Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
People - Music Therapy

Music Therapy Faculty: Diane Austin

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Diane Austin is a music psychotherapist in private practice with offices in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, New York. Dr. Austin is the executive director of the Music Psychotherapy Center, where she offers advanced training in Vocal Psyotherapy for music therapists. She is also a senior faculty member in the graduate music therapy program at New York University, where she teaches vocal improvisation, leads music therapy groups and supervises students in the program.

Founder and Director of the Music Therapy Program for Adolescents in Foster Care at Turtle Bay Music School, Dr. Austin co-created the educational film "Life Songs: Adolescent Girls in Foster Care." Widely published, she lectures and teaches around the world, integrating the theories and ideas from Depth Psychology with the practice of music therapy and the use of the voice in the therapeutic process.

Currently on the Board of Directors for the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Therapy Outreach Program, Dr. Austin has just completed a pilot program in collaboration with the orchestra at Maimonides Hospital. She has also served as Vice President and a member of the executive board of The American Association for Music Therapy for six years. She chaired three conferences, was an assembly delegate for The American Music Therapy Association and a member of The Scientific Committees for both the 7th and the 8th World Congresses of Music Therapy.

Before starting her private practice, Dr. Austin worked with a wide variety of populations, including developmentally delayed children, women in prison, battered women and children, psychiatric adults and elderly psychiatric/alcoholic patients. Please visit Dr. Austin's website at: www.dianeaustin.com

 

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