A nonprofit organization providing equine-facilitated learning experiences that support confidence, connection, and growth.
Many children and adults struggle to find spaces where they feel safe enough to slow down, reflect, and grow.
Traditional environments often prioritize performance, outcomes, or correction, leaving little room for genuine self-awareness and connection.
InterMission was created to offer a different kind of stage: one without an audience, without a script, and without the pressure to perform.
In partnership with horses, individuals are invited to explore communication, awareness, and resilience in a setting that feels grounded and supportive.
InterMission exists to provide accessible equine-facilitated learning experiences that promote emotional awareness, confidence, communication, and resilience in children, teens, and adults.
As a nonprofit organization, we are committed to expanding access through sliding scale pricing, scholarships, and community-based programming.
InterMission blends intentional facilitation with the natural responsiveness of horses. Sessions are ground-based and guided, allowing participants to engage at their own pace in a safe and structured environment.
We prioritize:
These guiding principles ensure that every program remains safe, responsible, and rooted in long-term impact.
InterMission is proud to be an LGBTQIA+ owned organization and welcomes people of all identities and backgrounds. We are committed to maintaining a safe, respectful environment where every person can show up as they are and feel supported in their journey.
Epala® Certified
Equine Facilitated Coaching
Each of our horses brings something different to your experience.
As you spend time with them, you may notice how they respond to your presence in real time, offering insight, reflection, and connection in simple but powerful ways.
Kari Beth Krieger founded InterMission from both personal experience and professional dedication to growth and healing.
She grew up on a wildlife refuge, learning early to care for injured animals and observe the natural world closely. While she felt deeply connected to animals, she struggled to feel that same sense of belonging among her peers. As a child, she longed for a horse of her own, believing instinctively that the connection would help her emotionally. That dream would not be fulfilled until decades later.
During college, Kari Beth began uncovering memories of childhood trauma and spent years working with various therapists and exploring different approaches to healing. Later, adopting her daughter from Russia deepened her understanding of attachment theory, therapeutic parenting, and the long-term impacts of early childhood trauma.
When Kari Beth and her daughter finally brought horses into their lives, she quickly recognized what she had sensed as a child: horses offer something unique. Their presence creates space. They meet people where they are. They respond honestly and without agenda.
What began as a dream became a calling. Kari Beth completed a 400-hour, year-long apprenticeship and earned an EPALA Equine Facilitated Coaching Certification to deepen her ability to guide this work responsibly and intentionally.
Many individuals, particularly children and those with PTSD or early trauma, struggle to put words to their feelings. Traditional talk-based approaches are not always the right fit. Kari Beth founded InterMission to allow horses to help fill that gap for people searching for peace.
At InterMission, she describes her role simply: she sets the stage. The horses do the rest.
InterMission operates from a working farm designed to support calm, intentional engagement with both people and animals.
The farm provides a quiet, open setting where clients can step away from the pressures of daily life and engage in meaningful, ground-based work with the horses.
Sessions take place outdoors whenever possible, allowing space for movement, reflection, and connection. The natural environment plays an active role in the experience, offering stillness and perspective that are often difficult to find elsewhere.
Every aspect of the setting is designed with safety and respect in mind, for participants and for the horses alike.
The environment sets the stage, but it is the horses who bring the work to life.
InterMission Horses is supported by a dedicated group of professionals, board members, and community partners who believe in creating accessible spaces for growth and healing.
Each of these horses made a meaningful impact on the people they worked with and continue to be remembered as part of the InterMission community.
Tia was our founding herd member and Kari Beth’s “heart horse”. She was a Peruvian mare, with a sensitive and inquisitive nature. Her favorite thing was having her chest and belly scratched, and she would even lift her back leg to let you really get everything itched correctly! She was a phenomenal teacher and will always be loved and missed.
Click through her gallery below to get to know her better.
