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Austin Center for Sexual Medicine
1101 S Capital of Texas Hwy Bldg A-200
Austin, Texas 78746
(512) 327-3723
  shelley rosenberg
 
Epona Approved Instructor
Ranch Manager Epona Center
USDF "L" Graduate
 
In nearly 30 years of work with horses, Shelley Rosenberg's experience has spanned the worlds of professional dressage trainer and competitor (long-list rider candidate for the U.S. Olympic equestrian team, Grand Prix-level United States Dressage Federation competitor with bronze and silver medals), USDF 'L' judge, breeder, and horse rehabilitator. As a survivor of sexual abuse who owes much of her recovery to her work with and through horses, Shelley believes in the strength of the horse to assist the human in his or her emotional work to a place of clarity and truth. At Sierra Tucson in the late 1980s with Wyatt Webb and Barbara Rector, Shelley helped initiate the Adolescent Care Program for troubled and abused teens to work with horses and find a way back to emotional balance.
   
   
 


Her rehabilitative work with rescued and abused horses at her own facility in Oro Valley, Arizona brought her to the attention of Linda Kohanov, whose Epona Center for equine-experiential therapies grows in world reknown. Shelley now resides in Sonoita, Arizona where as Ranch Manager for Epona, and an Epona Approved Instructor, she tends to the emotional and physical well-being of the therapy horses, and collaborates closely with the apprentices, therapists, and Ms. Kohanov on the center's programs. A gifted story-teller and animal handler, Shelley uses her own background, experience, and skill to assist her clients--on or off the horse--in finding the way to their own emotional healing through interactions with the horse as a being that is true to its own emotions and responses.