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Spotlight Session 1: The Future of Research in Music Therapy: Topics & Methodologies
Wednesday, July 26, 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Dr. SarahRose Black, Dr Monika Geretsegger, Dr. Mark Ettenberger, Professor Felicity Baker, Dr. Rika Ikuno-Yamamoto

Monika Geretsegger

Dr. Monika Geretsegger
Senior Researcher | NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
Monika Geretsegger, PhD, is a music therapist and clinical and health psychologist based in Vienna, Austria. She works as Senior Researcher at GAMUT – The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway (since 2014), and as music therapist at the Department of Social Psychiatry, Regional Hospital Hollabrunn, Austria (since 2006). She serves as Managing Editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and has previously served on the board of the Austrian Association of Music Therapists for ten years, six of which as president. She received her PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark, where she explored elements and effects of improvisational music therapy for autistic children. Most of her research activities focus on the effectiveness and applicability of music interventions in the fields of mental health and autism, and on determinants of mental health and well-being in children and adults. She has expertise and experience in leading international research groups, and her work has been published in international journals within and beyond the music therapy field, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. She is especially interested in the possibilities and challenges of interdisciplinary research, and more recently also in participatory approaches and user engagement in research.

Mark Ettenberger

Mark Ettenberger
Director | Sono – Centro De Musicoterapia
Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MA, MT, is an Ethno-Music therapist trained in Austria and obtained his PhD in Music Therapy from Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He is a RBL (Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby) grandparent and holds a M.A. in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, University Jaume I, Spain. He currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia, where he is the director of SONO – Centro de Musicoterapia (www.sono.la) and a lecturer at the M.A. in Music Therapy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He coordinates the music therapy services at several hospitals in the country.

Felicity Baker

Professor Felicity Baker
Associate Dean (Research) | The University of Melbourne
Professor Felicity Baker is Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Director, International Research Partnerships for the Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit, and former Australia Research Council Future Fellow.
She has attracted $16+ million in research funding including principal investigator on 3 National Health and Medical Research Council grants, and an Australia Research Council Discovery Grant. She is currently International Project Leader of the home-based music intervention training program for carers of people with dementia (HOMESIDE) involving research teams in Australia, UK, Norway, Poland and Germany and Principal Investigator on the Medical Research Future Fund project Music Attuned Technology Care eHealth (MATCH) involving interdisciplinary teams including allied health, music therapy, psychiatry, software and hardware engineering, eHealth technologies, human computer interaction, health economics, and biostatistics. She has published over 180 publications including in The Lancet Healthy Longevity (2022). She is currently Associate Editor, Journal of Music Therapy, former President of The Australian Music Therapy Association, and former editor of The Australian Journal of Music Therapy. Felicity has received several awards including an American Music Therapy Association Research Award (2015), the World Federation of Music Therapy Research Award (2017) and an ADC Australian Leadership Award (2011).

Rika Ikuno

Dr. Rika Ikuno
Lecturer | Ochanomizu University
Rika Ikuno, Ph.D., MT-BC, CPP, originally studied music and German literature in Japan. She spent her transition of her late 20’s at Pendle Hill, a Quaker study and contemplation center in Pennsylvania, and continued to stay at US to study piano performance and music therapy at West Chester University, Immaculata college, Master classes of Temple university. Her Master’s thesis was about Music and caring at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since coming back to Japan, she has been practicing for children and the elderly, teaching at Tokai University, etc. Her Ph.D thesis in 2015 was “Co-presence as Mediated by Music – An Interpretation of the Musical/Relational Aspects of Long Term Music Therapy –” at Ochanomizu University. Since then she implements her studies as a Faculty of Core Research, Ochanomizu University, and her interest areas are “music as medium for relationship,” “co-presence,” “reflexivity,” “music therapists’ identities under the pandemic,” and so on. She is also enthusiastic about facilitating dialogical circles among/outside music therapists, and presides three independent groups: “Nobana-no-za” (music therapy practitioners), “Sophia Nobana” (music therapy literature reading/discussing), “Kokonowa” (exploring study methods on musical clinical practices.)
She has served as an editor of “Voices, A World Forum for Music Therapy” since its start.

