Sabrina Walters
Sabrina graduated from George Fox University in 2004 with her Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. She began working at Youth Contact, Inc. (a non-profit youth and family counseling organization) based in Hillsboro, OR. During her time at Youth Contact, Sabrina worked closely with schools and other organizations in order to help young people and their families navigate difficult times, including school difficulties as well as issues with substance abuse and racial tensions. After four years with Youth Contact Sabrina became the Intervention/Prevention specialist at the International School of Beaverton (ISB). She served in many capacities during her time at ISB but found it most rewarding to work with students and families who were struggling with school anxiety or challenges they faced as they matriculated into our culture from a foreign culture. During her tenure at ISB Sabrina began her own private practice, serving youth, adults, couples, and families in Washington County.
In 2010 Sabrina decided to go full-time into private practice. During this period she also worked at Healthworks Northwest (currently Hazelden/Betty Ford Foundation) as the in-house family therapist and education director.
Sabrina was introduced to Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) upon visiting a client in residential treatment in New Mexico. She soon found herself in training through EAGALA and became fully certified in 2013 in this unique modality. She currently serves clients at the Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy Ranch one or two days a week; mixing the usefulness of EAP with talk therapy for a powerful, experience benefit to clients.
Currently, Sabrina is the founder of Core Values Counseling, LLC in Hillsboro where she sees clients, trains new therapists and offers training in the use of the Core Values Index and the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy. Sabrina became a Certified Gottman Therapist in 2017.
Rose Sullivan
Rose has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Wayne State University with an extensive psychology background. She has a specialty degree in Lactation Consulting from UCLA and is trilingual. In addition to English, she speaks fluent Spanish and German. She is Advanced Eagala certified and functions as an Equine Specialist for EAP/EAL purposes. Rose is currently working towards her advanced Eagala certification and would like to apply her Spanish to interpreting and facilitating EAP to the Latino community. She has been around horses for many years and has had many years of experience breaking and ground-training foals and young horses. She together with her Mental Health Specialists have facilitated EAP with at-risk youth, homeless women and clients with various mental health and human development issues.
Matthew Boylan
Matthew Boylan holds a Masters in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling at George Fox University. He is a therapist at Core Values Counseling, LLC in Hillsboro, OR. His background education is in Psychology and Sociology from Concordia University, Nebraska. He completed coursework with focuses being on EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), Restoration Therapy, and Child-Centered Play Therapy. He is developing expertise using Gottman Couples Counseling, the Core Values Index, and he is currently focused on developing an Intersubjective Approach to counseling. He believes that growth and deeper understanding are the purposes of counseling and that people live within systems that are full of strength to solve challenges. He believes that change affects others through relationships and that this is a fundamental aspect of understanding challenges and strengths.
Matthew has found a love for working at the farm, using the experiential model of therapy based on using horses as his co-therapists called EAGALA. He is a Certified EAGALA therapist and welcomes you to work with him and Equine Specialist at the farm. He runs groups for youth and adults as well as offers individual, couple and family session at the farm.
From a personal perspective, he has been married for four years and has a wonderful dog and cat. He is an avid trail runner and is currently training for an ultramarathon. He grew up as a missionary kid and has lived in several countries around the world.
Katie Sullivan
Katie lives at Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy farm. She holds a Bachelor Degree from Seattle University and is a Certified EAGALA Equine Specialist. Katie serves our Equine Assisted Therapy or Corporate clients as a Certified Equine Specialist. She has completed rigorous training in the important role an Equine Specialist plays when we work with clients in this experiential form of therapy.
Katie also works with corporate groups leading many different experiential growth and learning opportunities. She is obviously a lover of all animals and looks forward to assisting in your personal development work at the farm.