ESAAT

Founding member ESAAT and TAT, academically certified specialist, state-sponsored dog trainer, TBH examiner, dog license examiner of the municipality of Vienna Management TAT, in the management team Diploma course specialist, active lecturing activity, since 2004 Vice President ESAAT has been using certified dogs/cats for more than 30 years

Studies of Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Mag. rer. soc.) Studied law at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1978) Language diplomas from the Universities of Michigan (English) and Brussels (French) Certified court interpreter for English (University of Vienna) Former member of the National Council and federal spokeswoman of the Green Austria Head of the largest Austrian national parliament. Animal shelters, “Tierschutz Austria” currently working in the Ministry of Social Affairs for the field of animal welfare “DIE Stimme” for animal welfare in Austria

Studied biology at the University of Duisburg-Essen; Psychology at Towson University (USA) and Law at the Baltimore School of Law (USA). She received her doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen with a focus on the behavioral biology of dogs. She started the animal-assisted intervention with her animal welfare dogs at the Delta Society (now pet partners) in 1991 and has continued this work in Germany ever since. It itself offers further training to www.tta-nrw.de the proceeds of which go entirely to animal and nature conservation. Sandra Foltin is involved in several practical projects in animal welfare and ethics projects and founded her own non-profit association for nature and animal welfare in 2009. She is also a scientific advisor to the Quality Network School Assistance Dogs e. V.

Studied to become a certified social worker and certified social pedagogue.
Runs her own psychotherapeutic practice for children and adolescents and is also licensed as a Heilpraktikerin for Psychotherapy.

She is currently pursuing a doctorate on “The impact of therapy dogs on the emotional resilience of families in crisis during outpatient treatments.”
She has over 20 years of experience in animal-assisted work and has been working with her therapy dog Rosi (trained and state-certified by TAT – Tiere als Therapie Vienna) for four years.
She regularly gives lectures on animal-assisted interventions and their application in psychosocial contexts.

Certified European Dog Trainer Academically certified cynologist Chairwoman Association Animals Help Life – ESAAT certified therapy dog training Animal welfare qualified dog trainer has been leading trained therapy assistance dogs for years

Qualified social pedagogue, journalist and author of several dog and horse books, including the “TBH Bible” Das Therapiehundebuch, currently already in its 6th edition