About

For the past 26 years, Dana Butler-Moburg has been the executive director for the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center in San Juan Capistrano.

Dana brings an extensive background in non-profit management and administration to The Shea Center with an emphasis in community organization, development, communications, and board management. She spent seven years with the American Heart Association in Los Angeles during which time she received two national awards for her work in communications and marketing. Her work in the therapeutic equestrian field has been nationally recognized a number of times.

For Butler-Moburg, a fourth level dressage rider, coming to The Shea Center was the perfect combination of a personal love of horses and a professional love of the important services that non-profits provide to communities. She has also become one of only 18 equestrian instructors worldwide to be trained in the Balimo TM system to teach riding and The Shea Center is the first therapeutic equestrian program to apply these principles to their clients with special needs.

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Dana graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 then moved to Southern California where she and her husband Frank, a car designer for Acura, have made it their permanent home.

Janelle Robinson is a licensed physical therapist practicing since 1990. She has been at The Shea Center since 1999 and is responsible for all program services. She is an expert equestrian and combines her knowledge of horses with an extensive knowledge of pediatric, geriatric, orthopedic, acute, and neurological rehabilitation to treat clients of all ages and abilities. Her many certifications include Certified Clinical Instructor for the American Physical Therapy Association, American Hippotherapy Registered Therapist, Hippotherapy Clinical Specialist, Professional Association for Therapeutic Horsemanship International certified instructor, and one of only 18 worldwide graduates of the BalimoTM program specializing in the work of Professor Eckart Meyners, a German applied kinesiologist and early childhood development expert.