Dr. Pia Salk

Dr. Pia Salk

Dr. Pia Salk specializes in social justice and the human-animal bond.

Pia also is a writer and the spokesperson for www.Adopt-A-Pet.com, North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. She is a professor in the area of diversity and family systems and a frequent guest on national radio programs where she offers her perspective on pets as part of the family. Her extensive involvement in animal rescue efforts and her expertise on animal welfare have been featured on national shows such as Animal Planet’s “Hurricane Heroes," "ABC’s “20/20,”  and The Martha Stewart show to name a few.

Pia is the niece of polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk and daughter of bestselling author and psychologist Lee Salk. She resides in Los Angeles, California, with her multiple adopted pets, including her three cats Max, Olive and Chauncy.

In both her clinical work and in her writing, Pia addresses topics ranging from the loss of a personal companion animal to the climate of animal welfare as it relates to social justice on a broader scale.
Her writing is included in the recently published, Pet Loss and Human Emotion. And her extensive involvement in the animal rescue effort following hurricane Katrina has been featured on such shows as Animal Planet’s Hurricane Heroes and 20/20 to name a few.

Pia is the spokes person for www.Adopt-A-Pet.com , North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website.  This site gives adoptable animals national exposure and a chance at being adopted into loving homes.  


Pia hosts The Save-a-Pet show and is a contributing writer on the Adopt-a-Pet.com website. She covers such topics as why adopting not only saves lives, but makes for good parenting and promotes pro-social behavior in today’s youth.
 
Pia has developed programs that pair at-risk teens with animals who share similar histories of abuse and neglect.  According to one of her Psychologist colleagues, “She may be little in stature, but she is big on personality. The kids and animals she works with love her ability to roll around and get dirty, both physically and emotionally.  She has a knack for reading both animals and humans!”.
 
Dr. Salk brings her own rescued animals into her clinical work. And she often credits the animals as being “the real therapists.”  
Please contact Dr. Pia Salk at pia@drpiasalk.com

Dr. Pia Salk is a psychologist, animal welfare advocate and spokesperson for the Tidy Cats® Campaign to End Cattiness.  As an expert on the human-animal bond and a multiple cat owner herself, Pia frequently highlights the important role that companion animals play in our lives.  In fact, she often credits the pets as being “the real therapists.”  

 



 

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