Executive Director: Alyssa Aubrey, CEGE, is a certified equine-guided educator and co-founder of the Equine Guided Education Association. She is the Founder and Program Director of Medicine Horse Ranch, a center for Equine Guided Education located in Tomales, California.

Prior to establishing Medicine Horse Ranch, she worked as a court-appointed advocate for teens receiving social services. Aubrey is an expert horsewoman known nationally and internationally for her expertise in the partnering of horses for transformational human learning.

Alyssa created Horse Sense as a meaningful way to encourage positive change for humans. Her offer incorporates both EGE and personal development classes at Medicine Horse Ranch, where she lives. Her horse partners are important teachers and guides into a process leading people to greater self-awareness and personal growth.

Alyssa serves on the Board of Directors for the Novato Horsemen Inc, and is the NHI co-chairperson for Halleck Creek therapeutic riding program.

Alyssa’s clientele includes; The Novato Youth Center (pregnancy prevention program), The Braun School, Home Away from Homelessness, Alta Mira Recovery Center, Girl Scouts of America and Circle of Sisters (after school violence prevention program) and the Buckelew Foundation.

Medicine Horse Ranch is also a retirement home for horses and extends internships for at-risk teens to provide care for elderly equines.

Graduating with honors, she received a Masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco, and went on to earn two doctoral degrees.

Her certifications include EMDR Levels 1 and 2, and intermediate and advanced hypnotherapy. Karina will be obtaining EGALA Levels 1 and 2 certification in early 2008.

Affiliations include the Marin Medical Emergency Corps and the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Team. Dr. Middendorf is a former board member of NCADA (the National Council of Alcohol and Other Drug Additions).

A lifelong horsewoman, Karina is keenly aware of the healing power of horses. She believes the combination of therapy and Equine Guided Education is a powerful and effective modality and has an incredible impact on individuals, youth at risk and families. Visit my website at www.kvonmiddendorf.com

Sheila Whitescarver received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Sonoma State University, and her Master of Arts in Economics from University of California at Santa Barbara. After graduating, she moved to rural Colorado to a hay and cattle ranch in the Rocky Mountains, then later to the high desert plains of Durango, before coming back home to Northern California. She has worked in a variety of positions including sales and marketing in real estate, marketing professional services for a corporate law firm, serving as a senior manager for a private educational institution, and teaching business and economics in the California Community College system. Her volunteer activities have been just as wide-ranging including work in fundraising and teaching skiing for the Adaptive Sports Association in Durango, Colorado. Sheila was instinctively drawn to Medicine Horse Ranch to serve, to be a part of the healing, spiritual growth and lessons in self-awareness that are offered through horses, nature, and Alyssa’s guidance in the programs she developed in Equine Guided Education.