Mental Health and Equine Therapy

- 5:26

with Shelly Pope-Whitlock of Shepard Meadows Therapeutic Riding Center

Posted

Nov 09, 2020

Society is beginning to view mental health in the same light as we have long viewed physical health. Shelly Whitlock-Pope explains how Shepard Meadows Therapeutic Riding Center's programs including equine-assisted psychotherapy has evolved during COVID.

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