Meet the Team

Emma has been working with young people in a variety of settings for almost 20 years. She doesn’t look old enough does she?! During that time she has provided foster care placements, worked within the local authority adolescent crisis intervention team within Childrens Social care.

Emma has lead a number of teams for Somerset County Council under the Children and Young People’s Directorate most recently the role of team leader for the Adolescent Support Worker teams in the 4 areas of Somerset, working alongside Young People their families and multi agency professionals supporting young people with a range of often multifaceted difficulties including, substance misuse, sexual health and relationships, ASB, Mental and emotional health, learning difficulties and child protection concerns with a primary focus on reducing the number of fixed term and permanent exclusions from education and preventing referrals to Pupil Referral Units.

Emma has owned her own horses for 12 years and has been using her team of horses to work with young people since her days as a PROMISE Mentor. She uses a variety of methods in her work with the horses, focussing on natural horsemanship techniques and understanding the psychology of horses communication to build a stong bond and trusting relationship them.

Emily is our resident artist. She is a Session Leader and incorporates her vast knowledge of horse husbandry and her love and talent of anything artistic and creative into her work here. Emily’s warm, calm and considered approach to everyone and everything around her ensure all are listened to and heard.

Chloe is one of our Session Keyworkers. She is dedicated to her work supporting  young people, her love of horses and passion to help young people see their own potential is evident in all of her sessions. Chloe holds a BA(hons)Business Studies degree and has previously worked in the PR and marketing industry.

Rachel Thresher supports Somerset Equus with policy writing and providing scrutiny, heading up a panel of professionals ensuring we are working to the highest standard.

Rachel holds a BA(Hons),MA(Merit)PgDip graduated from Liverpool John Moore’s University in July 2008 with a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts in Forensic and Criminal Psychology with Honours.

She continued her studies and graduated from Liverpool Hope University in July 2010 with a 2:1 Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Law with Merit and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming in Nov’12 from Bridgwater College.

Rachel has worked in a number of roles since then, including, Action for Children, Adolescent Support within Somerset County Council and latterly as Head of Year within a secondary school in Somerset.