Guylaine Vaillancourt, PhD, MTA

Education

• Ph. D. in Leadership and Change in the Profession, Antioch University, OH (2009)
• MA (Music Therapy), New York University (1993)
• BA (Music/Music Therapy), Université du Québec à Montréal (1990).
• Training in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music. Creative Arts Therapy Institute, New York (1994)
• Level 1 training in Mandala (MARI) (1994)
• DEC (Nursing), CEGEP de Sherbrooke (1978)

Professional affiliations

• Association canadienne des musicothérapeutes/Canadian Association of Music Therapists
• Association québécoise de musicothérapie
• Association for Music and Imagery
• Association for Music and Medicine
• American Dance Therapy Association/Danse Movement Therapy Association in Canada

Research interests / expertise

• Partnership Development Networking project to create a network of partners for development of Creative arts therapies practicum sites in the community; to offer services to populations with psychological and physical distresses who have very limited access to creative arts therapies; develop professional jobs/employment in Creative Arts Therapies (art, drama, music) in Quebec.
• Research interests include: Mentoring, Community music therapy, Building partnership networking, Mental Health, Peace and social justice through music; Arts-based research and Participatory action-research
• Concordia Arts in Health Center faculty member
• Arts in Health Research Collective 
• https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/creative-arts-therapies/research/ahrc.html

About

Guylaine Vaillancourt is an Associate Professor in music therapy and the Chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies. She is a certified music therapist (MTA) by the Canadian Association of Music Therapists and has extensive clinical experience in oncology/palliative care, mental health, and in private practice, as well as in internship supervision. Since 1978, she has worked as a registered nurse in Intensive Care Unit and Dialysis while training and working in music therapy as well. Prior to coming to Concordia, she was an adjunct teacher in music therapy at Université du Québec à Montréal (2001-2008) and Université de Montréal (2008). Her research interests relate to community music therapy, mentoring apprentice music therapists, and medical music therapy where she privileges arts-based research and participatory action research. She has worked in Switzerland, Venezuela and United States and has taught in Cuba and Martinique.She is past President of the Canadian Association of Music Therapists (2009-2011) and of Association québécoise de musicothérapie (2003-2009). She is a fellow and a Primary Trainer of The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and was a North-American co-editor for VOICES: A World Forum for Music Therapy (2005-2013). She is a past French co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy/Revue canadienne de musicothérapie. Finally she has presented regularly at national and international conferences and is the author of Musique,musicothérapie et développement de l'enfant (Éditions du CHU Sainte-Justine) translated in Italian, Spanish,and English.

Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy- MTHY 301: Introduction to Music Therapy

Master Degree - MTHY 693. Research in Music Therapy

(2018-2020) Un pas à la fois. FRQ-Audace grant with the Grands Ballets Canadiens/Centre national de danse-thérapie, co-researcher with researchers from Concordia U., McGill U., Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal.

(2011) Children’s Right to Music/Le droit des enfants à la musique. Canadian Heritage/Human Rights Grant. Primary investigator: Dr. Sandi Curtis. Role: Collaborator.

(2012) 38th Canadian Association for Music Therapy Conference Research Symposium. Montreal. Aids to Related Research Events-Concordia.

(2011) Developing partnership with Université Paul Valery Montpellier III, France. Strategic International Partnership Seed Funding-Concordia.

(2010) Translation of the book Musique, musicothérapie et développement de l’enfant from French to English: Music, music therapy and child development. Editions CHU Sainte-Justine. Aids to Related Research Events-Concordia.

(2009) Partnership Networking Development. Faculty Research Development Program-Concordia.

External reviewer

• Past French co-editor for the Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music therapy (2015-19)
• Co-editor for North America and Reviewer (2005-2013)
  VOICES: A Word Forum for Music Therapy.

Vaillancourt, G., Brault, A. Étude qualitative auprès d’un groupe de musicothérapie virtuel avec des proches aidants en santé mentale. (in progress)

Vaillancourt, G., Peyrin, J., Brault, A., Thibeault, C-A., Gosselin, N. (2022). Personalized Audio Montage: Impact of a Receptive Music Therapy Method-Variation on Youth Experiencing Homelessness. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.

Vaillancourt, G. (2022). Devenir musicothérapeute et le demeurer : un parcours unique à chaque musicothérapeute. Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy.

Brault, A., Vaillancourt, G. (2022). Group telehealth music therapy with caregivers: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of Patient Experience, 9, 1-9.

Archambault, K., Vaugon, K., Deumié, V., Brault, M., Perez, R.M., Peyrin, J., Vaillancourt, G., Garel, P. (2019). MAP: A Personalized Receptive Music Therapy Intervention to Improve the Affective Well-being of Youths Hospitalized in a Mental Health Unit. Journal of Music Therapy, 56(4):381-402.

