Dr. Daphna Cohen Ben Shaul (Licht) has been a professional classic singer and is a voice and speech expert for the professional voice user as well as a speech therapist. She has been guiding singers and actors for over 40 years and has worked since 1994 as a speech therapist.

Her singing training includes a B.A Mus. degree followed by intensive studies with leading voice teachers in Tel Aviv, Vienna and Milan. As a professional singer, Daphna has performed with leading orchestras in Israel, was recorded and broadcasted in Israel's leading radio and television stations, gave recitals and released two CD’s: Origins (1991) and Emotional Turbulence (2004).

As a voice and speech expert for the professional voice user, Daphna founded and led the musical workshop at the “Beit Zvi” School for the Performing Arts for several years and is currently teaching the Art of Speech at the Theater Department in Tel Aviv University.

As a Speech Therapist, Daphna has worked with the public health insurances as well as in the Wolfson Medical Center and in a private clinic which she leads to the present day, treating patients, children and adults,  on the wide spectrum of voice, speech and language disabilities.

In addition to her B.A. Mus. received from the Hebrew university and the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem, Dr. Daphna Cohen Ben Shaul received a B.A. in Communicational Disorders from Tel Aviv University, an M.A. in Special Education for the Hearing Impaired from Tel Aviv university, and a PhD in Linguistics from Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Daphna also graduated the program of Psychodynamic Approaches in Adults’ Treatments at the School of Psychotherapy in Tel Aviv University.