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Visit the YouTube channels for CADI and Freestyle, and the Bear Spot Foundation! Saddle Mattress will donate $30 directly to the Bear Spot Foundation for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for each purchase of a Saddle Mattress from their website using the code "BSF" (plus FREE S/H!) From "The Boston Globe": "Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord’s Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy." Read more... Plan on joining us for 2010's CADI and Freestyle...Serious Fun! Learn more on the CADI and Freestyle websites, and . Bear Spot Freestyle is part of the SIGNATURE DRESSAGE SERIES alliance. Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who
seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the
seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing
quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds,
serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even
the most lost to feel at home in their presence. |
Meet Dr. Karol | Our Program | Meet the Horses | Case Studies Our Program
Equine assisted psychotherapy allows the treating professional to incorporate a variety of therapeutic approaches and models, each of which uses horses as co-therapists. Dr. Karol works one-on-one with her clients, in sessions that are often a mixture of talking, riding and horse care. The Foundation's treatment program for children and adolescents helps them to manage issues like:
The majority of the Foundation’s clients are referred to the program by their physicians or school counselors, or by other area mental health professionals. Currently, the program is limited in the number of new clients it can accept. Please contact us for more information about the Foundation, its program, and the needs of your child or adolescent. |