About the Author

Bianca Beham

"Enabling shared experiences and witnessing a successful coexistence between humans and animals – that always touches me," says Bianca Beham, a qualified educator with additional training in Gestalt therapy, lecturer in pedagogy, and instructor for AAI. She is a qualified AAI professional (ISAAT), a trained AAI team with her dog Lupo, a founding member of the quality network PFOTE (Professional Human-Dog Teams for Animal-Assisted Interventions), a member of BTI and the "Friends of the Foundation Alliance Human and Animal," and an external assessor for ISAAT. To ensure the well-being of all involved in animal-assisted work, she advocates for the further development and establishment of ethical principles in AAI.