Meet Our Team

Bree Thompson was born in Colorado and has always loved horses. As a child her very best friend was her horse; she would tell him all her secrets she couldn’t tell anyone else. From a very early age she knew horses were very special and extremely healing. She grew up and ended up getting a full scholarship to Occidental College and moving to Los Angeles where she acquired a BA in Psychology. Bree remained in Los Angeles for 20 years building a health and wellness business. She is a certified personal trainer, pilates, yoga and meditation instructor as well as many many other things to help people achieve the best versions of themselves. In 2018 she moved back to Colorado with her six month old daughter. Soon after that her daughter had a life threatening seizure that ended her up in the hospital intubated and in a coma. After a lot of tests she learned that her daughter Solvi has a very rare genetic condition which causes not only seizures but global delays, feeding complications amongst many other ailments. There currently isn’t a cure for Solvi’s condition. What does help is therapies; speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and Hippotherapy (which is riding a horse to gain core strength and gait). Most kids with Solvi’s condition are fed with feeding tubes and can not sit up unassisted. Everything in Bree’s life changed with Solvi’s diagnosis. She immediately started searching and getting Solvi set up in all the therapies, except every hippotherapy operation had over a year long waitlist. Bree did not want to wait and she missed having horses in her life so she decided to go get one and start the Hippotherapy on her own. She wanted to help a horse in need as well as Solvi so she started looking for horses that needed help. She ended up at one of the worst places on earth; a notorious Colorado kill pen where horses are kept before before being funneled south to Mexico for slaughter. That day she left with not one horse but two and that was the beginning of Wild Hearts Haven but she didn’t know that yet. Bree had no idea that people in other countries eat horse and the brutal ways in which the slaughter pipeline treats these majestic animals but the more she learned she couldn’t turn away and not do anything. One of the horses she got that day was going blind and the other had a huge wound on his hip. She had multiple vets look at the wound and they all suggested the horse be put down but she wanted to give him a chance. It took two years of tending to it multiple times a day but it finally healed and that horse she named Lucky. Lucky was about 200lbs underweight when she got him but once he gained enough for Solvi to ride Bree and her dad got her on him and walked him around while holding and helping Solvi balance on him. After about a year and a half and finally getting scheduled once a week at an official Hippotherapy practice, Solvi finally started to walk! She is now almost 6 and still not talking but Bree believes she will one day. Solvi also loves horses and they all love her. Not long after that Bree adopted a mustang from a rescue but he was also in terrible condition and she learned more about the equine rescue business. She started helping that rescue and became a board member. It was a great learning experience as she learned what doesn’t work and that many times rescues can get in over their heads and fail the horses miserably. She desperately wanted to make things better so they formed Wild Hearts Haven and the rest is history!