Dawn Batti

Equine Professional and Certified Equine Guided Education Facilitator

Dawn has over 15 years’ of experience as a foster and adoptive mother caring for kids with challenges related to emotional disturbance and trauma, and many youth have found a home at her ranch. She also has over 25 years’ experience working and living with horses. She is passionately driven by the profound dynamics she continues to see unfold between horses and humans.

Kristin Erlec

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Kristin Erlec, LMFT, specializes in trauma, grief, and loss. She is trained at the Intensive Level of Natural Lifemanship – a Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Learning model and is currently working towards certification. Kristin is also certified in Brainspotting – a highly effective neuro-experiential/brain-body-based therapeutic technique and is trained in Therapeutic Nature-Based Interventions.

Kristin trusts in the healing power of our brains, minds, bodies and souls. She believes the healing process necessitates healthy authentic relationships and loving connections; connection to ourselves, other beings, and the space that holds us. She is passionate about the opportunity for us to experience this while partnering with other sentient beings such as horses and being in a beautiful natural setting. In addition to her private practice, Kristin serves two roles at Warrior’s Soul; as a Trauma Informed Equine Assisted Psychotherapist and as a Co-Facilitator in Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Learning.

Lacey Wise

Equine Professional, Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor (CADC II), & Certified Life Coach

Lacey is a co-facilitator of Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) services for Warrior’s Soul and has worked with horses most of her life. She learned early on that the barn was an escape from dysfunction at home – and that it was the one place she felt safe and understood.

Lacey is a Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor (CADC II), working in the treatment field for over six years including one year working at Folsom Women’s Prison as a counselor.  

 Lacey’s mission is to bring more EAL services to her community. Her focus is working with at-risk youth and their families because she understands, firsthand, the long-term effects of chaotic home setting. Lacey stands by the role of conventional therapy in treating trauma and addiction and also holds to the truth that it isn’t the only way. EAL services provide a safe environment for processing trauma, healing, and developing new and better coping skills for all that life has to offer. 

TJ Weiss

Equine Professional

Prior to joining the team at Warrior’s Soul, TJ volunteered with another local equine program while she was in high school and went on to get her Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science. She’s spent significant time developing her skills as a horse trainer and we’re very excited to have her support and expertise to further the work we do here at Warrior’s Soul.

TJ has a deep passion for equine therapy and has experienced the profound impact it can have on one’s life. She’s convicted that equine therapy is where she needs and wants to be and we’re grateful to join with her in this wonderful work.