12/04/2025
Allow me to reintroduce myself 👋🏻
Having relocated and finally found a rhythm after the mania of moving house, I want to reintroduce who I am and what I'm about... 🐎🐕
From an entirely un-animal centred family (with a mother who had an active phobia of dogs throughout my childhood!) I somehow sprang an obsession with all creatures great and small. At about age 7, we moved into a home next to a small stables, and from there my poor parents could no longer control how long I spent hanging about trying to spend as much time as possible around my main obsession... ponies! 🦄
Fast forward a few years, and I've come to the critical decision in a 17 year olds life - what to study at university. While all my A level subjects had geared me towards a business translation degree, I did a quick 180 and decided I wanted to pursue my passion, still riding every week throughout my high school years, I realised I wanted to do an equine degree!
My lack of a science A level was a bit of an issue, but a quick 'gap year' at Bishop Burton College to complete a level 3 equine course solved that problem. After that, I attended all the open days, I decided on the Royal Agricultural University for my degree in Equine Science and Business - those three years flew by and I was lucky enough to complete my work experience at the Blue Cross Horse Unit during my course, learning about the equine welfare industry and picking up invaluable knowledge about learning theory and the training of horses from the very first instance of their interaction with humans, which led to an employed position at the end of my degree. It was through seeing these horses and ponies begin to shine through their interaction with people that I wanted to explore what more we can do to help them and I found the McTimoney College of Chiropractic. After seeing how the treatments could transform animals behaviour and ongoing welfare, I applied immediately to undertake the Graduate Certificate in Animal Therapy which then led onto the Masters in Animal Manipulation. I am keen to continually keep learning and growing, which is why I also took the certificate in Advanced Animal Chiropractic to further expand my toolkit. 🎓✍🏻
Alongside the course, I was looking for a new challenge, which came in the form of my job at The Horse Trust, where I was also very lucky to be employed for several years. This allowed me to expand my knowledge of equine welfare, training & retraining of complex behavioural cases, animal welfare legislation and the training of our emergency services about equine behaviour to protect those people and horses involved in incidents around the country. I have been blessed to learn from some of the most knowledgeable people in that sphere throughout my career so far but the time came for me (and my little pooch Brian 🐶) to return closer to my family - and so here I am back in Leicestershire. 🏡
Now I am settled, I'm excited to get back to helping your pets feel on top form - get in touch to find out how we can work together to get the animals in your life living their best life! 📞📅
