Introducing
Dr. Margot Nacey

Margot Nacey grew up on Dog Patch Farm in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her mother ran a riding school, and she started showing when she was eight.

In 1961 and 62, she received the Tennessee Valley Pony Club Award for Best Performance, Horsemanship, and Sportsmanship. From 1964 through 1968, she qualified for indoors (USEF National Finals). Her horse, Miss Lennox, was 1968 Kentucky and Ohio Hunter Jumper Associations Working Hunter Champion. Her summers were spent directing Dog Patch Farm Day Camp and as well as preparing horses for the racetrack.

Margot was a USEF steward and dressage technical delegate for 17 years. In 1980, her horse Roz was Colorado Hunter Jumper Association Beginner Jumper Reserve Champion. In 1981, Roz was Colorado Hunter Jumper over 30 Adult Amateur Champion. They were Rocky Mountain Dressage Society Qualified Horse and Rider.

Since 1980 through today, Margot's horses and ponies have won many Colorado Hunter Jumper Association year-end awards, as well as numerous Circuit championships at the Arizona Winter Circuit, Estes Park Hunter Jumper Festival, and High Prairie Summer Circuit. In 1994, she received the Colorado Hunter Jumper Association Sportsmanship Award. She is trained in natural horsemanship, dressage, and animal communication.

Her sports psychology articles have appeared in Practical Horseman, Horseman's Yankee Peddler, Horse Connection, The Chronicle of the Horse, as well as Tom Holmes's The Total Rider, pages 109-122. She has worked with many successful equestrians since 1984 using Gargot Farms' Mental Advantage program.

Dr. Nacey is a licensed clinical psychologist and has been in private practice since 1984. She works with children, adolescents, and their families specializing in PTSD. She is trained in mediation and is certified in EMDR, oftentimes testifying as an expert witness. She has taught at University of Northern Colorado, Denver University, and Lesley University. She is director of Northern Colorado Center for Learning Differences. Her friends call her "Dr. Dyslexia" because of her learning differences, ADHD, and lack of peripheral vision. "I have to depend heavily on the theories and techniques of sports psychology in order to be a competitive equestrian. It is a way of life for me."

Dr. Nacey is also known for her success with animals that others consider not trainable. She uses a system of positive training, "Thinking in Pictures," EMDR, Visualization and imagery, as well as methods of energy psychology. She describes herself as always in a state of learning and growing. Currently she is an active competitor, practicing psychologist, and teaches the Mental Advantage Program at Gargot Farms Riding Academy, Berthoud, Colorado.