Our Services
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Overview
Bustin' looseBreaking Free specializes in addressing veterans' needs, understanding that PTSD doesn't go away within a prescribed time-frame and that war-time service and experience changes a person forever. Through equine assisted therapies, Breaking Free creates a safe space for reflection and growth, encouraging a re-uniting of mind and body. Breaking Free recommends Military One. Information about a variety of support services for veterans:
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Horses helping familiesImprove family communication, gain confidence facing an important life transition, improve team-work within a non-profit organization, improve an office environment. Whether seeing better mental health as an individual or as a family, or better life working relationships with colleagues and co-workers, clients work with Breaking Free is ready to design a mental health experience with horses to meet the client's needs. For a referral form call Paul or Jenny Foltz at 540-896-8505 or email jfoltz.breakingfree@gmail.com.
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HOLD YOUR HORSES!Hold Your Horses! is for at-risk or court ordered teens. A team consisting of an equine specialist and a mental health specialist (and the horse!) works with each individual, adjusting the exercise and activities to accommodate the needs of that client. Hold Your Horses! focuses on cognitive-behavioral skills that are relevant when working with impulsive and aggressive youth. For a referral form call Paul or Jenny Foltz at 540-896-8505 or email jennyfoltz@breakingfreesaddledoctor.com.
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Mission
Breaking Free uses horses to help people. We use Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning by facilitating experiences between people and horses, This provide an effective means by which people can break free of those conditions which prevent them from reaching their potential in life, such as disappointment and disillusionment, discouragement, anger, misconception, and fear or anxiety.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT INFO
jfoltz.breakingfree@gmail.com
http://www.breakingfreetsd.org
About
Breaking Free offers Equine Assisted Counseling for veterans, families and court-ordered or at-risk teens.
Company Overview
Our Values:
1. We will always put the emotional and physical safety of our clients foremost.
2. We assure the highest standards for client confidentiality.
3. We continually evaluate the effectiveness of our service, and we will refer
clients to other services when this is in the best interest of clients.
Our mental health services are delivered by creating interactive experiences between clients and horses. Most Breaking Free activities are on the ground. A team consisting of a mental health specialist and a horse specialist design sessions with horses that draw upon the herd behavior of horses and their natural inquisitiveness and responsiveness to human emotions. The client sets the pace and the goals for a therapeutic course. Clients who want to learn horsemanship can do so as part of a continuing therapeutic process.
General Information
Breaking Free is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is located at The Saddle Doctor, a family owned business in Timberville, VA. Breaking Free horses are gentle, inquisitive partners in the therapeutic process. We use rescue horses and horses born and bred at The Saddle Doctor for Breaking Free.
Founding date
2010
Nonprofit Organization
Breaking Free uses horses to help people. We use Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning by facilitating experiences between people and horses, This provide an effective means by which people can break free of those conditions which prevent them from reaching their potential in life, such as disappointment and disillusionment, discouragement, anger, misconception, and fear or anxiety.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT INFO
jfoltz.breakingfree@gmail.com
http://www.breakingfreetsd.org
About
Breaking Free offers Equine Assisted Counseling for veterans, families and court-ordered or at-risk teens.
Company Overview
Our Values:
1. We will always put the emotional and physical safety of our clients foremost.
2. We assure the highest standards for client confidentiality.
3. We continually evaluate the effectiveness of our service, and we will refer
clients to other services when this is in the best interest of clients.
Our mental health services are delivered by creating interactive experiences between clients and horses. Most Breaking Free activities are on the ground. A team consisting of a mental health specialist and a horse specialist design sessions with horses that draw upon the herd behavior of horses and their natural inquisitiveness and responsiveness to human emotions. The client sets the pace and the goals for a therapeutic course. Clients who want to learn horsemanship can do so as part of a continuing therapeutic process.
General Information
Breaking Free is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is located at The Saddle Doctor, a family owned business in Timberville, VA. Breaking Free horses are gentle, inquisitive partners in the therapeutic process. We use rescue horses and horses born and bred at The Saddle Doctor for Breaking Free.
Founding date
2010
Nonprofit Organization