Board members

Brian Abrams (he/him), Ph.D., MT-BC, LCAT, Analytical Music Therapist and Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, has been a music therapist since 1995, with experience across a wide range of clinical contexts. He currently serves as Professor of Music and as Graduate Program Coordinator of Music Therapy at Montclair State University, and has previously held music therapy faculty positions at both Immaculata University and Utah State University. He has published and presented internationally on a wide range of topics such as music therapy in cancer care, music psychotherapy, music therapy and transgenerational trauma, humanistic music therapy, and the interdisciplinary area of health humanities (including as one among several authors of the text, Health Humanities, published by Palgrave Macmillan). He has also contributed to the establishment of several medical music therapy programs. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, such as Music Therapy Perspectives, the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. He has also served on the Board of Directors and (through the present) on the Assembly of Delegates of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), as well as on the Executive Board and as President of the Mid-Atlantic Region of AMTA. Currently, he serves as member and vice-chair of the New Jersey Board of Creative Arts and Activities Therapies.

Brian T Harris, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT is co-executive director of Harris and Long Psychotherapy. He holds a PhD in Expressive Therapies and is a faculty member at New York University and a core faculty member of the Kint Institute’s creative arts therapy and trauma certificate program.

Dr. Harris is the past head of the Pavarotti Music Center’s music therapy department in Mostar, Bosnia and past consultant to UNICEF in development of music therapy initiatives for Syrian refugee children in Jordan. He is co- editor of the book Creative Arts Therapies and the LGBTQ Community in addition to numerous other publications. Dr. Harris is a trained Advanced Vocal Psychotherapist and Analytical Music Therapist and is the former president of the International Association of Analytical Music Therapy. He has worked for over 25 years with a diverse range of clients.

Seung-A Kim Jung, PhD, LCAT, MT-BC, is the Chairperson of the Music Department, a Professor as well as the Coordinator, Blended Learning Analytical Music Therapy Training Program at Molloy University, NY. 

I received my PhD in Music Therapy at Temple University in 2010 and currently hold credentials as a New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) and as a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC). I have been practicing in the field since 1997 and have specialized in Analytical Music Therapy (AMT) since 2005.  I have worked with clients who have developmental disabilities, ASD, cultural adjustment difficulties, trauma, stress and depressive symptoms, Alzheimer’s disease, and neurological problems in a variety of clinical settings (i.e., day treatment center, assisted living center, rehabilitation center, community center, conservatory setting, university based clinic, and private practice).

In addition, I have taught undergraduate and graduate classes and supervised music therapy interns as an on-site and academic supervisor. In addition, I developed a music therapy program for Korean-American immigrant families in NY, organized meetings for the Korean Alliance of Licensed Creative Arts Therapy, and offered Creative Arts Therapy workshops to the Korean community. Currently, I am on the Esther Ha Foundation Board, a non-profit mental health organization, where I collaborate with mental health professionals in the community.  Also, I am on the International Association for Analytical Music Therapy (IAAMT)

My research specialties include Analytical Music Therapy (AMT), Analytical Music Therapy Oriented Supervision (AMTOS), Culturally Informed Music Therapy (CIMT)m and stress management and wellness. I am the author of several chapters in peer-reviewed scholarly publications and have been invited to present nationally and internationally at various conferences. I am the co-editors of the book, Music Therapy in a Multicultural Context: A Handbook for Music Therapy Students and Professionals. As a professional musician, I have performed in several concerts and I have served as an accompanist for church choirs NY, and have organized and conducted youth group ensembles at various events.

Juliane Kowski, LCAT, MT-BC, MA Analytical Music therapist, trained by Benedikte Scheiby. She is also a board-certified music therapist and Licensed Creative Arts therapist, NY.  Her professional career spans 27 years of experience working with children, youth, families and adults in psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, group homes, substance abuse programs, mental health agencies, wilderness programs and private practices in New York City, Jackson Hole, Wy., and now, the San Francisco Bay area.  She is a trained jazz singer and voice teacher, and uses that background to deepen the connections of vocal psychotherapy in her AMT practice.

Currently, Juliane works at UCSF, Langley Porter, Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital with adults in San Francisco and in her private practice, "Music Connects" (http://www.musicconnects.net) in Berkeley, CA, working with children, families and adults suffering from trauma, grief and loss. Juliane is also an AMT trainer and supervisor for the  Blended Learning Analytical Music Theray Certification Program at Molloy University, Long Island, NY.

She has been published with her AMT work in known music therapy teaching literature and frequently teaches at Northern Pacific University, Molloy University as well as offering workshops about AMT for mental health agencies around the Bay area. In her spare time she derives great joy performing locally with professional jazz musicians, and records and produces her original music.

Audrey Morse, MA, MT-BC, LCAT is an Analytical Music Therapist trained by Benedikte Scheiby.  A graduate of NYU’s music therapy program, she completed her internship at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF), where her music therapy groups were observed by Dr. Oliver Sacks during his research for his book “Musicophilia.”  She worked with a geriatric population with dementia on the special care unit of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale and assisted with music therapy research at IMNF. She was a Senior Creative Arts Therapist at Roosevelt Hospital / Mount Sinai West Hospital on its inpatient psychiatric unit for 13 years where she supervised Master’s degree music therapy students from NYU.

Audrey presented on AMT at Molloy University, the Expressive Arts Therapy Summit, New York University, Lesley University, the Mid-Atlantic region of AMTA, and at the World Congress of Music Therapy. Her writing on AMT appears in Scheiby’s chapter “Analytical music therapy” in Barbara Wheeler’s Music Therapy Handbook, Guildford Publications, 2015, and in Scheiby’s chapter “Music, the key to survival, consciousness, and transformation” in Johannes Eschen’s book Zu den Anfängen der Musiktherapie in Deutchland, L. Reichert, pub., 2010.

Audrey has a private practice in New York City and completed psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.  She is a violinist and composer and is the co-concertmaster of the Greenwich Village Orchestra.  She is privileged to have met Mary Priestley on three occasions at her home in London. Shortly before she passed away, Priestley gave Audrey a drum that had been given by her mentor, Juliette Alvin. Priestley asked Audrey to make sure the drum continues to be played in AMT sessions in the future.

Audrey is a founding member of IAAMT and is the current president of the IAAMT board.