to become an A.E.B. Instructor.

The third area is in the teaching of Horse Agility. A brilliant way of getting to know yourself and your horse by learning how to correctly ‘approach’ the obstacles so as to gain or increase curiosity, confidence and trust whilst having fun.