ROURKE EQUINE WELLNESS
Healing Through Horses and Connection
Our Services
Services for Healing, Growth, and Connection
Equine Assisted Therapy
Equine Assisted Learning
Workshops and Leadership Development
Customized equine workshops and coaching for organizations, schools, teams, and community groups focused on leadership, communication, trust, emotional intelligence, workplace wellness, and team development.
Ground-based therapeutic experiences with Charm, Sky, and Cobalt that support self-awareness, emotional regulation, confidence, connection, resilience, and healing in a calm, nature-connected setting. Available for individuals, families, couples, and groups.
Ground-based learning experiences with horses designed to support self-awareness, confidence, communication, emotional regulation, leadership, and personal growth. Through guided activities and reflection, participants build practical skills in a calm, supportive, and nature-connected environment.
A Compassionate, Grounded Approach to Healing
At Rourke Equine Wellness, therapy is rooted in compassion, trust, and meaningful connection. We support each client with warmth and respect, walking alongside them as they build clarity, confidence, and emotional well-being with the horses. Through both in-office counselling and Equine Assisted Therapy, clients are invited into a safe, grounded space for healing, reflection, and personal growth.
Equine Assisted Therapy Rooted in Connection
We believe healing begins with safety, trust, and meaningful connection. Sandra combines trauma-informed counselling with nature-based, horse-assisted experiences to support emotional growth, self-awareness, confidence, and resilience. Through gentle guidance and ground-based interactions with the horses, clients are invited to explore challenges, build practical coping skills, and move toward lasting personal growth in a calm and supportive environment.
Charm
Lucky Charm is an 18-year-old Morgan–Welsh Pony cross with a bright spirit, gentle heart, and natural love for people. Smaller in size but full of confidence, Charm helps create a welcoming space where clients can build trust, self-awareness, resilience, and meaningful connections.
Meet Our Therapy Horses
Each of our horses brings a unique presence to the therapeutic process, offering a safe and grounded space for healing, connection, and growth.
Sky
Sky is a 25-year-old Off-the-Track Thoroughbred with a calm, steady, and deeply accepting presence. Kind, curious, and sensitive, Sky encourages clients to slow down, feel grounded, and explore emotional awareness, reflection, and personal growth in a safe and supportive way.
Cobalt
Cobalt is a 20-year-old Off-the-Track Thoroughbred and a gentle giant with a quiet, powerful presence. His patient and grounded nature helps clients feel safe, supported, and connected as they rediscover confidence, resilience, inner calm, and the strength found in gentleness.
Sandra Rourke
Julianna Cantwell
Sandra Rourke is a Registered Provisional Psychologist and a Certified Equine Therapy Practitioner who offers compassionate, trauma-informed counselling for children, youth, adults, couples, families, and groups. With a warm and grounded approach, Sandra supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, emotional regulation challenges, life transitions, and personal growth. Through both in-office counselling (Sherwood Park Area) and Equine Assisted Therapy at Sublime Stables near Devon, she creates a safe and supportive space for clients to build self-awareness, confidence, resilience, and meaningful connection.
Julianna Cantwell, a Certified Equine-Assisted Learning Coach, brings more than 30 years of experience in adult education/facilitation, curriculum development, instructional design, leadership training, human resources and executive coaching. She is passionate about transformative learning opportunities that empower others and enjoys creating meaningful human-horse experiences that foster connection, emotional intelligence and personal and professional growth.