Meet the team

Strength & Learning Through Horses Staff

 
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    Rosie

    Joint CEO and Education Programme Director

    20 years professional experience training horses, specialising in horses with behavioural challenges. Rosie founded the educational arm of the charity in 2016 after noticing the profound life changes made by clients after learning to communicate with their horse in a different way.

    She also has corporate experience working in marketing & business development

  • Jemma

    Joint CEO and Therapy Programme Director

    Clinical Psychologist registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and has a further diploma in Systemic approaches to working with individuals, families and organisations. Jemma founded therapy services at SLTH in 2009 following her Doctoral Research on the positive impact of equine therapy on mental health service users in the UK and her experiences working as a CAMHS Clinical Psychologist within the NHS. Jemma is responsible for the delivery and management of therapeutic services at SLTH.

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    Laura

    Therapeutic Education Group Lead

    Child Psychology Diploma, Equine Facilitated Coaching Certificate, ILM Level 5 Coaching & Mentoring

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    Louise

    Fundraising and Community Engagmement Manager

    I’ve worked at SLTH for over seven years.

    Fundraising is vital to help keep our services running, and the Community Engagement role gets me out and about, meeting with schools and other organisations to tell them about our services and how our equine therapy and alternative education programmes make a big difference to young people’s lives.

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    Cate

    Programme Lead

    Diploma in Counselling Supervision, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapist, Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

    Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist with BACP

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    Jocelyn

    Equine Specialist and Programme Lead

    Performance Coach BHSI

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    Julia

    Equine Specialist

    Recommended Trainer for Intelligent Horsemanship, tutored on Intelligent Horsemanship courses for 25 yrs

  • Shona

    I am a Clinical Psychologist with significant experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and attachment difficulties. I work part time for SLTH alongside a clinical role within a Local Authority.

    I love the different characters of the horses at SLTH and the different things we can learn from all of them.

  • Gabrielle

    Hello, my name is Gabrielle. I have recently joined SLTH as the administrative assistant. I'm here to act as a go-between between the young people who we work with and the professionals here at SLTH, and help things to run smoothly by handling the administrative side of things. I'm always happy to help, so you can ask me anything and if I don't know the answer, I'll link you up with someone who does!

  • Emily

    Keits Level 2 Apprentice Groom 

    Qualifications: Level 3 animal management, FdSc Agriculture, BHS Stage 1 

    My role involves looking after the horses, the chickens, and the site. You may see me feeding the horses, mucking out the stables, looking after the fields and site. My role as the apprentice groom enables me to develop and learn new skills on how to look after and care for the horses on site 

    I have been around horses since I was a child and have taken part in Shetland racing and trick riding before studying animal management at college, where I caught the farming bug. I have taken part in lambing seasons, and I have worked on open and commercial farms.