Keep Your Horse Feeling Their Best
Unbridled Equine provides integrative healthcare solutions for your horse through proven, research-based massage techniques. Our approach is customized to the needs of each individual horse to help them take their performance to the next level, recover from fatigue or soreness, and sustain the longevity of a supple, soft, and working body.
Keep Your Horse Feeling Their Best
Unbridled Equine provides integrative healthcare for your horse through proven, research-based massage techniques. Our approach is customized to the needs of each individual horse to help them take their performance to the next level, recover from fatigue or soreness, and sustain the longevity of a supple, soft, and working body.
Top-Tier Care for All Horses
As an FEI Top-Tier Permitted Equine Therapist and an experienced competitive equestrian, my knowledge of equine wellness spans far beyond a textbook understanding of the physical tensions that horses experience.
I am dedicated to providing certified, professional treatment options available for any horse, and understand firsthand that keeping your horse at the top of their game requires a team of experienced professionals. I work closely with your team to provide solutions that are focused on the long-term success of your horse, and explores the correlation between a rider’s physical limitations and the horse’s ability to perform at their best.
Top-Tier Care for All Horses
As an FEI Top-Tier Permitted Equine Therapist and an experienced competitive equestrian, my knowledge of equine wellness spans far beyond a textbook understanding of the physical tensions that horses experience.
I am dedicated to providing certified, professional treatment options available for any horse, and understand firsthand that keeping your horse at the top of their game requires a team of experienced professionals. I work closely with your team to provide solutions that are focused on the long-term success of your horse, and explores the correlation between a rider's physical limitations and the horse's ability to perform at their best.
Benefits of Equine Massage
Your horse's physical and mental health and wellbeing are deeply connected, and they are unable to fully release many of their tension points without our assistance. Our proven research-based massage techniques provide us with the modalities that we need to help horses release those both physical and mental tension and also provide the following benefits to their overall health and wellness:
• Increased Blood Circulation
• Muscle Development and Recovery
• Lymph Fluid Movement
• Increased Mental Relaxation
• Helps the Body Eliminate Toxins
• Method of Nonverbal Communication
• Supports Healthy Immunity
Benefits of Equine Massage
Just like with our own bodies, your horse's physical and mental health and wellbeing are deeply connected. Whether physical or mental, many areas of tension that our horses experience stem from points in their bodies that they are unable to fully release without our assistance. Our proven research-based massage techniques provide us with the modalities that we need to help horses release those points and also provide the following benefits to their overall health and wellness:
• Muscle Development and Recovery
• Lymph Fluid Movement
• Increased Mental Relaxation
• Helps the Body Eliminate Toxins
• Method of Nonverbal Communication
• Supports Healthy Immunity
• Increased Blood Circulation
Certifications and Affiliates
Certified Animal Acupressure and Massage Therapist
Permitted Equine Therapist
Certified Practioner
Certifications and Affiliates
Certified Animal Acupressure and Massage Therapist
Permitted Equine Therapist
Certified Practioner
Get To Know Katie
My passion for horses began at the age of 10, and like most young horse-crazy girls, my dream was to have my very own. I drafted a detailed business proposal for my parents on PowerPoint explaining my commitment to taking care of my own horse. My detailed outline and unwavering determination resulted in a dream come true - Gigi, a 13 year old thoroughbred mare. Even as a young rider, I understood the importance of taking the best possible care of Gigi and valued working hard to afford the care, lessons, and competitions on my own. The joy that Gigi brought to me as a young rider was truly a gift that I never wanted to take for granted. As Gigi grew older, so did my commitment to keeping her healthy and comfortable in her later years by utilizing equine massage and chiropractic services. When it came time for Gigi to retire, I was fortunate to continue to care for her until she passed away at the age of 28.
I attended the University of Illinois where I studied Animal Science and rode all four years on their equestrian team. During my time at U of I and following graduation, I worked for the Brookfield Zoo working primarily with African mammals and reptiles. It was there that I learned intimately about animal husbandry, positive reinforcement training, and public education about conservation. Fueled by a passion for education and animals, I went back to school at Dominican University to receive my Master’s of Education. I then worked at the Lincoln Park Zoo in their education department where I ran the summer Conservation Camp and developed programs to help teachers and students utilize the zoo environment for informal learning.
During this time, I met and married my husband Greg. Prior to the birth of our two daughters, Quinn and Baylor, we purchased Oscar a Westphalian gelding. Together, Oscar and I competed on the Hunter Jumper circuit for 8 years. My dedication to keep him in peak condition as well as working through my own personal health setbacks with a herniated disk led me to explore the use of chiropractic, naprapathy, and massage as holistic healing modalities for both horse and human health.
This led to the formation of Unbridled Equine, a business focused on the use of integrative modalities to heal horses both physically and emotionally through proven, research based solutions. Today, Oscar is happily retired and loved by our entire family. I am continuing to enjoy the healing power of integrative medicine as an amateur rider competing in the jumper divisions and working with horses and riders nationwide take their performance to the next level.