Our Services

How are our services unique?

We can offer you a very individualised program to meet your specific needs and goals. When you are here, our focus is entirely on you, a one on one experiece in a homestead environment.

Yarraman Homestead is my home, it is my oasis of calm, I have worked hard to ensure that is a welcoming safe place to be, to learn, to heal, and to be empowered.

We also know that sometimes parents, siblings and carers need a window of fresh air to rejuvinate and to be heard. Yarraman Homestead can open that window for you.

Equine Assisted Counselling

$190/hr

One on one sessions with a qualified counsellor in an unmounted program which includes Cognitive Behavioural, Person Centred and Solution Focused Therapies combined with ground work activities with a therapy horse. Interactive activities with the horse are individualised to each client’s needs and goals.  These sessions aim to promote physical, occupational, emotional and personal  growth.  

Practioner: Melissa Yardley dip. couns.

Nature Based Counselling

$150/hr

One on one counselling set in the natural calm environment of the hobby farm.  Nature Based Counselling uses Cognitive Behavioural, Person Centred and Solution Focused therapies individualised to meet your needs and goals. We also have an indoor Counselling space. 

Practitioner: Melissa Yardley dip. couns.

Therapeutic Horse Riding

$85/30mins

$115/45mins

Recreational horse riding lessons adapted to each individual and their learning style. Long-term goals are riding skills and therapeutic benefits, such as improvements in physical strength, balance, coordination, mobility, self-confidence, self-control, peer interaction, and social skills. The skills are developed in a holistic and mindful way through learning about an intricate connection between the horse and the rider.

Coach: Maddie Wilson