Faculty members

Status: Full-Time Tenure-Track

Research areas: Her research projects prioritize the resilience and knowledge of targeted groups, and current research focuses on using a Nervous-System Informed Theatre of the Oppressed to support educators to address racial and ethnic microaggressions in higher education classroom settings. Other research includes working with activists from various marginalized groups, newcomers, and LGBT2SIQ communities.

Research areas: digital well-being, Resource-oriented music therapy, music as a health resource, telehealth music therapy, music therapy with caregivers, music technology in clinical practice and education, socially engaged art practices, philosophical inquiry,

Research areas: Accessibility; Post-Secondary Education; Music Therapy Education; Critical Disability Studies

Research areas: Drama therapy, trauma, attachment, research-creation, performed autoethnography, psychoanalysis, ethnography, embodied knowledge, play therapy, family therapy, parenting, experimental theater, theater for social change, arts-based learning, risk factors/ protective factors, borderline personality disorder, child and youth care, suicide intervention, mental health, pedagogy

Research areas: mental health, art therapy, arts-based learning, life transitions, youth development, lifespan developmental, self esteem, anger, anxiety and stress, parenting, family therapy, trauma, mind/body, grief and bereavement, peer relationships, couple therapy, child therapy, child and youth care, child development

Research areas: music therapy, music, social gerontology, community, advocacy, social justice, cultural competence, Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, integral thinking, aging (ageing), disability, singing, palliative care, dementia, autism, health and well being, mental health, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, bereavement