Licensed counselor, personal coach, published author, mentor and educator, Saldich taught at UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, Notre Dame College Belmont and the French Press Institute in Paris. She has presented papers at national and international conferences, and published articles in London, Paris, Dublin and the United States. Her book Electronic Democracy, about television and democracy in America, is a classic.

Saldich has experienced the stress connected with relocating from one country to another. She lived one year in England and four in Paris where she received her Ph.D. in sociology, with honors from the Sorbonne. In addition, she has traveled in 27 countries on five continents.

Saldich also has experiential knowledge of career change and later life transitions. In her mid-fifties she began a six-year journey towards the counseling license, MFT, completing a second master's degree, with high honors in psychology, and diverse internships about issues pertaining to professionals, people with addictions to drugs and alcohol, the frail elderly, children in K-6th grades, adolescents, as well as general family practice issues, having to do with depression, anxiety, interpersonal relationships, anger management, and self-defeating behaviors.

For nearly thirty-five years in Palo Alto, Saldich's community service provided her with an opportunity to co-found and co-chair a business and professionals group for the American Association of University Women, organize and facilitate an Amnesty International conference on human rights, co-found and be a board member of the International Visitors Hospitality Center, serve on the League of Women Voters' board, co-chair the City's Subcommittee on Environment for the Year 2000, chair and mediate for the City's Rental Housing and Mediation Task Force, and do publicity for the Career Action Center.

She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and of the International Institute of Communication. Her pro bono counseling includes the Rape Crisis Line and Gunn High School where she worked with adolescents and their families.

A recipient of the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Dr. Saldich was also elected a member of the honorary counseling fraternity Chi Sigma Iota. She has been married, was a single parent, and is a grandmother.

Her private practice is now in San Mateo, California.