Cat is a certified Faith-Based Equine-Assisted Philosophy facilitator and a professional horse specialist. Since childhood, she has ridden, taught, trained, bred, competed, and passionately loved horses. She has shown nationally in both western and dressage disciplines. Cat received her Bachelor of Arts degree and her Master of Arts degree in Communication from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. She is the founder of Life Participation Seminars. She is the author of To Dance With the Yellow Butterfly, a book which celebrates our dreams and aspirations and where they take us.

Cat has developed a program for Hope Ranch for Women combining her greatest passions: her love of The Lord, her love of the heart, and her undeniable connection to the heart of the horse where healing and peace can be found and embraced.