Rachel Parsons - Coach & Horses
EQUINE LEARNING & CONSCIOUS CONNECTION
SUPPORTING PEOPLE & HORSES TO FIND CONFIDENCE & JOY.
Inspiration + Education + Community
I coach using a mix of Natural Horsemanship, Conscious Leadership and Neuro-Linguistic Programming to support people and horses to move from crisis and chronic stress to harmony.
I’m here to help you rebuild your confidence, self-trust, calm and connection – in and out of the saddle.
Horses & Humans - Building Levels of Confidence
I provide coaching, clinics and online courses to help both horses and humans rebuild calm, confidence and connection — whether the challenge is anxiety, trauma, burnout or behaviour rooted in stress.
Through gentle, pragmatic horse training and powerful rider mindset coaching, we create safety first, then develop the skills and strategies that lead to long-term confidence, clarity and successful partnership.
I am not a clinical professional, my work is coaching and together we’ll help you build a new perspective, relationship and success strategies.
Over the last 12 months I’ve supported over 380 people to gain confidence skills.
100% say they would recommend our work.
Rider Mindset, Confidence & Life Coaching
Most riders come to me after a difficult period — sometimes horse-related, sometimes due to life. Anxiety, fear, panic attacks, overwhelm and/or loss of confidence can be triggered by a fall, a setback, or prolonged stress. As mammals, our nervous systems mirror each other, so when you’re not okay, your horse feels it instantly. Any underlying problems are likely to surface as new behaviours – because horses express stress as movement – not language.
Some clients are also navigating deeper challenges: trauma, domestic violence, chronic burnout, or long-lasting emotional dysregulation. My coaching focuses on building new management techniques, releasing body-held stress, reframing subconscious triggers, and building new patterns of calm, clarity and self-leadership.
If you are in a crisis phase — anxious, stressed, or low — I’ll help you find a safe, grounded baseline from which you can learn again. From here, we explore practical tools and long-term strategies for rebuilding confidence, performance and emotional resilience.
Rider mindset work happens online using dynamic, high-impact NLP interventions. These sessions are 1–2 hours of guided mindset work using metaphor, reframing, internal dialogue, and subconscious pattern shifting.
Transformation is absolutely possible — and 100% of my clients report that the work has been deeply helpful.
horse training & Rehabilitation
Most riders come to me after a difficult period — sometimes horse-related, sometimes due to life. Anxiety, fear, overwhelm or loss of confidence can be triggered by a fall, a setback, or prolonged stress. As mammals, our nervous systems mirror each other, so when you’re not okay, your horse feels it instantly.
I also work with people navigating deeper challenges: trauma, violence, chronic burnout, or long-lasting emotional dysregulation. My coaching focuses on releasing body-held stress, reframing subconscious triggers, and building new patterns of calm, clarity and self-leadership.
If you are in a crisis phase — anxious, stressed, or low — I’ll help you find a safe, grounded baseline from which you can learn again. From here, we explore practical tools and long-term strategies for rebuilding confidence, performance and emotional resilience.
Rider mindset work happens online using dynamic, high-impact NLP interventions.
These sessions are 1–2 hours of guided mindset work using metaphor, reframing, internal dialogue, and subconscious pattern shifting.
Transformation is absolutely possible — and 100% of my clients report that the work has been deeply helpful.
We teach 2 clinics per month. Each have the same format: half is classroom based and half outdoor in the arena. We have a wide range of horses & training stages; from starters, to problems and everything in between.
Change Frameworks: from crisis to confidence
As a coach I help my horse and human clients learn to learn better ways. We’ll cover these subjects and more – in the best order for you.
01. The big picture
Visioning, Reality, Balance & Time
Where are you now? And where do you want to go? Radical honesty, and a curious mindset are key for progress. By balancing big goals with small frequent actions everyone can build an upwards confidence spiral. I’ll help guide you and support your learning all the way. Let’s talk goal setting too.
02. HORSE TRAINING
"The 13 Principles of Training"
Warwick Schillers book is a hugely important development for global horse training. If you’re serious about horses, learn these universal Principles and transform your horsey-life. I’ll translate these into the everyday and signpost you to brilliant online training (not mine!) to keep you on a safe, happy path.
03.HORSE TRAINING
Practical Skills: Gaps, Tools + Rules
Knowing how horses learn; is vital. Rules like: 3-5x Repetition, the skills of Positive Reinforcement, Disengagement before Engagement, Shaping-Finesse etc… Fill your Skills Toolbox with Foundation, Groundwork & The Basics & Finesse. I’ll help you learn it all so you’re better with horses forever.
