Meet Rachel Geller, Ed.D.

Rachel Geller, Ed.D. is HTAT's certified cat behaviorist. She was on the board for The Cat Connection from 2017 to 2020. Previously, she was on the Board of Directors in the role of vice president at the Gifford Cat Shelter for 7 years. Rachel is a certified Cat Behavior and Retention Specialist through the Humane Society and a certified Humane Education Specialist through the Academy of Prosocial Learning. She is also a certified Pet Chaplain® through the Association of Veterinary Pastoral Education. She is currently a cat behaviorist/consultant for Here Today Adopted Tomorrow Animal Sanctuary and Baypath Humane Society, and provides cat behavior help both locally and throughout the country to her clients, including cat owners and shelters.

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Rachel was a panelist for the Humane Society in an educational webinar which teaches shelters how to set up cat behavior programs. She has presented for the Massachusetts Animal Coalition and the New England Federation of Humane Societies on topics involving cat behavior, cat behavior & retention programs and surrender prevention. She was also a presenter for the Online Behavior Day sponsored by the Community Cats Podcast. Rachel’s cat behavior program has been recognized by HSUS as a model program.

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As a humane education specialist, Rachel is the author of the webinar “Activities for Inclusion” for the Association of Professional Humane Educators, and was a contributing author to “The Ark Project – Jewish Initiative for Animals.” She is also certified as a RedRover Reader, which is a reading-based program to develop empathy for animals in children.

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Rachel was a panelist for a webinar on pet chaplaincy for the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab through Brandeis University.

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Rachel’s book, Saving the World, One Cat at a Time, was written to help with resolving cats’ behavioral and emotional problems with the goal of creating harmonious relationships between cats and their owners.