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| OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF | |||
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CAROL RAE HANSEN, Ph.D, a Registered Level Instructor, is the founder and Director of Equine Therapy Associates.
She has owned, shown, and trained Quarter Horses, Arabians, Palominos, Morgans
and ponies for 40 years, and is a graduate of the 4-H Light Horse Project.
Dr. Hansen rides English and Western as well as drives horses and ponies.
She volunteered at the National Center for Therapeutic Riding for three years
before she took the Assistant Instructor course in l989-l990, which she passed
with Distinction. Dr. Hansen passed NARHA's 17-step process for the Registered
level Instructor's certification in l999. Dr. Hansen's strong background in
behavioral psychology, frustration and aggression theory, learned behavior
and motivation, as well as her strong interest in transferring data to long-term
memory infuse ETA's programming with more quantifiable results.
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom |
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Photo Credit: Carol Rae Hansen, 2008 All rights reserved |
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JULIETTE SEARIGHT EVANS is a NARHA Registered Level Instructor, a life-long horsewoman, and an Associate Instructor at ETA. Ms. Searight Evans grew up in England. She was an active member of the Avonvale Pony Club, and helped train and ride several native ponies under the guidance of her mother, a seasoned horsewoman, and her father, a Master of Beagles. Ms. Searight Evans has a solid understanding of the theory behind safety issues, grooming and tacking, body mechanics, the aides, leading/haltering/working with ponies,equine breeds, health and nutrition, equine first aide, stable and pasture management, and human/equine psychology. She is the mother of a young daughter in our program. Ms. Searight Evan's warm and welcoming personal manner, her professionalism, her concern for the welfare of children, families, and equines, and her gentle spirit epitomize the best of what we hope to always be NARHA's image to the public at large. A good horse and a good rider are |
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Photo Credit: Carol Rae Hansen, 2008 All rights reserved |
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Deb Wilson, of Lucky Star Ponies, offers the 30 animals on our farm quality care whenever ETA's staff cannot be resident on the farm. Deb and her husband farm in northern Montgomery County, and Deb breeds and trains ponies for sale and competition. Mrs. Wilson also assists Second Chance Wildlife in rehabilitation by fostering recovering animals and birds on their farm. She is retired from her first career, a quality control official with the federal government, evaluating the funding of programs offered to the mentally and physically challenged. Silence takes on a new quality when the only sound is that of regular and smooth hoof beats ... Bertrand LeClair |
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Photo Credit: Kerry Wilson, 2008 All rights reserved |
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Photo Credit: Chet and Amy Martin, 2008 All rights reserved |
Photo Credit: David Evans, 2008 All rights reserved |
