Noa Fort, MA, LCAT, MT-BC is a licensed creative arts therapist and a board certified music psychotherapist. Ms. Fort is faculty member at New York University and Long Island University.
Noa received her master’s degree in Music Psychotherapy at New York University and her Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She is also a recording artist and performing vocalist/pianist/composer. Integrating her therapy approach with her years of experience as an active musician,
Noa believes in the power of music to support one’s journey to health, as well as its power to promote social change. She integrates improvisation, songwriting, song analyzing, active listening, body awareness and mindfulness in her work.
Noa works with individuals and groups of all ages and backgrounds. She developed a music therapy program at the Brookdale Hospital Psychiatric ward, did outreach and onsite work for the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music with youth at risk, adults with developmental disabilities and individuals with autism, and facilitated individual song writing sessions as well as music therapy groups for survivors of sexual assault as part of the Angel Band Project.
As a two times recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Brooklyn Arts Fund she created a series of free concerts throughout Brooklyn, including in a transitional home for unhoused people and in community gardens. Firmly believing that finding and expressing your voice is a healing force, Noa’s therapeutic philosophy is rooted in the belief that healing is a communal process and that social justice is part of groups’ and individuals’ journey to growth and health