SarahRose Black

Dr. SarahRose Black
Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Music Therapist | University Health Network
Dr. Sarah Rose Black PhD, RP, MTA, is a certified music therapist and registered psychotherapist, specializing in palliative care and psychosocial oncology at both the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Kensington Hospice in Toronto, Canada. She is a pianist, vocalist, public speaker and music health educator, and has performed, taught, and presented on her clinical work and research across Canada. She has presented at conferences, arts-based workshops and medical education events throughout the country. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2020, which included a Collaborative Specialization in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care across the Life Course. Her doctoral research explored music therapy in the context of assisted dying and her research interests include music therapy in the context of psilocybin assisted psychotherapy, as well as music therapy for adolescents with cancer. SarahRose is a clinical supervisor at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy. She teaches at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, researches at the University Health Network, and provides music therapy and psychosocial care in her daily clinical practice.

Felicity Baker

Professor Felicity Baker
Associate Dean (Research) | The University of Melbourne
Professor Felicity Baker is Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Director, International Research Partnerships for the Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit, and former Australia Research Council Future Fellow.
She has attracted $16+ million in research funding including principal investigator on 3 National Health and Medical Research Council grants, and an Australia Research Council Discovery Grant. She is currently International Project Leader of the home-based music intervention training program for carers of people with dementia (HOMESIDE) involving research teams in Australia, UK, Norway, Poland and Germany and Principal Investigator on the Medical Research Future Fund project Music Attuned Technology Care eHealth (MATCH) involving interdisciplinary teams including allied health, music therapy, psychiatry, software and hardware engineering, eHealth technologies, human computer interaction, health economics, and biostatistics. She has published over 180 publications including in The Lancet Healthy Longevity (2022). She is currently Associate Editor, Journal of Music Therapy, former President of The Australian Music Therapy Association, and former editor of The Australian Journal of Music Therapy. Felicity has received several awards including an American Music Therapy Association Research Award (2015), the World Federation of Music Therapy Research Award (2017) and an ADC Australian Leadership Award (2011).
Abstract
Join Drs. Monika Geretsegger (Austria), Mark Ettenberger (Colombia), Felicity Baker (Australia), and Rika Ikuno (Japan) as they dive into contemporary issues and ideas, and share insights related to music therapy research across the globe. This dynamic group of speakers will bring rich perspectives on a variety of topics as each speaker has contributed enormously to the scope of music therapy research in their roles as clinicians, principal investigators, program developers and coordinators, educators, and academic journal editors. Moderated by Dr. SarahRose Black (Canada), this dynamic group with research experience that spans clinical populations and methodologies will share their current work, their insights and their hopes for the future of music therapy research around the world.
Spotlight Session 2: Telehealth in Music Therapy
Thursday, July 27, 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Ms. Natalie Jack, Prof. Katrien Foubert, Dr. Amy Clements-Cortes, Ms. Sarah Folsom, Dr. Allison Fuller

Katrien Foubert

Katrien Foubert
Music Therapist | Luca School of Arts
Prof. Dr. Foubert graduated as master violin at the Conservatoire de Bruxelles, and as master in music therapy at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium. She completed her PhD at the Faculty of the Arts, KU Leuven.
Foubert is head of research at the department of Music & Drama, and professor at the Bachelor/Master training course of music therapy at LUCA. She is also senior researcher at the Faculty of Medicine KU Leuven and works as clinical music therapist at the University Psychiatric Centre KU Leuven on a unit for patients with a personality disorder and autism spectrum disorder. Currently she is principal investigator of UNMUTED, a national funded multicenter research project to understand mechanisms of change in group-based improvisational music therapy for adults with autism spectrum disorder. She has generated highly relevant research in the field of mental health, clinical improvisation, and music therapy that has resulted in several national and European grants.

