Dr. Jillian - Surf and Turf Therapy

Nature can be so incredibly healing. We've covered it in-depth on our blog. On this podcast, we take it one step further by exploring specific therapies that you may not know so much about and also involve nature: surfing and horseback riding (or hippo-therapy). Who better to guide us than Dr. Jillian of Surf and Turf Therapy, a California-based organization whose mission is in “bettering lives through non-traditional therapeutic activities?”Dr. Jillian has been an equestrian for over 25 years and a surfer for over a decade. She received her doctorate in physical therapy in 2014 and her Hippo-therapy Clinical Specialty in 2017. In her role, she doesn’t teach children how to surf and ride. It’s a clinical setting, rather, in which she and her team focus on improving daily life skills like walking, talking, postural alignment, and more.  Her goal is to help to improve the lives of exceptional children and to make non-traditional treatments like these accessible and known. Our conversation with her was enlightening! Enjoy.Support the show