Meet Our Team
Jayne Beebe, MSN
Jayne Beebe, MSN is a retired Associate Professor and worked at the Washington State University College of Nursing Yakima campus. She is the president and founder of Sprit of Hope, Equine Center for Life & Learning in Selah, WA where she works with children. Over the years she has held numerous mental health related certifications. This includes those that utilize horses, such as EAGALA, and has over 20 years of equine-assisted service experience with individuals of all ages and backgrounds.
Jayne led all Quiet Cadence equine-assisted workshops in 2023 at the Kittitas County Events Center.
This year she is piloting an equine-assisted team building programs for healthcare workers through Quiet Cadence beginning in May 2024 Ellensburg.
Nan Doolittle, LMHC
Nan is a dedicated lifelong practitioner and advocate of creative expression, social justice, civic engagement, learning, and teaching. She has a diverse work experience including working as a nurse in primary care and was on a Group Health Cooperative Code Team for nine years. She has also been a CPR instructor, home health and hospice nurse for Kittitas Valley Healthcare, co-created the Central Washington University Family Resource Center, and taught expressive arts and psychology classes at CWU.
Currently, Nan is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in the state of Washington. She has provided expressive arts workshops to a variety of populations including sexual abuse survivors and their parents, suicide survivors, and Latino students at CWU during the pandemic. In 2022, she founded Northwest Expressive Arts Response, a 501(c)(3), where she is the executive director. In 2023 she became EAGALA certified in equine psychotherapy. We look forward to our continued partnership with Nan and NEAR!
Julie Besel, LICSW
Julie has vast experience working with veterans and healthcare workers. She previously worked as a private therapist and has ties to Kittitas County. She is a wonderful individual with a passion for volunteering and caring for others in the community.
Julie attended the EAGALA training summer 2023 and looks forward to utilizing the EAGALA method through Quiet Cadence programs beginning summer 2024.
Chris Williams
Chris, a dedicated Personal Development Coach and Domestic Violence Recovery Coach, who founded Livin' the Visions Coaching in 2015, a platform committed to educating, empowering, and helping women envision the lives they desire. As a domestic violence survivor, she brings unwavering determination to her coaching practice, sharing her inspiring journey of healing and self-discovery with clients.
A multi-talented individual, Chris's coaching style integrates evidence-based techniques and personal experience. An Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, her impactful book offers guidance on personal development, empowerment, and domestic violence recovery. As a dynamic public speaker and women’s retreat host, Chris inspires audiences with her powerful message of hope, resilience, and personal growth.
Passionate about volunteering, Chris dedicates time to the One Love Foundation and Quiet Cadence. She is a staunch supporter of the impactful role equine partners play in mental health. Introduced to horses in 2020 she experienced firsthand their energy and healing, instantly falling in love with their therapeutic powers. This personal connection fuels her advocacy for integrating equine therapy into mental health services. With family members in healthcare and as first responders, Chris is passionate about ensuring readily available mental health services to support those dedicated to the well-being of others. Her commitment extends beyond personal experience, advocating for holistic approaches to mental wellness encompassing both human and equine connections.
Karen King
Karen King is a marriage and family counseling student who, in the past, has been a certified EAGALA equine specialist and worked in partnership with a mental health counselor to provide EAGALA sessions to clients. She is scheduled to renew her certification this year. Karen has over 20 years’ experience working with horses and is actively competing in 3 day events!
Ashley Jantzer
Ashley is an accomplished horsemanship instructor who believes in the importance of creating connected and confident partnerships with our horses. These types of partnerships are possible when we understand true horse behavior and honor how horses are designed to move, think, and live. The “type” of riding that someone wants to do does not matter as much to me as the foundation on which this type of partnership is built. Good horsemanship transcends specific disciplines, and we can achieve so much with our horses when we build a solid foundation. Ashley integrates philosophies from traditional horsemanship, classical dressage, anatomy and biomechanics to meet each horse where they are.
Professionally she has graduate studies in psychology. This allows her to see and meet people where they are. this improves her ability to assist in developing safe and connected relationships with clients and their horses.
