Kerry Borcherding, MA

Throughout my life I have had a profound love for spending time in the wilderness and in the company of horses. I grew up surrounded by both. Once I left home, I continued my lifelong relationship with them by working for camps and ranches around Colorado. Horses have always supported, nurtured and continually challenged me to be authentic and present. Over and over, I have personally experienced the healing power inherent in them, and because of this, I am passionate and committed to bringing horses and humans into relationship.

I am currently an Equine Assisted Psychotherapist (EAP) in private practice in and around Boulder, Colorado. I lead trips for the Women’s Wilderness Institute and teach Yoga with Horses workshops. Prior to that, I worked as a field psychotherapist at Monarch Center and as a mentor for teenage females at Vive. Before moving to Boulder, I served as the Assistant Director of Assistance Dogs of the West, a non-profit for whom I trained dogs for people with physical disabilities and taught learning disabled and at-risk youth to train service dogs.

I earned a Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University, am a certified Gestalt Equine Assisted Psychotherapist from the Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies and am working towards becoming a certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner from the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.