Accredited Practitioner Register ™ (PSA)

The Athena® Herd Foundation established the Accredited Practitioner Register™ to define and promote professional standards that support the delivery of Equine Facilitated Interactions (known as, for example, Equine Assisted and/or Facilitated Learning, Therapy,  Counselling, Psychotherapy, or Hippotherapy – defined here) through independent regulation and the registration of individual practitioners.

The Register is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority in the UK under their accredited registers programme. Accredited Practitioners (PSA) will now be able to display the Accredited Registers Quality Mark; a clear sign that the Register and registrants meet the PSA’s Standards for Accredited Registers.

Accredited Registers give employers and patients, service users and the public confidence that practitioners have signed up to robust professional and ethical codes of practice. 

Objective

The objective of the Athena® Herd Foundation Accredited Practitioner Register™ is to:

• create and maintain professional ethics and standards that prioritise the health and wellbeing of clients and public and protects them from harm or injury;
• promote and maintain client confidence and public credibility in the benefits of Equine Facilitated Interactions and the delivery thereof;
• provide a clear definition of professional standards required to support the delivery of Equine Facilitated Interactions, and;
• maintain ongoing compliance with these standards by all Accredited Practitioners (PSA).

Accredited Practitioners (PSA) on the Register have:

• demonstrated that they have all of the above in place;
• equine health and wellbeing is at the heart of what they do; and
• submitted and maintain compliance with conditions of registration.

For more information please email [email protected]