04.HORSE TRAInING
Feedback Skills: Calibrate &Adapt
Progress relies on your ability to accurately calibrate what your horse is telling you. If you can’t see trigger stacking, or fight/flight or “shutdown”, you are really vulnerable. Learn how to see, what to do to (both) stay safe physically and mentally. Move from surviving to thriving.
05.Confidence Skills
Know Your Brain; Spirals & Strategies.
I’ll teach you the to manage your brain. Know the natural process for survival systems, how to observe them, access them, and manage them. Learn about the Practical and Psychological Skills of self-support. I’ll teach you proven Leadership & NeuroScience techniques to pivot & get back on track fast.
06.Confidence Skills
Serious Play & Resilience mindset
What’s your “macro mindset”? Fear or Play? Coming at change and confidence with a “Serious Play” mindset will set you up for adaptation, resiliency & joy. You’ll learn a lighter and less stressful way forward. Consistent practice and reflective learning cycles will help you grow with calm confidence.
07.Confidence Skills
Be Your Captain; Self Improvement
Work on yourself away from your horse. Learn to be the best you in all your relationships to the human and equine species alike. Start by liking and loving you – mindfull, choice-full, actively managing your mindset, bodyset and energy.
08.Integration
Life Skills & Progressing
Horses are our mirrors. So often they reflect our deepest inner selves. Much of this work is about addressing who we are, so we can support our equine friends. I will help become a better, healthier, bolder and more visible you.
Horses get PTSD too - Birdy - "the crazy horse"
About Me
I’m Rachel.
I help people make their dreams (and their unicorns) come true!
Horse Sense
I believe horses are our mirrors. They are the “hairy psychologist” in our lives! Often humbling and sometimes very difficult, they are often the learning that we so deeply need but that can be hard to confront.
In my early 20’s I lived in the Australia High Country for 6 years; cattle mustering, colt-starting, wild horse catching – and learning new perspectives from old cowboys and progressive cowgirls! A steep learning curve! Back in the UK I collaborated with BHS Fellow, Joanna Day rehabilitating top event horses with “behavioural problems”. The ethics were depressing and I stopped working with horses for 20 years publicly.
People Sense
My human-focused learning journey began in 2002. I started a serious long-term study of the human behaviourial science; Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It is the study of how the brain works, how people communicate, and how to create highly effective, fast change interventions. I’ve practiced these methods across business, communities, and private clients for over 20 years.
Clinics & Sharing
My great friend Jo Lowes, worked with Monty Roberts, famously known as The Queen’s “Horse Whisperer” for many years. In 2024, after many interesting career and life experiences, Jo and I began teaching modern horsemanship clinics at her farm in West Wales. Now we blend our shared experiences in horsemanship and coaching to create transformational learning opportunities for people and horses.
In the first year, so far over 300 people have joined us on this learning journey and the project is growing.
We hope you can join us for these dynamic & friendly clinics sometime soon.
I’ve completely “lost” my confidence three times. Each time I had to rebuild it—but with practice, it gets easier and you get better and better at it!
Whilst we are not horses, we are all mammals—and our nervous systems and brain plasticity is remarkably similar.
Moving from stress to confidence is a skill - it can be taught and it can be learnt. The benefits from mastering your mind will flow over into all parts of your life. It's amazing to experience. I love to help people transform their lives, train their unicorn and find their way forwards again.
I teach both the practical horsemanship skills that help people guide their horses, and the techniques that allow horses to self-regulate and find balance in both brain and body.
Key info
Where are you and where do you work?
I’m based in the New Forest Hampshire. I teach in person in the South, South West and South Wales area of the UK.
My online clients need to fit a UK + 3 timezone.
Once a month I travel, via Bristol, to Camarthan, to work with Joanna Lowes and deliver clinics at Coetir Bach in Maesybont. The day before and the day after the clinic I give to teaching 121 clients on the way up and down the M4.
How much do you charge?
Call outs for groundwork, loading, handling, mounting block training, re-schooling, general lessons inc trick training etc are £70 p/hr with a reasonable travel charge added if needed.
Clinics are a really good cost effective option. Days are 10am – 4pm. Half in the large indoor classroom & half in the arena.
Spectate for £60 per day.
Come with your horse for £85.
For a list of clinics at Coetir Bach Farm in West Wales please click here.
Online coaching costs are:
£70 p/hr
7 Day Action on Anxiety Intervention is priced per hour. Circa £700-£800 total.
