Music Therapy Clinician: Supporting reflective clinical practice Volume 1 | Page 5
Gillian Zambor, MSc MT-BC, Associate Editor
New Beginnings
Thank you for stopping by, and
welcome to the Music Therapy
Clinician!
Our team was established at the end of
2014, Skype meetings commenced
and articles began to come our way.
We then made the decision to shift the
format of the traditional New Jersey
Association for Music Therapy
newsletter and create an online,
accessible journal-come-e-zine. Out
with the old and in with the 21st
century!
We envision the Music Therapy
Clinician having a clinical yet creative
focus: for and by music therapists. We
envision it to be interactive and a
welcoming platform on which we can
share, grow and develop with each
other. In this rapidly changing digital
era, and for the busy music therapist
always on the go, we also aspired to
make it virtual and easily accessible
online. Despite the presence of so
many fantastic websites, blogs and
journals around the world dedicated to
music therapy, surprisingly there are
minimal opportunities to enable the
practicing music therapist to publish
clinical articles reflecting on their own
personal experiences and viewpoints.
We want to inspire you to write and
share these with us; perhaps learn
about a population you are not so
familiar with; listen to others’ opinions;
or gain new ideas for the population
with whom you work. Too many of us
don’t know all the wonderful work that
is happening in the growing world of
music therapy. Let us help you to hear
about it and spread the word!
While we were establishing the
inaugural issue, we noticed the theme
of birth and new beginnings began to
evolve.
This theme also draws
parallels for me on both a personal and
professional level, being a brand new
member of the music therapy
community in this country having
emigrated from Scotland in 2013. So
as my new American journey was
beginning, so was that of the Music
Therapy Clinician! I have been so
grateful
for
the
friendliness,
enthusiasm and true dedication of
music therapists at local, regional and
national events and projects I have
attended and been involved with since
my move here. I look forward to both
furthering
connections
and
establishing new ones in the future,
both stateside and internationally. I am
proud of the camaraderie in our field
worldwide, and the Music Therapy
Clinician team would feel honored to
help to develop and nourish that. It is
a huge privilege to serve in this way
and to contribute to published work
from New Jersey and beyond.
We would like to thank all our
contributors and reviewers for making
this inaugural issue happen, and to
YOU, the reader, for reading it. We
also look forward to receiving your
feedback on this issue, as well as
future contributions for our next issue.
Happy reading!
Contact Gillian
[email protected]
Ellen de Havilland, MT-BC, Design Editor
Designing Woman
It all started out of a necessity to get
the job done. Without any seed
money to get a music therapy
business rolling, I was forced to be
creative from the start. From learning
how to draft legal contracts to
designing
marketing
materials,
creating a logo that would go on my
letterhead and clinical forms - through
trial and error, I figured out how to
create a brand for myself. I learned on
the spot, and I made it happen.
And so, being in business in a field I
know and love is really how I came to
explore the realm of marketing design
and social media management. My
focus has never been on growing a
huge business, but rather on building
a quality service. Developing skill in
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marketing and design turned out to be
an unexpected perk of that mission.
I have no professional training in
design and do not claim to be any sort
of expert-extraordinaire, but I do face
problems head on, and I love
collaborating with other people to
produce creative solutions.
The
project you see on the pages that
follow are the culmination of hours of
editorial meetings, motivated by a
passion to create an alternative music
therapy publication. Welcome, Music
Therapy Clinician!
It has been a great joy to be part of
this small but dedicated team who
make sure that no detail is skipped
over. We hope to continue to develop
Music Therapy Clinician into an even
greater masterpiece, a work that is
attractive, accessible, and most
importantly features music therapists
and the powerful work we do.
Now, how can we make this even
more accessible? How can we best
serve you, our reader?
Contact Ellen
[email protected]