HunTherapy empowers Veterans and first responders to 'Hunt After Purpose' through transformative outdoor experiences that foster healing, camaraderie, and renewed meaning in life.

HunTherapy officially began in May 2022, with its inaugural deer hunt alongside a Navy Veteran, but its roots trace back to its founder’s childhood. In addition to his service-related moral injuries, Carter experienced adverse childhood experiences. Even as a young boy, he realized the healing properties of bike riding, exploring nature, and sports. Carter spent countless hours of his childhood riding hundreds of miles on his bike, exploring the natural world that his adventures led him to.

Once he discovered football, baseball, and basketball at age 5, competitive sports became another outlet for Carter to manage his trauma symptoms into high school and college, where he also picked up volleyball, playing even in his Army days. He enjoyed the camaraderie of team sports but was also drawn to moments of solitude, which offered a different type of healing experience. All sports provided a distraction from his external circumstances and intrusive trauma symptoms. Still, these activities were also a source of community and an outlet for finding meaning and purpose in his young life. 

When Carter found himself struggling to reintegrate into civilian life after suffering significant losses and moral injuries after his time as a 19D Cavalry Scout in the US Army, his return to outdoor recreational activities came naturally. Fitness, golf, big game archery hunting, and time spent in nature became staples in his life as he pursued meaning and purpose from his traumatic experiences. Carter has a massive heart for finding meaningful ways to companion alongside others who are struggling, helping them to find meaning in the madness that comes from trauma and moral injury. HunTherapy quickly became Carter’s personal life mission, as he sought to bring the benefits of various forms of outdoor recreational opportunities to suffering veterans.