Amy Clements-Cortes

Dr. Amy Clements-Cortes
Assistant Professor | University of Toronto
Amy Clements-Cortes, PhD, RP, MTA, MT-BC is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto; credentialed Music Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist and a Fellow in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, and Neurologic Music Therapy. Amy has extensive clinical experience working with clients across the life span, with a specialty in mental health, dementia and palliative care. She has authored 50+ peer reviewed journal articles, multiple book chapters, co-edited 2 books, including “Relationship Completion in Palliative Care Music Therapy”, and provided 250 conference and/or invited academic presentations. Her research contributions have had a significant impact in the understanding of understudied phenomenon, resulting in excelled treatments provided by professionals in music and medicine. This includes: relationship completion for individuals at end-of-life, vibroacoustic therapy and singing protocols for persons diagnosed with dementia, as well as experiences in music therapy internships. Amy is the Managing Editor of the Music and Medicine Journal and Research and Ethics Chair of the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT). She is a former President of the World Federation of Music Therapy and the Canadian Association for Music Therapists, and serves on the editorial review boards for 9 International journals including the Journal of Alzheimer’s disease.

Allison Fuller

Allison Fuller
Music Therapist | Western Sydney University
Dr Allison Fuller PhD, RMT (AMTA), NMT Fellow (ANMT)
Allison (Al) has been a Registered Music Therapist (RMT) for almost 30 years, with practice focus areas including autism, hearing loss, complex needs, family-centred practice, culture-centred practice and technology within music therapy. Al heads up the Master of Creative Music Therapy program at Western Sydney University, and has completed her PhD in the use of visual supports within music therapy practice across face-to-face and telepractice platforms. The Fuller & McLeod (2019) publication on The Connected Music Therapy Teleintervention Approach (CoMTTA) and its application to family-centred programs for young children with hearing loss, was a timely offering to the profession published prior to the global pandemic. Al was the invited guest editor for the 2021 Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Music Therapy titled This is Australia… Online Music Therapy… Down Under… Telehealth approaches to music therapy within Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was an invited member of the Telehealth Special Interest Group for the IAMM Conference. Al’s recent research projects involve investigating online music therapy delivery by RMTs providing services within Western Sydney, utilising the ‘Elk LIVE Bridge’ technology; and the development of a parent coaching program for utilising music with children with hearing loss, including telepractice delivery. Al is a regular conference presenter at national and international conferences, and was awarded the Helen Shoemark Research Excellence Award for her conference presentation The Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA): Amplifying music therapy programs through the co-design integration of visual supports into practice at the 47th National Conference of the Australian Music Therapy Association.
Fuller, A. M. (2021). “This is Australia… Online Music Therapy… Down Under…” Telehealth approaches to music therapy within Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic [Editorial]. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 32(1), i-iv. https://www.austmta.org.au/public/151/files/AJMT/2021/Issue%201/2_%20AJMT%2032(1)%20-%20Fuller%20Editorial.pdf
Fuller, A.M. (2021). Introducing the Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA): Practice related considerations for visual design and production. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, Advance online publication. http://approaches.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Approaches_FirstView-a20210829-fuller.pdf
Fuller, A.M., Kaplun, C., & Short, A.E. (2021). The application of the Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA) within a group music therapy program. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 31(2), 153-175. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2021.1938642
Fuller, A.M., & Short, A.E. (2020). The utilisation of visual supports within music therapy practice in Australia: Listening and looking. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 31, 1-27. https://www.austmta.org.au/journal/article/utilisation-visual-supports-within-music-therapy-practice-australia-listening-and
Fuller, A.M., & McLeod, R.G. (2019). The Connected Music Therapy Teleintervention Approach (CoMTTA) and its application to family-centred programs for young children with hearing loss. Australian Journal of Music Therapy, 30, 12-30. https://www.austmta.org.au/journal/article/connected-music-therapy-teleintervention-approach-comtta-and-its-application-family
Short, A., MacRitchie, J., Fuller, A., Garrido, S., Smith, C., Peel, N., Hall, N. (2019). Sounding out: Music for health and wellbeing (white paper). Western Sydney University. https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1639564/RSCH5014_Music_and_Health_Web.pdf

Sarah Folsom

Sarah Folsom
Music Therapist | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sarah Folsom is a Board Certified Music Therapist, a member of the American Music Therapy Association and a trained Neurologic Music Therapist with the Robert F. Unkefer Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from New York University and a Master of Music Therapy from Colorado State University. Currently providing inpatient, outpatient and group music therapy as part of the Integrative Medicine department at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Sarah works with those affected by cancer to address symptoms related to their cancer journey.

