Shoshana is a mental health and healthcare team educator, academic and researcher with professional designations as a social worker, psychotherapist, gerontologist, clinical simulationist and caring clown. She is also a trained coach, applied mindfulness practitioner, neurofeedback practitioner and guided imagery expert. Her clinical work focuses on disrupting stress, surviving and thriving through health challenges, and well-being through life-transitions. The focus of her doctoral research and more recent educational facilitation, coaching and research is leadership coaching, mindfulness, appreciative inquiry and relationship-based education and care.