The Team
Sarah
Following a career in expeditions, storytelling and education Sarah changed her focus to mental health, after her own experiences with trauma and depression.
In recent years Sarah has created a healing, supportive nature-based offering.
Through her own chronic health conditions, Sarah understands the complex meandering nature of healing from both personal and professional perspectives.
Sarah trained in Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) in 2021 with LEAP. She is currently training as a psychotherapist with the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, after previous training at the BeeLeaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Terapia. Sarah is trauma-informed and works with somatic regulation as a foundation (i.e. our ability to regulate our emotions). Sarah works integratively, bringing in different techniques and theories at different times, according to the client’s in the moment needs and experience.
Outside of working with the donkeys, Sarah works with another herd in Wiltshire and
Sarah’s experience spans corporates, schools, mentoring and supporting vulnerable teens through adventure programs, support work in a residential trauma clinic and alongside autistic adults with high dependency needs. Sarah is openly part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
The Doodle Donks are a calm, friendly herd of four. They live out in the fields and come in to a dry stable in heavy weather or when the grass is too rich or too wet. Being desert animals originally, donkeys are not adapted to the rich pasture of the UK - nor their hooves adapted for the rain. When not working, the donkeys enjoy foraging in the fields, sunbathing and going for walks.
Doodles
The darkest of the Doodle Donks, with a nose that looks like it has been dipped in Guinness. Her hair goes curly in the rain.
Jimmy
Jimmy has the best mohawk. Likes to be the leader on walks.
Millie Mop
The fluffiest of the Doodle Donks. Likes sunbathing, dislikes baths.