About the ranch
A Christian ranch in the Morrison foothills.
Heal hearts, restore lives, and rebuild futures through God, horses, and nature.
The story
Built from a lifelong dream of horses, and a calling to the people who serve.
Renewing Hope Ranch exists because Rebecca Winn wanted two things in the same life: horses, and a way to help. When she found equine-assisted psychotherapy, those two roads became one. The ranch was ready to launch in 2020. Then the world shut down, and the people who did not get a break, the nurses and teachers and clinicians and first responders, became the work.
We are a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit. We rescue horses. We hold days on the land for first responders, veterans, and helping professionals, free of charge to the people who come. We train other clinicians so this kind of care can travel farther than one ranch in the foothills.
Three charges
Mission, duty, and purpose
01
Give horses a forever home
The horses in our herd were given a forever home. They are rehabilitated, loved, and invited into work that lets them live with purpose.
02
Raise the standard of care
We train clinicians in equine-assisted psychotherapy so more people, in more rooms, can meet trauma with presence instead of protocol alone.
03
Heal the ones who serve
We hold space for first responders, veterans, and helping professionals, people whose work asks them to keep giving long after the well has run dry.
The people
Who holds the work
If I were a horse, I would be a Morgan: gentle, strong, and grounded.
Rebecca earned her Masters in Counseling from Colorado Christian University and her equine therapy certificate through the Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies. She is Level 2 trained through Natural Lifemanship and Level 1 through Equusoma.
Her work is shaped by trauma, the nervous system, and a lifelong dream of horses. She built Renewing Hope Ranch to serve the people who spend their lives serving everyone else: first responders, veterans, and helping professionals, and to give rescue horses a home with purpose.
The one who keeps the land, the machines, and the story in working order.
Ross is the other half of the ranch: the person who makes sure the place can hold the work. He tends the land, the equipment, and the way the ranch meets the world.
When a day of healing is happening in the pasture, it is because someone already fed, fixed, and prepared. That someone is often Ross.
If I were a horse, I would be a Quarter Horse: versatile, cooperative, and able to cover ground when it counts.
Brandy earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Indianapolis and has been in private practice since 2014. In 2022 she opened Journey Together Horse Ranch, working with women and mothers navigating relationship, trauma, and motherhood.
With Rebecca she built the ranch’s education programs so other clinicians can learn equine-assisted work with both rigor and felt sense. Horses, she says, do not pull her out of herself. They lead her back in.
Horses accept us based on who we are, not what we have done.
We believe you are here for a reason. Connection, health, and freedom from past pain are the things we work toward, with God, with the herd, and with the land.