Katherine Compitus

Katherine Compitus
Born	(1977-03-05) 5 March 1977 New York, New York United States of America
🏳️ Nationality	United States and Colombia
💼 Occupation	Clinical Social Worker, Animal Behaviorist, Educator, Psychotherapist, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur

Katherine Olaya Compitus (née Katherine Olaya Gross) (born 5 March 1977 in New York City, New York) is a clinical social worker, educator and animal behaviorist whose work focuses on animal-assisted therapy, veterinary social work and the human-animal bond.

Life and career

Katherine Compitus was born and raised in New York City where she attended the Brearley school and Stuyvesant High School. Her mother is a Colombian bilingual special education teacher and her father is a Jewish information technology specialist. Katherine previously worked as an elementary and high-school teacher and holds master's degrees in education, clinical social work, animal behavior and conservation. She is due to complete her a doctorate of clinical social work at New York University in May 2020. She is a member of MENSA, the high-IQ society and in 2018 won a scholarship for her work.

Katherine is an established researcher, author and practitioner whose work focuses on comparative psychology and the human-animal bond. She is the founder and chairman of Surrey Hills Sanctuary, a non-profit micro-farm sanctuary dedicated to education, community outreach and policy change as it relates to vulnerable people with pets. She developed and taught the first Human-Animal Bond and Direct Social Work course at NYU's Silver School of Social Work. Katherine lectured in the graduate social work schools at New York University, Columbia University and Fordham University, as well as internationally at conferences such as the Animal Behavior Society and ADEC (the Association for Death Education Counsel). She is known for her work on pet loss and the process of conducting clinical social work with the assistance of animals She is the author of the Zooeiya blog for Psychology Today. and wrote about psychiatric emergency rooms for The Huffington Post.

Katherine was a consultant for author Jennifer Weiner on her book "Who Do You Love", by providing insight into the field of social work education. In 2007, Katherine married Paul Compitus, a fashion designer. Together they in promote a vegan lifestyle, animal rights and responsible pet ownership. They are the co-founders of Wiggly Pups, a luxury Pet Care Service

Bibliography

• Compitus, K. (2019). "The Process of Integrating Animal-Assisted Therapy into Clinical Social Work Practice". Clinical Social Work Journal, 1–9.
• Compitus, K. (2019). "Traumatic pet loss and the integration of attachment-based animal assisted therapy". Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 29(2), 119–131
• Compitus, K. (2019). "Traumatic Pet Loss and the Clinician". In Counselman-Carpenter, E. & Redcay, A. (Eds.), Working with grief and traumatic loss: theory, practice, personal reflection & self care. San Diego, Calif.: Cognella Publishing.
• Compitus, K. (December 2019). "No Place To Lay Your Bones?".
• Compitus, K. (2016). "Welcome to the Psych Emergency Room", The Huffington Post.
• Compitus, K. O. (2016). "An Analysis of Canine Processing of Stimulus Compounds Varying in Light and Sound Intensity", CUNY Academic Works.
• Compitus, K. (2013). "Canine Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Disease". Academic Journal of Canine Science.

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