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Find your calm.
Reconnect with yourself.
Heal alongside nature and animals.

Peaceful Paddocks Wellness Services is a unique mental health and wellness service in Albany. We offer gentle, trauma-informed therapy experiences that support emotional wellbeing, personal growth, and nervous system regulation for children, teens and adults.

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Through equine-assisted therapy, canine-assisted therapy and nature-based therapy we create a space where you don’t have to “perform”, fix, or explain. You simply get to be met where you are.

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What Makes Peaceful Paddocks Different?

Because real healing happens when you feel safe, seen, and supported.

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At Peaceful Paddocks, everything we do is grounded in connection, compassion, and individual care. We offer trauma-informed, strengths-based therapy through equine and canine assisted programs, alongside nature-based outdoor sessions. Led by Suzanne, a qualified Social Worker (AASW registered), every session is uniquely tailored to you. Because your journey is your own.

Who We Support

Peaceful Paddocks supports people who are navigating:

  • Anxiety & emotional regulation

  • Neurodivergence (including ASD & ADHD)

  • Trauma & nervous system overwhelm

  • Low confidence & social challenges

  • Life transitions & burnout

 

You don’t need to have the right words.
You don’t need to be “ready”.
You just need to take the first step.

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Our Therapy Offerings

Each service is personalised and client-led, meaning sessions move at your pace, guided by what you need most.

Equine Assisted Therapy

Gentle, non-verbal therapy alongside a deeply intuitive horse to support emotional regulation, confidence, and self-awareness.

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Canine Assisted Therapy

Warm, connection-based therapy with our calm and grounding therapy dog to build confidence, communication, and emotional safety.

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Nature-Based Therapy

Therapeutic support immersed in the natural world, using movement, stillness, and sensory connection to support your nervous system and wellbeing.

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Meet Suzanne

Peaceful Paddocks was created by Suzanne Clarke-Smith, a Social Worker with over 17 years of experience in human services, foster care, parenting support, animal care, and therapeutic practice.

Her career has always been guided by one simple truth:

Healing happens through connection. With ourselves, with others, with animals, and with nature.

Suzanne works alongside her therapy dog, Fonzi, and her equine partner, MacGyver, to offer deeply grounding, non-judgemental therapeutic experiences.

“Suzie at Peaceful Paddocks is highly experienced and knowledgeable. My daughter has ASD/ADHD and equine therapy has improved my daughter’s ability to emotionally regulate as well as develop a deeper understanding of her own emotions and what she needs to self regulate. She is now better at being able to communicate these needs at home. Highly recommend."

You don’t have to walk this path alone.

Book a consultation and take your first gentle step forward.

Acknowledgement of Country

Peaceful Paddocks Wellness Services acknowledges, and pays respect to the past, present, and future Traditional Custodians, and Elders, of this nation, and the continuation of cultural, spiritual, and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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