A member of Kibbutz Usha, I am an ardent Zionist who made Aliya from the U.S. and mother of four and grandmother of twelve. "Retired" after 19 years of work in welfare institutions with maltreated children as an animal-assisted psychotherapist and social worker, I continue my work through research and writing. I was the founding chairperson of the IAAAP - The Israeli Association of Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy, am a researcher in the area of animal-assisted psychotherapy with maltreated children and have numerous publications in the area.
