About Me
- NY State licensed Creative Arts Therapist
- Board Certified Music Therapist
- Certified Analytical Music Therapist
Book contributions:
April 2021, Co-author of article:
Three roads diverged: Transformative self-experience in
AMT and GIM
Megan Shelley, Juliane Kowski & Frances Smith Goldberg
In Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
"Analytical Music Therapy" Ed. J. Th. Eschen, J. Kingsley
(2002)
"Psychodynamic Music Therapy" Ed. S. Hadley, Barcelona
(2003)
"Healing the Inner City Child: Creative Arts therapies with
At-Risk-Youth", J. Kingsley (2006) (download - pdf 288 kb)
Education
- Masters for Music Therapy from New York University NYC, 1998
- Certified Drumcircle Facilitator by HealthRHYTHMS
- Number of Play Therapy trainings at “Play Therapy Training
Institute”,New Jersey
- Trained by "Connect" (NYC based program specializing in
training professionals to work with domestic violence)
- BA in teaching and taught elementary school music, mathematics
and German in Germany (1988)
- BA in music with specialization in voice and vocal teaching for
contemporary music and Jazz , Germany(1995)
Work Experience
2018 Analytical Music Therapy Supervisor at the "Blended Learning
Analytical Music Therapy Certification Program“ of Molloy College, NY
(for more information click here please)
San Francisco, East Bay, CA : 2010
- 2015 Director and Mental Health Consultant of Child Care Solutions
at Early Childhood Mental Health Programs in Richmond,CA :
consulting with families, teachers and directors in preschools
in West Contra Costa County
- From 3/2011 - 3/2016 Music Therapist, per diem at UCSF
(University of California, San Fransisco, Langley Porter, Inpatient
Psychiatric Hospital)
- Private Practice in Berkeley, working with children, adolescents
and their families suffering from trauma, grief and loss
- Clinical supervision for expressive arts therapy interns at
Albany School District
- Volunteer at Sutter VNA & Hospice until August 2011
Facilitating a drum circle program pilot project in Albany
- Elementary School and Berkeley Public Preschool to support
social-emotional learning in young children
- Voice lessons for youth and adults
Jackson, Wyoming: 2005-2010
- Drum circle facilitator for public and private schools,private
businesses in Teton Valley
- Worked for Teton Family and Youth Services running music
therapy groups with traumatized adolescents, training counselors
and providing individual music therapy
- Worked for the Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center
implementing music therapy services such as music therapy for
individuals, music therapy groups with children suffering from
trauma, grief and loss and running weekly drum circles
- Private practice for children, youth and families dealing with a
variety of emotional traumas
New York City 1998-2005
- Worked with adults suffering from brain injuries, dementia, and
a variety of psychiatric illnesses
- Implemented a Music Therapy Program for the AHRC in NYC,
working with developmentally disabled adults and children
- Worked with children with emotional challenges within a
substance abuse program at the Cumberland Diagnostic and
Treatment Center, Brooklyn, NY
- "Music Therapy Relief Project"- Music therapy services for
children who were affected by the tragedy of 9/11
Worked with children, families and elderly people suffering from
trauma, grief and loss for the hospital "Lutheran Medical Center"
in Brooklyn, NY
Professional Musical Experience
Voice lessons for children and adults (contemporary music and Jazz)
Jazz performances in variety of settings
Composer and Arranger of original music (CD's: 5036 miles,
2008; Change, 2011; For The Time Being, 2013)
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