If you’ve ever felt confused, overwhelmed, or discouraged by your horse’s behaviour, you are not alone. Many horses carry emotional wounds, past experiences, or unmet needs that show up as anxiety, reactivity, aggression, or “stubbornness.” And many owners are left wondering:

  • Why is my horse doing this?

  • What am I missing?

  • How do I help him without making things worse?

This course gives you the answers.


This Course Is For You If…

✓ You want to truly understand your horse—not just manage his behaviour
You’re ready to move beyond quick fixes and learn what your horse is really communicating.

✓ You care deeply about your horse’s emotional wellbeing
You want a relationship built on trust, clarity, and understanding, not pressure or force.

✓ You have a horse who seems anxious, shut down, reactive, or unpredictable
Whether he’s from a rescue situation, a troubled past, or simply struggling in his current environment, you want to support him the right way.

✓ You feel there’s something “under the surface” you can’t quite identify
And you want the tools to finally get to the root cause.

✓ You want to feel confident handling challenging moments
And know exactly how to support your horse when he spooks, bites, pushes, freezes, or shuts down.

If you resonate with any of these…
this course was created for you.

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Why This Course Matters

Many owners are taught a symptom-based approach:
Stop the biting.
Fix the rearing.
Correct the behaviour.

But behaviour is only the tip of the iceberg.
Underneath lies a world of emotion, learning patterns, unmet needs, past experiences, and subtle signals horses use to communicate distress.

When we don’t understand the root cause, the behaviour either returns—or gets worse.
When we do understand it, everything changes.

This course gives you the knowledge and tools to:

  • Understand why behaviours occur

  • Recognise emotional patterns before they escalate

  • Support your horse through stress and uncertainty

  • Build a relationship based on safety and trust

  • Create long-term, meaningful change—not temporary fixes

This is not just behaviour training.
It is horse-human relationship transformation.


What You Will Learn

✔️ How your horse’s emotions drive behaviour
✔️ How past experiences influence present reactions
✔️ How to identify the true cause behind “problem” behaviour
✔️ How to analyse management, training, and lifestyle factors
✔️ Practical, force-free strategies for handling challenging situations
✔️ The science of learning, motivation, and behaviour development
✔️ How to create a supportive plan tailored to your horse

This is the kind of knowledge that changes everything—
how you see your horse, how you respond to him, and how he responds to you.


Included With Your Course

📘 ‘Hopefully Positive’ E-Book
Your companion guide to ethical, science-backed behavioural support.

📋 Behavioural Challenges Checklist
A structured, easy-to-use tool to help you uncover core issues faster.

🎥 Clear, step-by-step lessons
Designed to be simple, practical, and actionable for all horse owners.

Imagine...

Imagine walking into a stressful situation and feeling calm, capable, and prepared—because you understand your horse and know exactly how to help. Imagine seeing your horse soften, trust, and choose connection because you’re finally addressing what he’s been trying to tell you. Imagine building a partnership where your horse feels safe enough to grow instead of just cope. This is the transformation this course creates.

What students are saying

  • "Very well explained and really useful for any person related to horses. The information and the way it's explained make this course very easy to understand for any person, even for those that aren't native speakers of English like me. I think there is a great source of knowledge if you are interested on understanding horses better and provide a good quality of life and training to them. Congratulations for this amazing course." - Mar Sevilla

  • "This is a well presented, informative course, I already have the Natural Animal Centres stage 1 in Equine Behaviour. This was more for CPD than anything else but I liked how the assigments were done - apart from having no feedback on scores. I only found out I passed the first assignment when the course let me into the next module. Well worth doing if you have a horse with challenging behaviour." - Gill Langridge

Course content

What you can expect in this course

    1. Welcome

    1. The Impact of lifestyle

    2. Introducing yourself as a friend

    3. Understanding your horse's emotions

    4. The anxious horse

    5. Emotional Labelling

    6. The aggressive horse

    7. Understanding body language

    8. When anxious turns aggressive

    9. Operant Conditioning

    1. Learning more about my horse

    2. Different triggers

    3. Trigger stacking

    4. Addressing triggers

    5. Classical Conditioning (part 1)

    6. Classical Conditioning (part 2)

    7. Discussing food anxiety and food aggression

    8. What to do when your horse spooks or bites

    9. Reinforcement of unwanted behaviours

    10. Extinction

    11. Why could problem behaviour return or get worse

    12. Quiz

    1. Analyzing lifestyle

    2. Analyzing history and past experiences

    3. Analyzing training part 1

    4. Analyzing training part 2

About this course

  • 26 lessons

Course created by...

Louisa Marais

Louisa always had a love for horses from a young age and later discovered a passion for rescue horses and equine rehabilitation after she adopted two rescue horses who struggled with behavioural and physiological problems. After helping her own horses heal emotionally and physically she set out on a mission to help others who were facing the same struggles. She gained qualifications in equine psychology, myofunctional therapy and equine nutrition, and studied under professionals and researchers to expand her knowledge further. Afterwards, she founded TrulyTrust Equine where she now specialises in holistic care and rehabilitation, including barefoot hoof rehabilitation and behavioural rehabilitation. She shares that her goal is to help create a vibrant and pain-free life for horses by approaching healing holistically, and through the process helping owners and horses build a true connection and partnership with each other.