Sussan Hussels
Sussan was born and raised in Germany before moving to the U.S. in 2008. Her background is in Economics and Applied Social Sciences. She is masters prepared from the University of Cologne from there she spent 10 years working in market research then focused on raising her two children. Horses came into her life in 2013. Initially learning the Parelli principles and has since broadened her horsemanship skills and now has been riding with Buck Brannaman since 2018.what started out as a hobby, a passion which then culminated in the founding of The Wooden Horse.
The Wooden Horse is a lesson and training barn nestled into the Eastern foothills of the Cascades in the beautiful Kittitas Valley. The Wooden Horse, we strives to help humans and horses to become better partners.
Susan is passionate about teaching people to become better partners to their equine companions. Susan focuses on the foundational horsemanship principles. This is the basic foundational relationship with our equine companions.
Kristen Jentges, ARNP
Has a passion for horses and mental health. She studied both psychology and nursing in college and has always wanted to blend her passion for human wellbeing with her love for horses.
Kristen helped found and supports Quiet Cadence mostly behind the scene. This year she is working with a new partner, Debriefing the Front Lines, to develop nursing continuing education classes that blend with horses for educational purposes.
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Lori Chandler
Voted “Ellensburg’s Best Adult Recreation” by the local community, Lori Chandler R.Y.T., has been teaching yoga in Ellensburg, Washington for over 20 years. Lori provides instruction in breathing techniques, meditation, and yoga, and using her extensive experience, takes extra care to make yoga work for everyone, regardless of their age or physical limitations.
Quiet Cadence Board of Directors
Kristen Jentges, ARNP
President of Quiet Cadence
Having worked in healthcare since 2007 in various capacities ranging from LPN to Nurse Practitioner. She has worked family medicine and urgent care in large and small health systems in Montana and Washington. Kristen currently works as a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner at Central Washington University and balances her career and family life in Kittitas County.
Over the past several years Kristen experienced and recognized burnout on an unprecedented level in healthcare during COVID. She too struggled to balance career, family, and her life passions. Over time, she recognized that she was not alone and set out to be a part of the healing process for her friends, peers, and coworkers in a new capacity. With that in mind Quiet Cadence was born!
Jenelle Johnson, MIT
Secretary of Quiet Cadence
Jenelle was inspired to help her good friend Kristen make her vision for Quiet Cadence a reality. She is overjoyed that QC is already helping community members in Kittitas County and thrilled that her horses can be a part of the program. Jenelle is a lifelong horse, nature, and animal lover. She is a mom to two high school daughters. Her career is in special education, initially teaching and now serving as an administrator with Dartmoor School, a small private school focused on individualized learning and 1:1 instruction.
Peter Buttler
Peter is a founding board member and the treasurer of Quiet Cadence. He has many years of corporate finance experience and has worked with several nonprofit organizations. He has two adult sons and two energetic dogs. He enjoys spending time with his family, keeping up on sports, and playing pickleball.
Daniel Jentges, ARNP
Dan began his career as a registered nurse in 2008 working in critical access hospitals in rural Idaho and Montana. He made the most of working in small hospitals by floating to nearly all departments, but spent most of his time in the emergency room and then later filling the house supervisor role. He returned to school to become a nurse practitioner and has since been providing onsite occupational medicine services in rural agricultural areas of Washington. He likes spending time with his family, being outdoors, and visiting the farm he grew up on.
Scott Rosenkranz
Scott Rosenkranz has many years experience in graphic design and marketing. He and his partner started their successful business venture of Rosenkranz Productions in Seattle, WA which is now based out of Whidbey Island, WA.
Scott is passionate about his family, fishing, and the outdoors.
Quiet Cadence in the Community
Quiet Cadence First Newspaper Article!
Quiet Cadence at the CWU Equestrian Team Show
Quiet Cadence First Newspaper Article!
First yoga classes were offered in partnership with Lori Chandler of Central Yoga at KVH!
Learn about Kristen and Quiet Cadence
Quiet Cadence at the CWU Equestrian Team Show
Quiet Cadence First Newspaper Article!
Quiet Cadence founder Kristen Jentges, ARNP was interviewed on 11/15/2023. She discussed the origin and vision for Quiet Cadence.
Quiet Cadence at the CWU Equestrian Team Show
Quiet Cadence at the CWU Equestrian Team Show
Quiet Cadence at the CWU Equestrian Team Show
Two of Quiet Cadence’s equine partners, Henri and Chester, participated at the Central Washington University Horse show on November 10-11, 2023.