We’re a community-based, peer-led mental health charity, delivering life-changing results for clients, specialising in supporting women and girls impacted by trauma for whom traditional forms of therapy have been ineffective.
Specialising in equine therapy, our services are human-centred, holistic in their approach, and welcoming to individuals with a range of experiences and backgrounds. Operating in a non-clinical setting, and with a wholly lived-experience team of program facilitators, collapses the power imbalance that can be a barrier to trauma healing in more traditional therapeutic relationships.
We believe that financial disadvantage should never be a barrier to accessing mental health supports and so every program at the Sanctuary is available free of charge to those who need it to be. We are the only organisation in Australia to provide free equine therapy programs.