Dimona Yaniv, Psy.D. is an educational counselor with 30-plus years of experience in teaching (grades 1-12), school counseling, counselor training and teacher mentoring. Academic lecturer and founder/director of psychological counseling private practice focusing on personality and parenting. In-depth experience in group psychotherapy. Currently Dimona trains students at David Yellin Academic College of Education and teachers at the Central Teacher Training School of the Israeli Ministry of Education. She earned her Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D.) at the Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, CA and her Master of Science in Applied Educational Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston. MA. In 2011 Dimona was awarded The Distinguished Fulbright Award in Teaching Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and she studied at the University of Maryland.