Join our capital campaign and help us build a roadmap for the future.
43 million people in the U.S. are living with mental health conditions, and 14 million experience post-traumatic stress each year. Yet 56% of adults and 76% of youth receive insufficient treatment or none at all.

​— Mental Health America (2018)
DISCOVER HORSES THAT HEAL
Gateway HorseWorks delivers a revolutionary approach to mental health, trauma, and addiction treatment to champion recovery and transform lives. We are pioneers, transcending the limits of talk therapy to help people overcome their struggles through the healing power of horses. Every day we serve survivors of trauma, justice-involved youth and adults, veterans with post-traumatic stress, as well as those facing addiction or experiencing anxiety, depression, and grief. We aspire to overcome barriers of mental health oppression, poverty, class, and race to make equine-assisted psychotherapy accessible to all populations, and to rebuild human connections and pathways to sustainable recovery.
PROVIDE RECOVERY FOR ALL
We will incorporate horses for the mental health treatment of those most in need, build strong partnerships with like-minded organizations, and expand our current programming to heal, grow, and sustain communities, individuals, and families recovering from mental health conditions, trauma, grief, addiction, oppression, and abuse. We believe accessibility to mental health care should not be based upon the ability to pay. We will offer greater financial assistance to ensure all individuals and families get the help they need, and will continue to support the ongoing, impactful work of our community partners through our existing groundbreaking programs.
BUILD A DEDICATED TREATMENT CENTER
We will purchase our own farm property and build the Gateway HorseWorks Center, a state-of-the-art, environmentally sustainable indoor arena to enable year-round programming. With a permanent structure, we can increase capacity to accommodate larger groups, expand programming, run consecutive sessions, and offer multiple, private meeting rooms for post-session debriefs. We will increase our herd by rescuing more horses and provide them with optimal living conditions and medical care. At our new Center, participants and horses alike will have a safe place to belong and call home.
BLAZE NEW TRAILS
We aim to not just make a difference in our own community, but to tackle systemic mental health oppression nationally in collaboration with government agencies, community organizations, and centers for mental health. We will add to the growing research supporting the success of equine-assisted psychotherapy, and partner with universities to collect data and analyze program outcomes. We envision a replicable and scalable model to deliver treatment in innovative ways, across diverse populations, including pre-release prisoners, veterans, and human trafficking survivors.
TOGETHER LEAD THE WAY
Our capital campaign is our roadmap for the future. Your support is needed now more than ever to help us build a permanent Center and deliver our vision to provide year-round programming to more at-risk populations. Together we can rebuild connections, offer hope, and lead the way to healing, growth, and transformation in our communities.
Photography credited to Richard Meade and Penny Hansen