Ziva Ariela Barel-Shoshani has five academic degrees.  She has graduated B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, B.A. in Psychology, M.BA in the Open University of Israel, and M.A. in Art Therapy from the University of Haifa.    Email: zivabarel@gmail.com

She is in the final stages of her Ph.D. studies at the School of Health and Welfare Sciences at the University of Haifa.  Her doctoral dissertation is on the emotional implications in body image drawings of survivors of breast cancer. 

She is working as a Art therapist and teaches physics to gifted high school students.