Natalie Jack

Natalie Jack
Music Therapist | Successful Supervision
Natalie has been a Registered Music Therapist (RMT) with the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA) since 1999, having graduated from the University of Queensland with a graduate qualification in music therapy. Natalie lived in Canada for several years, becoming an Accredited Music Therapist (MTA) and Accredited Supervisor with the Canadian Association of Music Therapists. Natalie has presented widely at Australian and international conferences, been a guest lecturer at universities in both Australia and Canada, and served in various positions with both the Australian and Canadian music therapy associations. Natalie convened AMTA’s 2019 National Conference in Melbourne, she is currently a member of the AMTA’s Supervision Advisory Group and is the immediate past president of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association.
Natalie’s clinical interest is in working with offenders in the mental health space, and she has worked as the senior music therapist in maximum secure forensic mental health hospitals in both Canada and Australia. In 2015, she received her Master’s in Mental Health Science (Forensics & Community Mental Health) from Monash University, Melbourne. Natalie currently runs her own business providing supervision and professional development to health professionals across Australia and internationally, including her comprehensive supervisor training course, Successful Supervision.
Abstract
It will come as no surprise to WCMT delegates that this Spotlight Session on Telehealth In Music Therapy has been included in the program because of the intense focus the COVID-19 pandemic has put on infection control and safe health care practices since early 2020. In this session you will hear from five experienced clinicians and researchers about several areas of emerging telehealth music therapy practice from around the world. Included will be stories of the hurried transition and adaptation to telehealth practice in various clinical settings, including for patients of a cancer treatment centre in the USA, details of technological advances made over the last three years that are used to deliver both synchronous and asynchronous music therapy via telehealth in Australia, research out of Canada with participants from 29 countries that strives to understand the benefits, challenges, experiences and perceptions of telehealth music therapy so it can be used to help clients into the future, and how, during a time of great stress and transition, telehealth supervision and online professional development helped support music therapists across the world. Included in this session will be case examples, vignettes, video excerpts, data, reflections, descriptions, research ideas and future thinking, from a respected group of international music therapists who look forward to sharing their work and connecting with you throughout this Spotlight Session.
Spotlight Session 3: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Music Therapy
Friday, July 28, 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Dr Cynthia Bruce, Dr. Carolyn Shaw, Dr. Sue Baines, Dr. Indra Selvarajah, Assoc. Prof. Noemi Ansay

Noemi Ansay

Assoc. Prof. Noemi Ansay
Associate Professor | University of The State of Parana (UNESPAR)
Noemi Nascimento Ansay is associate professor of Music Therapy at the University of the State of Parana (UNESPAR) Brazil, where she teaches undergraduate courses in Music Therapy. She is a professor of professional Master’s Degree in Inclusive Education in a National Network (PROFEI). Currently she is the head of the Faculty of Arts of UNESPAR. She is member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research in Music Therapy. Noemi works at the Parana State Council for the Rights of People with Disabilities (COEDE) and is Member of the University Commission for Native – CUIA – UNESPAR. She received her Bachelor degree in Music Therapy from the Faculty of Arts of Paraná in 1992. She has a specialization course in Psychopedagogy from Tuiuti University. Noemi completed her master (2009) and PhD in Education (2016) at Federal University of Parana. She worked as editor-in-chief of Brazilian Journal of Music Therapy (Revista Brasileira de Musicoterapia) from 2010 to 2014 and also Incantare Journal from 2018 to 2020. She worked at the Scientific Department of the Associação Paranaense de Musicoterapia, from 2010 to 2016. She has worked in the field of Music Therapy and special and inclusive education, particulary with deaf people, for more than 30 years.

Carolyn Shaw

Carolyn Shaw
Music Therapist | Victoria University of Wellington: The New Zealand School of Music, Te Kōkī
Dr Carolyn Shaw (she/her) is a New Zealand Registered Music Therapist, supervisor, disability advocate, and teaching fellow at the New Zealand School of Music, Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa. Since graduating in 2007, she has worked predominantly with children, adolescence, and their families in multiple areas of practice, such as, education, mental health, disability, rehabilitation, and palliative care. Carolyn believes in the importance of ongoing research and learning, and this is reflected in the subjects she teaches at university (music therapy research methods and supervising postgraduate students’ research projects). Carolyn is passionate about disability advocacy and in addressing ableism through her writing, research and practice. Her PhD study developed ‘Post Ableist Music Therapy’ to help make this a central focus in her work. She draws on critical approaches, posthumanism and disability studies. Carolyn has been involved in Music Therapy New Zealand council, the standards of practice working party NZ, and is an article editor for ‘Voices: a world forum for music therapy’.

