We aim to help riders prepare, perform and recover at the peak of their ability.

Jo is the innovative owner of Animal Therapeutics, which she founded in 2008 after she found a gap in the market for therapeutic products and advice for her own horses. Since then, Jo has strived to help riders, trainers, owners, and ultimately, horses perform at their best.

Jo’s interest in therapy products stemmed from her background in engineering and interest in holistic health care. It has developed further over the years as she’s had to deal with numerous soundness challenges with her own horses including stringhalt, kissing spines and hoof issues. While at times it has been heartbreaking it has allowed her to appreciate a huge variety of challenges that riders face and meant that she is always searching for products that will help horses.

Jo is a successful CEO of multiple businesses but she also runs a boutique horse agistment property and loves to spend as much time there as she can riding her dressage horses.

Carly has been with the Animal Therapeutics team since 2012.

With a passion for helping riders and teams reach their goals, Carly leads our Community of Consultants and Ambassadors and is passionate about building the well-being of performance horses across Australia and New Zealand. With ten years of experience in the Activo-Med range, water and dry treadmills, and all of our products, Carly can advise on the best approach to achieve peak performance and recovery. 

An E level Dressage judge, actively working on climbing the levels, as well as working her two horses Carly is actively involved in Dressage and is a self-confessed Dressage-nerd – and, loves talking to riders from all over the world. 

Paula is an ESNZ Development Coach who runs ‘Hippolite Equine’ located in Leeston Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. ‘Hippolite Equine’ is situated on 17 acres of land offering agistment with rehabilitation, schooling, arena hire, coaching and an online shop.

Paula has previously worked in most areas of Equestrian, starting in racing, moving on to breeding studs, show jumping yards, riding centres and equine nutrition. She has been an Activo-Med therapy user for nearly 6 years and has extensive knowledge of the system through her everyday use at ‘Hippolite Equine’.

Paula competes in dressage starting this year at Level 6 with her big Irish Hunter gelding and has two lovely young warmbloods coming along behind.

Jess is an accomplished rider as a 2 x Australian Champion Breakaway Roper and being a 10 x National Finalist Rodeo Qualifier. She is also an Equine Body Worker based in Gunnedah, NSW, and is always on the lookout for ways to help her achieve more therapeutic benefits which is why she incorporates several Animal Therapeutics products in both her own horse’s therapies and her clients and has done for several years! In her work, Jess incorporates massage, spinal and joint mobilisations, and PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field) therapy to help horses feel and perform their best.

Charlotte is from a farming family based in North Otago, New Zealand with a heavy involvement in NZ rodeo with herself a keen Barrel racer, Husband Team roping with their 3 kids all barrel racing and learning to breakaway rope. She also has also has a strong interest in Quarter Horse breeding and has been riding horses that her family have bred and trained.  “I have been an Activo-Med user for 4 years or more and I see the benefits it brings our team of horses. It helps with warm up and flexibility, and with the large miles we travel for competitions, our horses handle the travel very well and recover faster.”

Wil is a farrier based in Wellington and has been involved with Activo Med since HOY 2017. He has been hugely impressed with how useful it is in warming horses up pre competition, as well as in a maintenance routine for his cold backed TB.

In 2016, after working part time for local farriers for around two years, Wil attended Farrier School in the USA and graduated top of his Class at Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School. Since then, Wil has established a Farrier practise, servicing customers in Wellington, Wairarapa, and Kapiti Coast. Wil shoes for a range of disciplines, including Eventing, Dressage and Show jumping, Games ponies, Working Farm Horses, Cart Horses, and Hacking horses.