When I get asked what I go to school for, I say "I go to school to ride horses, and to pick people's brains." Yes, I am a Psychology major and an Equine minor. Weird combination is it not? I was and still am have been fascinated with how people behave the way the do, in public, private, certain people, anyway it can change. Although I still get to ride and learn about horses. What I am going with this is, I want to be able to help people with the issues they have along with getting them therapy with riding and just being around horses.

My final career goal is to be able to work with teens who have eating disorders along with depression, anxiety, and bipolar, with other side effects that will go with it. While doing that I want to be able to have therapy sessions with horses, either riding or on ground. Horses have a clear sense of what a person is feeling or what could be going on within their brain; most people think that horses are very big, scary, and stupid. Okay, sometimes they are pretty stupid, but that is only because they are very curious animals. They will see or hear something, spook at it, then go to it and see what it actually is, and then spook again. It repeats, but they will not spook at some point. They are not bad animals, however. They actually are very loving and understanding of humans. I want to learn about the reasons the brain reacts the way it does while still being able to participate not only in a clinical setting, but also in a barn setting.

I have had some issues in my life, and horseback riding is something that helps me. It does not even have to be riding, I can just been in the barn and I will be okay with that. I want others to know that, although it does help, there is other types of therapy other than sitting with a counselor, talking and seeing a nod with some advice. This is the career that I truly want in my future. Although I do have to go to school longer than four years, it will pay off for me, and the future others I can hopefully help in the future.