The Staff at Medicine Horse

(Click on a name to learn more about our staff) 

Executive Director - Lynne Howarth

Program Development/EEL Instructor Trish Lemke, EAGALA Level I

Psychologist/EAP Director - Dr. Margaret Johnson-Gaddis, PhD., Advisor

Head Therapeutic Riding Instructor - Allison Klein, NARHA Advanced Level

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Lynne Howarth, Executive Director

Horses have been Lynne's passion for as long as she can remember, so pursuing a career that involved horses and humans was inevitable. Her introduction to equine assisted therapies was in 1987 at R.E.I.N.S. in San Marcos, California, where she volunteered her time as a therapeutic riding instructor.

Lynne joined Medicine Horse shortly after its beginnings at the end of year 2000, and worked her way throughout the years from Program Director to Executive Director. Lynne enjoys traveling and spending time with her two horses at her home in Mancos, CO.

Lynne says: "I like to think we are a family at Medicine Horse and feel thankful to be surrounded by our professional staff, volunteers and therapy horses, who give their all each and every day.

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Allison Klein, Head Therapeutic Riding Instructor

Allison Klein is a NARHA-Certified Advanced Instructor. She began riding and showing hunter/jumpers in central Pennsylvania.  When she moved to Durango, she was introduced to dressage as a working student at the Weaselskin Equestrian Center.

Allison began volunteering for therapeutic riding centers in 1992, at Horse Power Farm in Pennsylvania.  In 2000, Allison obtained her NARHA Instructor Certification at the Fran Joswick Center in San Juan Capistrano, California. 

Allison has been the Head Instructor with the Medicine Horse Center since it's inception in 2001.  When she's not at Medicine Horse, she teaches Special Education at Durango High School. Her hobbies include running, riding her bike, skiing and spending quality time with friends at her home in Durango, CO.