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Reining Hope Counseling Services, LLC, at Sunset Hills Farm, LLC


Welcome to Reining Hope!

Reining Hope Counseling Services, LLC provides in-office, telehealth, and farm-based counseling services for children, adolescents, adults, and families across Orleans, Caledonia and Essex counties.

At Reining Hope you will experience compassion, understanding, and unconditional positive regard. Your needs, dreams, and goals will be thoughtfully, gently, and carefully attended to. Here at Reining Hope you will find a place that prides itself on crafting unique experiences for every individual who comes to the farm – services that extend past the traditional four-walls of an office.


Therapy at the Farm


“Animals and the farm have been the key to unlocking my holistic, outside-of-the-box approach to working with individuals, children, and families with emotional, psychosocial, behavioral, relational, mental health challenges, and trauma.” – Kristin Mason, MA, LCMHC, MSW



Book an Appointment


To book an appointment, call 802-487-4156 (cell) or 802- 895-9166 (barn) or use the form below.

PLEASE NOTE: Effective 6/15/2026, RHCS/Kristin is on sabbatical and will not be accepting clients for counseling services until further notice. If you are interested in our Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship Programs, Youth Summer Camps, Afterschool Programs, and/or the Reining Hope Youth Equestrian Club Program (ages 10 – 14 years), you may call the barn number to leave a message and complete the information below.

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“I have nothing but praise for Reining Hope and Kristin. I have observed her working with children suffering from trauma. She is insightful, compassionate, focused, and has the ability to determine what the child needs without explanation. Reining Hope and Kristin made a huge difference in my granddaughter’s life. My granddaughter needed the opportunity to work with horses and needed to make a connection with someone who had an understanding of what she experienced at a young age.”

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