The Board
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Jenny and Paul Foltz (shown here with TSD King Peppy)
We are owner's of the Saddle Doctor farm home of Breaking Free, located at 15150 Strooptown Rd. Timberville, VA 22853. Jenny grow up with horses having shown Saddlebreds before she met Paul. Together they have bred and trained horses using natural horsemanship. We are both trained Equine Specialist who enjoy working and sharing our horses with Veterans and other clients. We know how horses have been a positive influence in our lives and we love to see the interaction between horse and people when they are put together. There are 18 horses, 2 donkeys and a mule here on the farm who are ready to work with clients. |
Monica Johns
Is a certified EAGALA mental health specialist, has an extensive background working with children, teens, and families. She is a Parenting Coordinator Specialist working with high-conflict separating and divorcing families. She is also a Qualified Parent Educator and teaches a court ordered class for parents who are negotiating custody, visitation, and child support. |
Patricia (Trish) Gomez Lynch, LCSW
It feels like I have been a social worker all my life. I started by getting an AAS in mental health at Blue Ridge Community College in 1975. Ten years later I completed my bachelor's degree in psychology at Mary Baldwin University. I have been a licensed clinical social worker since 1997 after getting my MSSW from the University of Tennessee in 1989. I have worked in multiple mental health settings over the years including community mental health clinic, state psychiatric hospital and most recently eight and a half years at a VA clinic providing military veterans with individual and group counseling, psychosocial assessments and case management. I have been providing equine assisted therapy at Breaking Free since 2012 and I am currently certified by the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association. I retired in 2018 and continue to work part time at Breaking Free. |
Joseph G. Lynch, LCSW,
Is the Breaking Free board president. Joe retired in 2016 after 40 years of providing Clinical Social Work Services. He has served on many community and state boards, Joe chaired the board for First Step (Domestic Violence program), Citizens Against Sexual Assault, the Human Rights Committee for Harisonburg-Rockingham Community Services Board, and the Virginia Board of Social Workers. Work the Licensing Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Joe continues to be active in legislative activities advocating for the profession of social work and for the issues impacting clients of social workers. Joe served for 6 years with the Army National Guard in Maryland as an artillery radar operator. |
Spence White
Was born in Clarksburg, WV., and enlisted in the Marine corps after graduating high school in 1968. He served with the Combined Action Group (CAG) in Vietnam. Following this duty, he served with ECHO 2/7 in the I Corps area of South Vietnam, including the A Shau Valley and Que Son areas west of Quang Tri, Danang, and Hue. He served in a Marine Corps reserve unit and graduated Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio with a degree in Managerial Economics. He has been actively involved with Veteran Groups in Martinsburg, WV., and the VFW Post 9660, Chimney Rock near Broadway, VA. Working through the Rockingham County Extension Office, he became a Master Gardener, and work as a volunteer teaching various aspects of gardening to students in the Rockingham County School System and assists with other MG projects. He enjoys herb gardening, forest agriculture, time spent in the woods, target shooting, animals, politics and reading. He lives with his wife in the Singers Glen area and has 3 grown children and 5 grandchildren. |
Shelley Aley
Is an associate professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication at James Madison University. She teaches courses in composition and rhetoric and writing about science and technology. Her research interests include animal communication and the use of horses in equine assisted psychotherapy. She is an avid horse lover who lives in the Broadway, Virginia area on a little farm she calls Sunny Hill, after her 36-year-old horse, the late Sunny, pictured above. She has horses, dogs, cats, goats, chickens and two long-horned steers, named Bo and Crockett. |
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