He earned his MFA in Theater and a PhD in Social Work from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His practice engages the worlds of narrative therapy; applied theater and creative generative writing in projects such as ex-offenders' storytelling (University of Chicago Gray Center For Arts And Inquiry) using playback theater in conflict resolution groups (Israel); and developing therapeutic models that apply the use of theater in narrative therapy (Dramatherapy, Journal of the British Association of Dramatherapists ) and creative writing in grief therapy ( The British Journal Of Social Work). Barak is also a qualitative researcher who studies narratives to understand how they are constructed, and how social meaning-making processes influence personal identities.