Kit Maxwell, M.Ed, MA, LPC, ECMF

Hi, I’m Kit — founder of Zenhorse®.

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I live in the greater St. Louis area with my family and a small herd of horses, alongside a few dogs and cats who keep life lively. After years of raising my children (now grown and launched), my work and daily life are centered at the ranch, where Zenhorse® has taken root.

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Zenhorse® was born from a deep calling to steward safe, nourishing spaces where mustangs and humans can journey together through healing, relationship, and restoration. As I came to know America’s mustangs — their intelligence, sensitivity, resilience, and the challenges they face — my commitment to their dignity, sovereignty, and protection became inseparable from my work with people. Today, Zenhorse® focuses on honoring and caring for mustangs while offering humans opportunities for healing through respectful, reciprocal relationship with the natural world.

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Like most people, I have lived through loss, challenge, and my own trauma history. Those lived experiences shape my work as much as my professional training. Over the years, the most meaningful and lasting change — for myself and for those I serve — has come through approaches that honor the wisdom of the body, the nervous system, and relationship itself. My work is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing®, coaching, meditation, and the profound, regulating presence of horses.

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At Zenhorse®, healing is not something done to someone — human or horse — but something that unfolds through presence, choice, and connection. There is nothing I value more than creating and protecting spaces where that kind of healing can occur, at a pace that honors each being’s journey.