A special message from Jane Karol, Founding Director of the Bear Spot Foundation.

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• $125 donation pays for one child's therapy session
• $250 donation pays for a horse's shoes each month

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Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds, serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even the most lost to feel at home in their presence.
—Jane Karol

The Bear Spot Foundation

Bear Spot Foundation offers a unique combination of traditional psychotherapy with dressage riding and horse care. The Foundation's programs have successfully addressed the needs of clients with most common childhood psychiatric presentations including but not limited to mood disorders (depression, bi-polar disorder), ADD/ADHD, anorexia, and concerns related to low self-esteem, separation and loss and anxiety disorders.

A 501(c) non-profit organization, we rely on donor funds to:

• • Provide low-cost or no-cost therapy to children in need
• • Support the needs of our rescue horses

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Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

A powerful and effective therapeutic approach, equine assisted psychotherapy harnesses the horse's ability to be both loving friend and patient teacher.

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Meet Dr. Karol

“Psychotherapist, dressage rider, trainer, instructor, competitor. The Foundation is the culmination of years of ongoing work and professional development by Jane Karol.

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Learn more about the Bear Spot Foundation

Please watch this a special message from Jane Karol, Founding Director of the Bear Spot Foundation, about the work and focus of the Foundation.