Become Cat Smart: Discover How to Communicate With Your Cat's Inner Tiger

Create The Rewarding Relationship With
Your Cat You Desire And Deserve

You and Your Cat Can Become
More Than Just Friends

You Can Share a Spiritual Bond
Based on Trust, Love & Fun

No Matter Why It Hurts
Cats Make You Feel Better!

DR. SIGNE

Signe A. Dayhoff, Ph.D., M.A., M.Ed., is a Social Psychologist, Cognitive-Behaviorist for Humans, Cat Communicator, and Applied Cat Behaviorist with post-graduate training in counseling who received her doctorate from Boston University.

For 27+ years she has been a consultant, educator, trainer, author, speaker, and coach specializing in increasing interpersonal communication and emotional intelligence which she has also applied to the companion animal-human bond.

She is a certified administrator and interpreter of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) to increase awareness for effective interpersonal communications in general and in application to cats.

Over the last several years, Dr. Signe also has been exploring the science of creating happier, healthier, more engaged, purposeful, meaningful, and fulfilled lives through individuals connecting with their strengths and gratitude to also apply to cat relationships. As a result, she completed training with Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, who is author of Learned Optimism, and is a Certified Authentic Happiness Coach.

Signe A. Dayhoff, Ph.D.

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Currently she is president of Effectiveness-Plus Publications LLC, an interpersonal and personal effectiveness development firm, providing educational services and products to enhance individual communications skills.

Prior to Effectiveness-Plus, for ten years she was president of The Mentoring Network, which provided mentoring, consulting, and training with an emphasis on interpersonal and personal skills. As a result of her doctoral research and work, she chaired the Task Force on Mentoring for the American Psychological Association.

She also has taught psychology at Boston University, University of Massachusetts, and Framingham State College and has done research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, and Fairview State Hospital. She has presented the findings of her own research nationally.

Her latest book, the new and improved 2nd Ed. of Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety (2010), is the social phobic's bible and insider's scoop. Based upon years of research with sufferers and consultation with the pre-eminent clinical researchers in the field, it provides education, treatment, and life-rebuilding strategies for personal and interpersonal communication. Dr. Signe is considered an authority in transforming social anxiety into social effectiveness and uses many of these behavioral strategies successfully with cats.

Notables, such as Dr. Albert Ellis, have praised the book, the 1st Ed. of which was consistently ranked among the ten best-selling anxiety books on Amazon.com.

Author of four other books, she also contributed to David Riklan's 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life (Vol. 2) and Steven J. Bennett's Executive Chess: Creative Problem Solving By 45 of America's Top Business Leaders and Thinkers.

She has over 331 published newspaper, magazine, ezine, and blog articles and has been quoted in publications including Executive Travel, Time Out New York, Boston Business Journal, Shape, Industry Week, Wall Street Journal, Success, and Cosmopolitan.

She has appeared on the nationally-syndicated Doug Stephan's Good Day, USA, Talk America Radio Network show, and local radio and television programs. For over four years she hosted and produced The Inside Track, the Continental Cablevision career-education interview program for which she received a Conti Award nomination.

Dr. Signe has provided seminars on various topics for organizations such as, (in alphabetical order) the
- Association of Genetic Technologists
- Association of Governmental Accountants
- Boston University
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts department of Employment
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Environmental Protection Agency EPA)
- Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
- Health Action New Mexico
- HealthPlex Dental Insurance
- Honeywell Bull
- Lesley College
- Merrill Lynch
- Maine Educational Consortium
- New Mexico Conference of Churches
- Physicians For Health Care Access
- Suffolk University Law School
- University of New Mexico Continuing Education
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences School
- Wellesley College

She has also presented to community organizations on the companion animal-human bond, increasing human-cat understanding and communication, and dealing with pet loss.

Cat lover, rescuer, adopter, and foster parent since childhood, Dr. Signe is "Kitty Mom" to rescued cats (mostly senior and "special needs" cats). She also cat communicates to socialize rescued animals for the all-volunteer, no-kill non-profit CARMA (Companion Animal Rescue and Medical Assistance), in Corrales, NM, to ready them for adoption to loving homes. (To see more about CARMA)

Dr. Signe

The Cat Lover's REAL Meow!

P.S. Smoochie adds that while she is not a "special needs" cat, she is "special."

"When you truly communicate with your cat, you embrace your
cat's inner tiger, and love your relationship and yourself even more."

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