Suzy Deurinck

Location: Bergen Op Zoom, The Netherlands
Lessons: I teach lessons at your horse’s place
Clinics: I teach clinics with horses and give theory seminars. My lessons and clinics are taught in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
Online: I offer online Coaching Calls and Video Reviews
Languages: I teach in Dutch or English

My Story

Hello 🙂 I am Suzy and I so happy to be a Connection Training Coach. I work fulltime with horses and horse owners to help them understand each other better. As an animal scientist, I love using the latest research and figuring out why horses act the way they do.

Reward based training is a life style and not just a trick I use with horses. My goal is to have everyone enjoying themself: both horse and human!

I have a 21 year old mare. She used to be very anxious and went easily into the shut-down mode. She has changed so much! I think I can summarize it by the change of her spirit animal: it used to be Eeyore and nowadays it is Tina Turner!

I work a lot with aggression, since that is a big issue in my area. My point of view is that you first have to show the horse you are his/her friend, before you even think about setting up rules. I love the moment the horse connects with the owner, and all the anxiety and stress disappear.

Another subject that I often see is loading. The interesting part about loading is, that you can so do much in training! I advice people to take smaller -but effective- steps and it works like a charm.

I wanted some coaching to learn more about training with positive reinforcement, and to improve my training technique, to receive expert feedback/suggestions on how to help my horses learn. Amazing to have expert feedback on how I trained, with my own horses. The distance aspect/filming training sessions was great as we could work at our own pace, and it fitted in really well with daily life. The training goals were achievable and flexible, depending on how the horse was learning – so there was no pressure and the training felt very supportive. Suzy’s approach was really friendly, supportive, caring, and insightful, providing thought-provoking perceptions and interesting feedback – receiving positive feedback was great too! She made some great book recommendations to improve further and to learn more about horse behaviour. I would recommend Suzy and I would like to work with her myself again in the future. She is a great Coach!

Aimee and Murphy and George