Therapeutic/Adaptive Horsemanship Program
Talisman equine-assisted therapeutic activities serve people of most ages with cognitive, physical, emotional, and social challenges and disabilities. These lessons are guided by one of Talisman’s Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructors (CTRI) and incorporate individual lesson plans for client specific goals.
Therapeutic/Adaptive Lesson Program
The Talisman Therapeutic/Adaptive Horsemanship Program supports opportunities for building confidence, growing self-esteem, improving physical strength, reinforcing responsible behaviors, enhancing communication, and developing new skills.
- Participants are welcomed to Talisman programs through an individual in-take and assessment process
- Individualized lesson plans are developed to address the goals of each participant.
- Participants work with a CTRI to perform mounted and unmounted work, on or around the horse during weekly lessons.
- Participants build skills that support independence and life outside of the arena.
Program cost: $90/per participant, per lesson (2025) Therapeutic Carriage Driving
As part of the Therapeutic/Adaptive Horsemanship Program, Therapeutic Carriage Driving offers participants with physical, mental, sensory, or emotional disabilities the rewards of partnership with an equine while driving from a carriage seat, or in a carriage modified to accommodate their wheelchair. These one-hour lessons are taught by a Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship, International (PATH) Driving Instructor, certified to deliver education in the highest standards of safety, ethics, and effectiveness in this specialty discipline.
Program cost: $125 per lesson
Therapeutic/Adaptive Horsemanship and Therapeutic Carriage Driving Assessment
Every new therapeutic horsemanship client begins with an individual assessment. CTRIs spend time with each new client to familiarize them with the Talisman farm and equine-assisted therapeutic activities. This time is also spent gaining better insight on the specific challenges of the individual and goals of that person.
Assessment cost: $95/per participant (2025)
Hippotherapy
Hippotherapy is a form of physical, occupational, and speech-language pathology in which licensed therapists work with riding instructors to use the movements of a horse to provide carefully graded motor and sensory input.
Programming: Talisman does not have a dedicated medical or mental health provider on staff. Therefore, therapists are contracted to provide Hippotherapy services as requested. Individual appointments are required to discuss contractual agreements and skill assessments.
Program Cost: Contract dependent (2025)
