Suzanne Court, PhD, is a qualified equine assisted therapist and mental health practitioner with over 30 years' horse experience and ten years’ experience working professionally with horses in the mental healing and spiritual space. She teaches group and individual courses and gives lectures on Equine Assisted Therapy. She comes from a musical and academic background, having been a performing classical guitarist and a professor of music. She has published widely in historical musicology, and this book is her first regarding horses. She lives in Waikato, New Zealand.