Sue Baines

Dr. Sue Baines
Music Therapist | Capilano University
Sue Baines, PhD, MTA, FAMI, is respectfully grateful to live and learn on the unceded territories of the Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations on Turtle Island. She is a feminist, a social justice activator, and an anti-oppressive music therapist. Sue earned her BMus from University of Calgary, Alberta, Honours BMT from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, MA in music therapy from New York University, New York, and PhD in music therapy and social justice from University of Limerick, Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Association of Music and Imagery and is certified by the Canadian Association of Music Therapists. Her education and international experience have informed her research and resulting publications. Sue has practiced music therapy for over three decades and has extensive music therapy experience working with many kinds of people in many different settings. She has taught in the Bachelor of Music Therapy program at Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC, Canada since 1997, and been a field supervisor since 1995. Sue works on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Canadian Association of Music Therapists and is on the editorial review board for the Arts in Psychotherapy Journal.

Indra Selvarajah

Indra Selvarajah
Lecturer | Universiti Putra Malaysia
Indra Selvarajah is Malaysia’s first PhD qualified Medical Music Therapist, and teaches Music Therapy & Music Psychology at the UPM Department of Music. She is the Founding President of the Malaysian Music Therapy Association and current Chair of the Global Crises Intervention Commission for the World Federation of Music Therapy.

Cynthia Bruce

Dr. Cynthia Bruce
Assistant Professor and Graduate Music Therapy Programs Coordinator | Concordia University
Cynthia Bruce is an Assistant Professor and coordinator of Music Therapy programs at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. As a blind activist scholar working at the intersection of Critical Disability Studies, Music Therapy, and education, she works to mobilize lived disability knowledge to expose systemic inequity and formulate more just approaches to research and practice. She focuses on accessibility in higher education and on self-advocacy as essential lived knowledge that can generate deep understandings of inequity and elucidate possibilities for progressive change. Dr. Bruce has collaborated with all levels of government to implement accessibility legislation and ratify international disability rights agendas, and she continues to consult with government and community organizations on accessibility and disability rights. Cynthia has served as both Vice-President and Ethics Chair for the Canadian Association of Music Therapists and as President of The Atlantic Association for Music Therapy. She is the current vice-chair of the education standard development committee and a collaborator with the Canadian Accessibility Network.
Her current work aims to bring Critical Disability Studies and disability justice to the centre of intersectional social justice work in Music Therapy and post-secondary accessibility. Cynthia’s teaching and research activities intentionally amplify the under-represented voices of disabled scholars and practitioners and position the lived experience of disability as a vital source of knowledge that can support explorations of ableist normativity and its capacity to shape relationships between disabled people, their music, and the profession. Disability Studies has much to offer contemporary efforts to analyze and expose, in the context of equity and social justice initiatives, how normative ideals have restricted entry into therapeutic professions through narrow constructions of competence. Cynthia, therefore, works to situate disability as valued diversity through examinations of ableism and dis/ableism and their presence in the everyday practices and priorities of music therapy and post-secondary education in Canada and abroad.
Abstract
For minoritized and allied music therapists around the world, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in music therapy is more than an up-and-coming topic to be highlighted and explored. as we consider how to foster just futures within oppressive global systems that continually perpetrate normative colonial violence in the name of individual and institutional health and well-being, It is nothing less than a political imperative. In this spotlight panel discussion, we come together as leaders, innovators, and committed activists to generate meaningful discussion about how music therapists can support necessary systemic transformation that will move our profession and our communities away from deficit-oriented and pathologizing responses to human difference. We will share, from our social, political, and geographic locations, how we are already doing this important work; and we will call others to engage in the kind of disruptive action that will foster belonging within the profession, institutions, and communities.
Spotlight Session 4: The Future of Music and Music Therapy in Healthcare
Saturday, July 29, 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Mr. Charles-Antoine Thibeault, Asst. Prof. Rihab Jebali, Mrs Jennifer Buchanan, Ms. Kezia Putri

