PSA Register

The Athena Herd Foundation holds the first and only animal national based Accredited Practitioner Register to define a set of professional standards to support the delivery of Equine Facilitated Interactions (known as, for example, Equine Assisted Services, Learning, or Psychotherapy and Equine Facilitated Learning, Therapy, Counselling, Psychotherapy, or Hippotherapy – defined here) by improving the regulation and registration of Practitioners through the Athena® Herd Foundation Accredited Practitioner Register™ regulated in the UK by the Professional Standards Authority.

Equine Facilitated Training Programmes

The Athena Herd team has designed the unique stand alone externally accredited ACCPH Level 2 Certificate in Equine Facilitated Interactions (whether you are looking for “EAS”, “EAL”, “EFL” or “EFP”). This is a Foundation Certificate referred to as Module One. Most importantly, this can be taken as a seven week interactive distance learning option. Participants can also continue, after successful completion of Module One, with the externally accredited ACCPH Level 4 and Level 5 Equine Facilitated Practitioner Diploma, either on a fully or partially remote basis. As well as an externally accredited ACCPH Level 7 PG Cert.

The Athena® Herd Foundation CIC is a not for profit community interest company located in West Kent, UK. We offer the best possible learning and development experience in a unique location alongside special people and animals. Jennifer and Brent established Athena® Herd in 2014 and have developed a unique interactive learning and development centre bring track systems to the Equine Interaction and Equine Assisted Services space becoming the Athena Herd Foundation in 2021. Our programmes have been designed so that we can tailor our training to suit your needs so that you can attain accredited qualifications. Many of our training programmes are validated for CPD and CEUS by ACCPH and IACP