With over 33 years experience as a psychotherapist and dance therapist, Arzi has worked in hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics and in private practice. She has facilitated community workshops in personal development, assertive communication, team building and conscious aging, utilizing experiential and expressive arts therapies.

Prior to becoming a therapist, Arzi was a guidance counselor and teacher in New York inner city elementary and junior high schools for 12 years.

She coordinated and directed national conferences for the National Association for Poetry Therapy and the American Dance Therapy Association.

She received her MS in Counseling and Guidance from the City University of New York and her MA in Dance Therapy from New York University. Arzi is trained and certified as an instructor in The Lebed Method: Focus on Healing through Movement and Dance Program, a therapeutic dance movement program for women who have had any type of breast cancer intervention, people who suffer from chronic-fatigue syndrome, MS, arthritis or other debilitating illnesses, and for active elders who enjoy movement and music.

Arzi studied Insight Meditation with Matthew Flickstein of the Forest Way Insight Meditation Center.

She was an original co-founder and volunteer with Lifespring: Saugerties Adult Learning Community where she was on the Board of Directors, the Chair of the Curriculum Committee and offered courses as well. She was a volunteer mediator with the Dispute Resolution Center, but now provides mediation services in the Saugerties Justice Court. While she was with DRC she also dealt with custody and visitation concerns.  Working as a parent educator she provided classes for parents who were newly separated or who had on-going conflict, to help them understand the effects of the separation on their children.

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She currently facilitates writing groups with the purpose of bringing to consciousness memories and unresolved past conflicts for reevaluation and resolution. It is a normal, developmental task of the later years and is a process that is different for each individual. 

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Arzi was co-founder, facilitator, and producer of a performance group called the Third Age Players whose intent was to bring awareness to younger and older people about the issues and themes that are faced by older people. The performance piece that came out of this collaboration is called "Age Struck." 

 

There is always time and space for some kind of art. Arzi is a mixed media artist working mainly with artist's books.