STAT LIGONIER THERAPEUTIC CENTER

STAT will continue to provide community programs that serve individuals with special needs, at risk youth, veterans, and alcohol/drug addiction. Our programs include unique and innovative therapeutic and educationally-based activities to enhance a person's abilities, invite learning, improve physical health and fitness, and enhance quality of life for the entire family.

STAT is now offering EAGALA – a Psychotherapy Treatment Model

STAT's EAGALA Team is a group of professionals incorporating horses to address mental health, personal development, and professional development needs.

Our Approach:
Trauma-informed * Client- centered * Strengths-Based * Solution Oriented

At Risk Youth, PTSD, Trauma, Addiction Recovery, Coaching, Restorative Retreats, and more.

STAT offers EAGALA, Hippotherapy and adaptive riding.

Please visit our website for more information. www.statinc.org

Our Mission – To facilitate alternative and animal assisted therapies to promote and enhance the health, education and quality of life for individuals with health challenges.

STAT's EAGALA Team:

Mandy Orvosh, MA, LPC, NCC, CCTP, has her Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and she is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and has been an EAGALA certified practitioner since 2009. Mandy focuses on Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and provides a space where clients can share their story and engage in an experiential learning process, using the EAGALA Model. Mandy is passionate about this experiential modality of mental health treatment which incorporates horses in a variety of activities to stimulate emotional growth and learning, with the belief that clients have the best solutions for themselves if given an opportunity to discover them.

Catherine Markosky, is an EAGALA certified Equine Specialist with 10 years of experience working in many different settings combining programming with teens/children and horses. Cat is also the Founder of STAT Inc., and the General Manager of the Ligonier Therapeutic Center. Catherine and her husband Michael together have built the Ligonier Therapeutic Center as a place of healing in Western PA, for all. We can customize your wellness, recovery, or therapy plan by utilizing our large network of professionals and interventions to build the right program, the right team, for your specific need.

Our team is growing and expanding. Charles McClanahan has 34+ years of experience serving at risk youth and people with drug and alcohol abuse/addiction in a therapeutic setting. He's trained in EAGALA, crisis management, is a National Certified Horse Trainer and is a PACTH certified instructor.

Alyssia Marshall-Stewart, OT, AHA Certified. Alyssia manages a group of OTs and PTs who are trained in Hippotherapy. STAT offers outpatient OT, PT and Speech. With a trained volunteer staff, we are able to offer our facility to licensed OTs, PTs and Speech therapists for a fee; to bring their patients to our Center for Hippotherapy.

STAT offers access to life-changing services in the great outdoors, natural settings, with horses, using alternative mind-body interventions -- to provide you with long-term solutions and recovery. Whether it be a physical or an emotional challenge... our programs are client centered and outcome focused.

STAT will be breaking ground in March 2019 on the Phase II project: a 120' x 208' indoor arena and clinic.

History:
STAT partnered with 8 equestrian centers that provided a variety of equine-assisted activities; including Hippotherapy, Therapeutic Riding, Riding for the Handicapped, EAL/EAP, for children with disabilities, for troubled, challenged, and at-risk teens, siblings of handicapped riders. STAT also started an Autism-Friendly Summer Camp in partnership with the Ligonier Camp & Conference Center. Now STAT owns and operates the Ligonier Therapeutic Center at 24 Stom Road, Ligonier.

STAT supported more than 200 families annually (more than 600 over past 8 years) with full scholarships to cover the cost of riding, camps, and a number of therapeutic activities. STAT has offered pull-in educational-based programs to coincide with equine therapy activities; i.e., we provide non-verbal riders with iPads and 1:1 Speech Pathology to train riders and parents to effectively utilize the iPad as a communication device. STAT supports our partners by offering capital improvements as needed, stipends for interns, program supplies. On occasion, STAT leads or collaborates related research projects.