Henrika Jormfeldt from Sweden has lived together with horses since she got her first pony at her seventh anniversary in 1973. She graduated as a registered nurse specialising in psychiatric care in 1993 and defended her PhD thesis Dimensions of Health among Patients in Mental Health Services in 2007 at Lund University. Henrika Jormfeldt became a Professor of Nursing at Halmstad University in 2019.
She is the chief editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, chair of IFSAP Halmstad (the local association of persons with schizophrenia and other forms of psychoses). Henrika Jormfeldt runs a small firm offering equine-assisted therapy and activities for people with mental illness and conducts research on how horses can contribute to the treatment of mental illness.