Anke Ebener - The Lead Instructor
President and Founder, Children’s Foundation for Equine Assisted Therapy, Inc.
Boca Raton, Florida
Anke Ebener received a Bachelors Degree in Equine Science in Germany where she taught riding lessons to children with special needs for over 15 years. After moving to the United States, she completed successfully the certification course in Applied Behavior Analysis (A.B.A.) and attended workshops from the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, Inc.
Anke specializes in servicing children with limited communication skills, which led her to creating her own Equine Assisted Communication Program, especially designed to motivate and encourage these children.
Numerous children with different degrees of language delays are successfully acquiring and increasing their communication skills with her guidance.
Jennifer P. Lewin, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist, Founder
Gold Coast Pediatric Therapy LLC
Boca Raton, Florida
An occupational therapist working in pediatrics since 2000, Jennifer Lewin Harris has worked with children with neurological, developmental, orthopedic, rheumatologic, and congenital disabilities in a variety of settings, including hospital-based, outpatient treatment centers, home-based, school-settings, hippotherapy and aquatic therapy.
Elizabeth Ossip, MSW, CSWI
Synergy A Place To Heal
Delray Beach, Florida
Elizabeth Ossip holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from Florida Atlantic University, with a focus on children and families, substance abuse/addictions, and geriatric social work. In addition, she is an LRT trained breath- work coach, with over twenty years of breath-work and Loving Relationships Training experience.
Virginia Wilson, Artist and Educational Instructor
Virginia Wilson Website
Coral Springs, Florida
Virginia Wilson has been an artist and instructor for the past 20 years. She has taken courses in color theory based on Rudolph Steiner and Goethe's philosophy of color used in Waldorf Schools. At the Hartford Art School, in Connecticut, she studied drawing and color, then moving to the N. Shore of Boston, she took workshops with well known artists, such as watercolorist, Dave Millard. While living in the Boston area, Virginia was the artist-in-residence at the Clark School, a private elementary school, where she taught silk painting to the students for several years.