Rihab Jebali

Assoc. Prof. Rihab Jebali
Associate Professor | WFMT
Rihab Jebali, PhD and Assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Special education, Founding president of the National Association of Music Therapy, and Memeber of the clinical practice commission of the WFMT, and a Memeber of the Afro-Asiatic Federation of Art Therapy. Dr.Jebali Rihab has been working,since 2009 to promot and develop Music Therapy in her country and Maghreb countries through organising symposiums, and trainings, Music therapy courses in collaboration with Music therapy Institute (Nantes), and other partner of the region.Dr.Jebali has also worked on the launch of the professional Master s degree in Music Therapy, wich was launched on 2020, between the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse and thr Higher Institute of Music, and she is preparing with Memebers of the National music therapy association and medecin partners, and hospitals a large projects after signing a partenership agreement with the ministry of health of Tunisia.

Jennifer Buchanan

Jennifer Buchanan
President | JB Music Therapy
Jennifer Buchanan is the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Music Therapists, has been instrumental in the implementation of hundreds of music therapy programs throughout Canada since 1991 through JB Music Therapy, and is the author of several books including ‘Wellness, Wellplayed: The Power of A Playlist’.
She is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences that aim to strengthen and inspire people serving in healthcare, education, and the public sector including law enforcement.
As a board member and service provider with the National Music Centre, Jennifer champions music for health and wellness throughout Canada and beyond.

Kezia Putri

Kezia Putri
Lecturer | Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
Kezia Karnila Putri is an Indonesian music therapist. She attained her undergraduate degree in music therapy concentration from Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia in 2016. She later graduated from the MMT program at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2019. She returned to Indonesia to join the faculty of art at Universitas Pelita Harapan as a lecturer and music therapy coordinator in 2020. As the music therapy department coordinator, she regularly meets with a wide variety of stakeholders, conducts music therapy-related events and collaborative projects. She is currently involved in the creation of Indonesia’s first music therapy association. In her practice in Indonesia, she mainly works with adults with mental health concerns, seniors, and international refugees. She is also interested in exploring the potential of Indonesian traditional instruments for therapeutic purposes, as well as the concept of music and medicine within Indonesian native culture.

Charles-Antoine Thibeault

Charles-Antoine Thibeault
Music Therapist | Concordia University
Charles-Antoine Thibeault is a music therapist in social pediatrics and a PhD student in social work. He graduated with a Master’s in music therapy from Concordia University where he currently teaches as part-time faculty. His work centres around questions of gender, trans-ness, youth and families.

Kimberley Wade

Kimberley Wade
President | JB Music Therapy
Kimberley is a Clinical Director and a Registered Neurologic Music Therapist. She is also the Founder of Southern Music Therapy, a Private Music Therapy Practice in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2007 Kimberley completed her Masters in Music Therapy in Wellington. She has worked in a variety of disability settings including special education, aged care, and adult mental health. After gaining some confidence within the profession, Kimberley felt drawn to working clinically with people with neurological conditions and especially people with communication impairments. She received further training in Neurologic Music Therapy, vocal psychotherapy as well as continuing courses in music and neuroscience, and communication specific courses.
She has a real drive to inspire people to use music to assist in ‘finding their voice’; encouraging them to communicate, express themselves and reach their potential. Kimberley has a talent for establishing new music therapy contracts and educating people on the benefits of music in the rehabilitation and community settings. 2021, Kimberley was presented with one of the New Zealander of year, Local Hero Awards, for her work in Canterbury. Both for establishing her own private practice offering music therapy sessions for people with disabilities as well as co-founding the Cantabrainers Choir.
Abstract
In the past few years, the nature of healthcare around the world has changed. Tele-health has moved healthcare beyond facility walls and reached individuals homes. Health is getting more and more inclusive of mental health. A desire to find collectivity after the last years of isolation is ever so present. Panelists Jennifer Buchanan, Ryhab Jebali, Karen de Rock and Kezia Putri will discuss how tele-health, mental health and collective health impact music therapy practices in healthcare settings.