Beginning her horse experiences at a young age in Pony Club, Kathy made her way through dressage, show jumping, breed showing, breezing thoroughbreds for the track, and then off to High School and Intercollegiate Rodeo. Throughout the horsemanship journey Kathy landed within her greatest love…. reining horses.

However, alongside horses lives a passion for holistic health. Instinctively and naturally, it made sense for Kathy to combine her greatest interests into one working career. After all, she was raised in a household that uses chiropractors, physical therapists, naturopaths and communicators for both people and animals, as common practice. Kathy was exposed to and took initiative to study varied modalities of alternative thought before pursuing to gain her own accreditations in equine health care.

Shortly after high school, Kathy obtained a degree in Agriculture Business, majoring in Finance. Not ready to be wowed by the ways of the office, and still passionate for alternative health therapies, Kathy furthered herself to study the likes of Touch for Health and Energy Medicines. Having successes with people there was still the passion for working more exclusively with horses so Kathy enrolled in the highly regarded, B.C. College of Equine Therapy. Appreciating the ‘whole body’ approach that the College educates, Kathy selectively integrated the information she’d incorporated throughout the years into her own unique expression for helping horses toward good physical and emotional care.

She continues to explore for more and better, looking at all non-traditional and perhaps previously untapped resources from cutting edge experts in their field. This study frequently crosses between animals and people. Interactions and a close rapport with chiropractors, physiotherapists and other experts in Sports Medicine has enabled Kathy to accelerate her Equine practice and find even more successes for her natural abilities in working with human athletes as well.

As an animal owner and trainer, Kathy understands that her work is not a substitute for qualified Veterinary care but is rather to be integrated as complementary to all medicine in general. She says, “Athletic clients have doctors, massage therapists, physical therapists and physiotherapists…. Animal care should not be regarded as different. The level of competition that these elite equine athletes compete at requires a full package. It’s my goal to maintain them at their peak, just as with human athletes."

With a growing clientele throughout North America, Kathy operates a mobile Equine Sports Therapy business, traveling from her home base of Alberta, to ensure on-site availability and accessibility for top performance horses. For her ‘two-legged clients’, as she calls them, Kathy recently opened a home practice in downtown Calgary, Alberta and works with various sports athletes including Professional Cowboys, Football players and ‘anyone else intrigued by increasing the integrity of their body and lifestyle’.

Kathy feels that giving back to community is just as, if not more important than, the work she does. Committed to supporting Junior Athletics, Pony Club, High School Rodeo and members of the Canadian Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Kathy works with students making her services available and affordable to them. Another passion for Kathy is volunteering and supporting such organizations as the Our Lady Queen of Peace Ranch Foundation (www.ourladyqueenofpeaceranch.com) in Bragg Creek, Alberta. ‘The Ranch provides great opportunities for personal growth within children who are physically, mentally, emotionally or financially challenged. I’ve had first hand experience with the excellent work the Foundation does and thus am committed to the continued support and success of it.”

Kathy and her Half-Arabian Reining Horse Bailey