Shoshana was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and started her professional life as a preschool teacher. After taking a Master's degree in literature, she pioneered a multi-cultural communications program during apartheid in South Africa. Her manual, Communicate While You Teach was written for teachers and nurses in training. Interest in intercultural group dynamics led her to a Masters degree in psychology at John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California, when she arrived in the United States. She is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, practicing in Walnut Creek, California. Specializations are: people in transition, couple counseling, child therapy, food and weight issues, hypnotherapy, and EMDR. Shoshana teaches at university level, supervises interns, and provides continuing education for therapists and nurses. For thirty-two years, Shoshana has been teaching, training, public speaking, and facilitating workshops and retreats in the community. She has presented at twelve, state-wide, professional conferences. Publications include poetry, a short story, and articles on food and weight issues and eating disorders, addictions, relationships, spirituality, communication, the family, and parenting. Her self-help book, The Satisfied Soul GuideBook: Your Path to Transformation was published in 2011. Books, reading, and writing have been an important part of Shoshana's life since childhood. Two tools were invaluable in healing from a challenging childhood and her long history of bulimia: Natalie Goldberg's, Wild Mind, which introduced her to free, associative journaling, and Buddhism's Vipassana meditation technique. Her spiritual and creative life, which she defines as “connection in many spheres of life” is of prime importance to her. Shoshana lives in Walnut Creek. She enjoys swimming, hiking, singing, piano and guitar, song writing, sketching, and ceramic sculpture.