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Focus on Catherine MERCIER

Updated: Sep 3, 2022

Catherine is 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐡é𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡, Clinical Psychologist and Trainer.


Her motto: Horse is a partner for better health and better life.


Catherine intervenes with horses in the penitentiary centers. Her high quality work participates in a better reintegration of the inmates. A report from France 3 Bretagne below.


Catherine is speaking at the Summit Mediating Horses, Healing Horses from December 14 to 16, 2022!

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The caresses of the shadows: how horses bring affection, comfort, self-esteem and self-confidence to long-sentence inmates of the Rennes Women's Prison, as part of their preparation for a release that they dread.

An extraordinary experience of animal mediation under the sign of the link and of the "inhuman sweetness".


A documentary by Danièle Alet co-produced by Aligal Production and France Télévisions with the support of the Adrienne & Pierre Sommer Foundation and the participation of the Centre National du cinéma et de l'image animée. To be seen on France 3 Bretagne on Thursday, May 26, 22.45.


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