Introducing Dr. Sangeeta Swamy- Music Therapy
Intro to Music Therapy at LSM
As an increasing number of LSM alumni go on to pursue Music Therapy as a major and career, including several from the Class of 2020, LSM will now provide a way for high school students to learn more about using their gifts to serve in this important and growing profession. For many years, LSM students have expressed a desire and curiosity to learn more about the practice of Music Therapy and we are thrilled that LSM will be a place for high school musicians to pursue this interest!
About Dr. Sangeeta Swamy
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Sangeeta Swamy to the LSM Faculty to teach Intro to Music Therapy at the LSM Winter Session as well as LSM 2021!
Dr. Sangeeta Swamy is Assistant Professor and Director of Music Therapy at Valparaiso University, where she teaches music therapy courses, violin, and viola. An award-winning violinist, licensed psychotherapist, and Board-Certified Music Therapist, she has worked with children, teens and adults for over twenty-five years.
As a music therapy educator, she specializes in culturally responsive music therapy practice, supervision, and pedagogy. She has taught at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Lesley University, and Molloy College, where she supervised expressive arts therapy and music therapy interns and taught core expressive arts and music therapy undergraduate and graduate courses. She has also lectured nationally and internationally, and has published in Music Therapy Perspectives, the New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy, and in peer reviewed chapters. She is currently the co-editor of The Handbook of Music Therapy, to be published by Routledge in 2019. She also has Level II training in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music and has studied shamanism with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Through her research with Indian adults, she developed Culturally Centered Music and Imagery (CCMI), the first qualitative, music-centered technique for assessing ethnic identity.
Learn more about Dr. Swamy by reading her Full Bio!