Horses Healing Heroes of the LV

Karen Buchanan comes to the Lehigh Valley by way of Kutztown University where she majored in Secondary Education and was a member of their Equestrian Team. She grew up in an Army household outside of Baltimore where she ate MREs for fun and prepared for Annual Training runs at o-dark-thirty with her dad, The General. She is a trained equine-therapy facilitator through the O.K. Corral Series of NV and the Executive Director of Horses Healing Heroes of the Lehigh Valley. Run out of Boots & Saddle Riding Club in Allentown, she serves Veterans, First Responders and their families with programs that use ground activities with the horses to learn re-circling skills and increase communication to overcome PTSD. She is the mother of two boys and teaches English in the BASD.  

Horses Healing Heroes of the Lehigh Valley is a charitable nonprofit organization committed to supporting the physical, mental, and emotional health of Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress, and their families, by providing equine-assisted therapy programs at Boots and Saddle Riding Club in Allentown, PA.