Background

• Lifelong equestrian from the Chicago area.
• Successfully trained and competed in hunter seat equitation, hunters, jumpers, eventing, and dressage in the midwest, northeast, southeastern seaboard and Florida.
• Trained with Linda Zang, Pricilla Yantis, Celia Vornholt, Ewe Steiner, Jack Arts, Linda Smith, Linda Luster, Kathy Connelly, Heidi Erickson, Ellen Miller.
• Specialization in classical dressage and cross-discipline dressage.

Counseling and Coaching Experience

• Counseled athletes including hockey players, football players, wrestlers, runners, swimmers, and equestrians.
• Coached IEA and IHSA teams to individual and team national titles.
• Train private dressage and cross-discipline dressage clients.
• Counseled IHSA equestrian athletes.

Academic Experience

• Competed for Leelanau School Equestrian Team, Glen Arbor, Michigan
• Competed for Morven Park International Equestrian Institute, Leesburg, Virginia
• IEA Coach, Assistant Director of Riding, Trainer, and Instructor at McDonogh School, Baltimore, Maryland
• IHSA Coach, Trainer, and Instructor at Skidmore College Van Lennep Riding Center, Saratoga Springs, New York
• Professor of Equestrian Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

Professional Certification

• Certified Clinical Hypnotheraist (CCHt)
• Master Practitioner, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
• NLP Life Coach
• Equine Assisted Psychotherapy I & II
• Instructor's Certification, Morven Park International Equestrian Institute.