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BIRDS OF A FEATHER
A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals
The inspiring story of how one woman's vision helped create a unique healing community.
Animal lover though she was, Lorin Lindner was definitely not looking for a pet. She was busy training to be a psychologist. Then came Sammy - a mischievous and extremely loud bright pink Moluccan cockatoo who had been abandoned. It was love at first sight. But Sammy needed a companion. Enter Mango, lover of humans ("Hewwo"), inveterate thief of precious objects. Realizing that there were many parrots in need of new homes, Dr. Lindner eventually founded a sanctuary for them.
Meanwhile, she began to meet homeless veterans on the streets of Los Angeles. Before long she was a full time advocate for these former service members, who were often suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and finding it hard to navigate the large VA Healthcare System Ultimately, Dr. Lindner created a program for them, too.
Eventually the two parts of her life came together when she founded Serenity Park, a unique sanctuary on the grounds of the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Healthcare Center. She had noticed that the veterans she treated as a clinical psychologist and the parrots she had taken in as a rescuer quickly formed bonds. Men and women who had been silent in therapy would share their stories and their feelings more easily with animals. Now wounded warriors and wounded parrots find a path of healing together. Birds of a Feather is ultimately a love story between veterans and the birds they nurse back to health and between Dr. Lindner and her husband, a veteran with PTSD, who healed at Serenity Park. Full of remarkable people and colorful birds, this book reminds us that we all have the power to make a difference.
Lorin Lindner, PhD, MPH is known for her dedicated and compassionate commitment to helping people in need. Her service to veterans is well known and she has helped to start two programs serving homeless veterans on the grounds of the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center. As Clinical Director for the New Direction Homeless Veterans program at the West L.A. VA, she began trauma-based therapy for veterans. After leaving, she founded Serenity Park Sanctuary, a facility that helps disabled veterans care for traumatized parrots in a "Birds of a Feather" work therapy program. As a specialist in psychological testing, Dr. Lindner has served as an expert witness and consultant to many law firms. She also specializes in treating perpetrators of animal abuse and in training other therapists to apply a treatment model that has been successfully used to reduce recidivism and repeat cruelty toward animals. Dr. Lindner's has been an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College for the past 16 years.
Meanwhile, she began to meet homeless veterans on the streets of Los Angeles. Before long she was a full time advocate for these former service members, who were often suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and finding it hard to navigate the large VA Healthcare System Ultimately, Dr. Lindner created a program for them, too.
Eventually the two parts of her life came together when she founded Serenity Park, a unique sanctuary on the grounds of the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Healthcare Center. She had noticed that the veterans she treated as a clinical psychologist and the parrots she had taken in as a rescuer quickly formed bonds. Men and women who had been silent in therapy would share their stories and their feelings more easily with animals. Now wounded warriors and wounded parrots find a path of healing together. Birds of a Feather is ultimately a love story between veterans and the birds they nurse back to health and between Dr. Lindner and her husband, a veteran with PTSD, who healed at Serenity Park. Full of remarkable people and colorful birds, this book reminds us that we all have the power to make a difference.
Lorin Lindner, PhD, MPH is known for her dedicated and compassionate commitment to helping people in need. Her service to veterans is well known and she has helped to start two programs serving homeless veterans on the grounds of the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center. As Clinical Director for the New Direction Homeless Veterans program at the West L.A. VA, she began trauma-based therapy for veterans. After leaving, she founded Serenity Park Sanctuary, a facility that helps disabled veterans care for traumatized parrots in a "Birds of a Feather" work therapy program. As a specialist in psychological testing, Dr. Lindner has served as an expert witness and consultant to many law firms. She also specializes in treating perpetrators of animal abuse and in training other therapists to apply a treatment model that has been successfully used to reduce recidivism and repeat cruelty toward animals. Dr. Lindner's has been an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College for the past 16 years.
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