Vaillancourt, G. (2017). Musicothérapie et santé mentale : l’expérience de musicothérapeutes québécois. Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 23, 1.

Vaillancourt, G. (2016). When the client is a music therapist. Experiencing five approaches to music psychotherapy. Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 22, 1.

Vaillancourt, G., DaCosta, D., Han, E., Lipski, G. (2016). An intergenerational singing group: a community music therapy research and graduate students mentoring initiative. VOICES: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 18, 1.

Vaillancourt, G. (Ed.). L’héritage de Josée Préfontaine, musicothérapeute et mentor : La formation à la musicothérapie, thèse de doctorat. VOICES.

Curtis, S. & Vaillancourt, G. (2012). The Children’s Right to Music Project. VOICES: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 12, 3.

Vaillancourt, G. (2012). Music therapy: A community approach to social justice. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 39, 173-178.

Vaillancourt, G. (2012). Une musicothérapeute en musicothérapie : ou quand la cliente est une musicothérapeute! Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 18, 1, 8-25.

Vaillancourt, G. (2011). Creating an apprenticeship music therapy model through arts-based research. VOICES: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 11.

Vaillancourt, G. (2007). La musicothérapie dans un hôpital francophone pour enfants : une pratique à développer! Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 13(1), 38-52.

Vaillancourt, G. (2007). Multicultural music therapy as an instrument for leadership: Listening–vision–process. VOICES: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 7(2).

Vaillancourt, G. (2003). La musicothérapie pour apprivoiser la douleur. Revue canadienne de musicothérapie/Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 10(1), 33-43.

Selected Conferences

Vaillancourt, G., Brault, A., Thibeault, C-A. (2019). Une approche innovatrice auprès de jeunes adultes en situation de grande précarité : la détente psychomusicale en musicothérapie réceptive. 45th Canadian Association of Music Therapists Conference, Gatineau, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. & Young, L. (2018). The Bonny Method of GIM: an invaluable resource for music therapists. 44th Canadian Association of Music Therapists Conference, St-John’s, NL.

Baines, S., DaCosta, D., Vaillancourt, G. (2017). Growing music therapy research in Canada. 43rd Canadian Association of Music Therapists Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Vaillancourt, G. (September 2016). The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music in Canada. 12th European Guided Imagery and Music Conference, Athens, Greece.

Bradt, J. and coll. (July 2016). Authors’ Roundtable: Scientific Writing, Peer Review, and Publication across Journals. 10th European Music Therapy Conference, Vienna, Austria.

Vaillancourt, G. & Young, L. (2015). GIM: To be or not to be psychotherapy? 23rd International Conference of the Association for Music and Imagery, Elizabeth, NJ, United States.

Vaillancourt, G. (March 2014). Séminaire Musicothérapie en soins palliatifs. Université Paul Valéry III, Montpellier, France.

Vaillancourt, G. (January 2014). Guided Imagery and Music in oncology. Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine/Converging Disciplines at the Crossroads of Cancer Care, New York City, United States.

Vaillancourt, G. (November 2013). La musicothérapie: une approche à découvrir! Music for Children, Carl Orff Canada Musique pour enfants chapitre du Québec (Orff-Québec), Montréal, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (October 2013). La musicothérapie pour les personnes atteintes de cancer. Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval, Programme québécois de dépistage du cancer du sein, Laval, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (July 2013). Musicoterapia: Un Enfoque Comunitario sobre la Justicia Social. V Congreso Latinoamericano de Musicoterapia, Sucre, Bolivia.

Vaillancourt, G. (June 2013). Music Therapy in medicine. Sigma Theta Tau (STT) Gamma Delta Chapter, Plattsburgh, NY, United States.

Vaillancourt, G. (May 2013). Les médiations thérapeutiques aujourd'hui. Université du Québec à Montréal/Département de psychologie, Montréal, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (April 2013). La musicothérapie: diminuer les effets secondaires reliés aux traitements. 5e Conférence nationale de la lutte contre le cancer, Montréal, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (March 2013). Ateliers de musicothérapie pour les enfants et familles. Centre des sciences de Montréal, Montréal, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (November 2012). Créativité, improvisation en musicothérapie et apprentissage de la musique. Congrès international du Groupe de recherche en pédagogie instrumentale et musicale (GRePIM), Québec, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (June 2012). La musique au terme de la vie. Music Care Conference, Fredericton, NB.

Curtis, S., Vaillancourt, G., Young, L. (May 2012). Research in Music Therapy at Concordia/La recherche en musicothérapie. 38th Canadian Association for Music Therapy Conference, Montréal, QC.

Curtis, S. & Vaillancourt, G. (February 2012). Séminaire Le droit des enfants à la musique. Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

Vaillancourt, G. (November 2011). Devenir musicothérapeute. Congrès de la Fédération des musiciens éducateurs du Québec, Montréal, QC

Selected awards