Get to know our Instructors

We currently have a pool of 13 instructors, all of who are certified through North American Riding for the Handicapped Association.  One of our instructors is a “master” instructor, another is a Hippotherapy Clinical Specialist.

We asked our instructors the following 6 questions (their answers are below):

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

What Certifications & other background do you have?

How did you get into therapeutic riding?

Do you specialize in any area of therapeutic riding?

Do you have your own horses?

What do you do when you’re not at PPTRC?

Stefanie Brown

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC? 

In the Fall of 2007, I started teaching therapeutic riding classes at PPTRC. Before that, I taught at a facility in Parker for a couple of years.

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Sylvia Bryson

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

Three years ago, don’t remember the exact date but it was in the winter.

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Kristen Cox

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

Started volunteering in 2003 and became an instructor is 2009.

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Julie Farnham

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

I began volunteering at PPTRC in 2002 and went through the certification process to become an instructor in 2004.  I have been an instructor since June 2004.

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Susanne Hays

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

2004

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Andrea Hutchins

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

I began volunteering at PPTRC around November of 2006 and then began substituting as an instructor during the summer of 2007. Although my full-time position at UCCS rarely lets me teach for a full session, I enjoy substituting for the other instructors.

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Donna Maloney

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

I began when the program was still Acts 19:11, way back in 1993. Nancy Marshall had contacted Memorial Hospital Peds Rehab about starting a hippotherapy program, and I was interested and off we went.

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Nancy Beers (Marshall)

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC? 

I started in 1984 at Acts 19:11 as a horse leader. I took about a year off when my son was a baby, then returned. I worked with the summer youth program, became an instructor and eventually Program Coordinator. In 1995 I left to start The Equine Approach, a mental-health based equine program. I returned to part-time instructing here around 2003, and became Program Manager in 2007.

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Deb Sandy

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

Volunteer 2004

TRI 2005

HPOT 2008

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Susan Tucker

When did you begin volunteering and/or teaching at PPTRC?

I began volunteering at Acts 19:11 in 1983 and got my instructor certification at Cheff Center in 1985.

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