(Newswire.net — June 28, 2013) Denver, CO — Award-winning Carolyn Corbett, founder and executive director of K9 c.a.r.e.s, trains advocate dogs to work with victims of violence. Through Caroline Corbett’s personal experience as a domestic abuse survivor she learned the healing power of dogs from her own golden retriever who accompanied her through the trauma of countless court hearings as well as the day by day process of emotional recovery. And after working with the victims of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 where two high school students shot and killed 12 students and one teacher, injured 24 additional students and three other people attempting to escape before the two perpetrators finally committed suicide.
Carolyn Corbett received the Columbine Police Service Ribbon and then began to develop K9 c.a.r.e.s. Since that time she has coordinated and developed numerous programs with law enforcement agencies including the Westminster Police Department and the Colorado 17th Judicial District in Adams County. In each instance she trains human victim advocates to team with canines to provide emotional support at the actual scene and through the recovery process. In each case, the dogs deliver non-verbal, unconditional love and acceptance in the universal language that is often the most effective immediately following a trauma.
This Denver therapy model of pairing trained humans with dogs has proven to be effective in many settings including hospitals, schools, shelters and literacy programs as well as on-site emergency crisis settings. Carolyn and her dogs are on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Donations to the non-profit K9 c.a.r.e.s. can be made at this website: http://www.k9cares.org/about_us/history.php
Canines are known to provide support, confidence, and unconditional love.These are the key elements in every emotional recovery process, according to psychotherapist Dr. Cynthia Nodland who also owns a canine and works in her private practice to provide support for victims of posttraumatic stress. She went on to say that often in the moments immediately following a trauma, people are disoriented to time, place and person and may even be unable to speak, making the non-verbal communication and steady, grounded presence of Denver therapy dogs all the more valuable in helping the victims to stabilize.
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Contact:
Cynthia Nodland, Ph.D.
2122 E. 13th Ave.Denver, CO 80206
phone: (303) 316-7370
email: dreamcatcher@denverdreamtherapy.com
By Gutchquena Mann, a freelance journalist, who can be found on Google +
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