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Yasmine A. Iliya

Yasmine A. Iliya

Music Adjunct Faculty

Music and Performing Arts Professions

yai202@nyu.edu

Yasmine A. Iliya, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT, is an adjunct faculty member in the music therapy graduate programs at NYU Steinhardt and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. She currently maintains her own private psychotherapy practice. Yasmine has a bachelor’s degree in biological psychology from Tufts University and a master’s degree in music therapy from NYU Steinhardt. She received her doctorate in expressive therapies from Lesley University, where her research focused on using improvisational singing to help adults with complicated grief maintain a bond with their deceased loved ones.  

Yasmine worked as a therapist for seven years in inpatient and outpatient psychiatry units at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. She is trained in Austin Vocal Psychotherapy and is also a Fellow in Thanatology through the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Her research and clinical interests are in using the voice to help individuals heal from loss and trauma. She also traveled to Jordan in 2017 with UNICEF and Music as a Global Resource to help establish a pilot music therapy program for Syrian refugee children at Azraq Refugee Camp.

In addition to her teaching and clinical duties, she maintains an active performing career as a singer in New York City.

Selected Publications

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2020). Singing an imaginal dialogue with a deceased loved one. In E. C. Carpenter & A. Redcay (Eds.), Working with grief and traumatic loss: Theory, practice, personal reflection, and self-care (pp. 53-56). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.
  • Iliya, Y. A., & Harris, B. T. (2015).  Singing an imaginal dialogue: A qualitative examination of a bereavement intervention. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/08098131.2015.1044259
  • Iliya, Y. A. (2015). Singing for connection after loss. In S. L. Brooke & D. A. Miraglia (Eds.), Using the creative therapies to cope with grief and loss (pp. 197-209). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
  • Iliya, Y. A. (2015). Singing an imaginal dialogue. In R. Neimeyer (Ed.), Techniques of grief therapy: Assessment and intervention (series in death, dying, and bereavement) (pp. 236-238). New York, NY: Routledge. 
  • Iliya, Y. A. (2015). Music therapy as grief therapy for adults with mental illness and complicated grief: A pilot study. Death Studies. 39(3), 173-184.
  • Iliya, Y. A. (2014). Singing an imaginal dialogue: A study of a bereavement-specific music therapy intervention. (Doctoral dissertation, Lesley University).

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2014). The purpose and importance of personal creativity for creative arts therapists. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 5(1), 109-115. DOI: 10.1385/jaah5.1.109_1.

  • Iliya, Y.A. (2011). Singing for healing and hope: Music therapy methods using the voice with individuals who are homeless and mentally ill. Music Therapy Perspectives, 29(1), 14-22. 

     

    Selected Presentations

  • Iliya, Y. A., Neimeyer, R., & Thompson, B. (2015, April). Singing an imaginal dialogue. Pre-recorded lecture presented during daylong workshop on expressive arts therapies and grief at National Conference of Association for Death Counseling and Education, San Antonio, TX. 

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2014, September). Singing an imaginal dialogue: Maintaining the continuing bond with your loved one using words and music. Lecture and workshop taught at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2014, April). Music therapy as grief therapy for adults with mental illness and complicated grief: A pilot study. Paper presented at National Conference of Association for Death Counseling and Education, Baltimore, MD. 

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2014, February). Using the voice in creative arts therapy: Theory, practice, and research. Lecture and workshop taught at Institute for the Arts in Psychotherapy, New York, NY.

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2013, July). Music therapy as grief therapy for adults with mental illness and complicated grief: A pilot study. Presentation given at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. 

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2012, February). Music therapy practice and theory. Lecture taught at SUNY Dutchess College, Poughkeepsie, NY.

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2011, November). Understanding music, emotions, and the brain. Paper presented at National Conference of the American Music Therapy Association, Atlanta, GA. 

  • Iliya, Y. A. (2011, November). Understanding music, emotions, and the brain. Paper presented at National Expressive Therapies Summit, New York, NY.