It is an honor to welcome our guest mentor for our very first episode, Emma Moonier.

Emma is a Registered Attachment Therapist, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and a Board-Certified Music Therapist. She is a professor of music therapy at Augsburg University and a music psychotherapist, specializing in attachment and attachment injury. Emma also works extensively with queer and trans youth.

This episode includes conversations around understanding attachment and attachment injury in music therapy; working with gender-expansive, queer, and trans youth; supervising music therapy students; and embracing listening and cultural humility.

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KEoc9X1l_wSJbf4wusSEIvSg4bWsu8JO/view?usp=sharing

Resources mentioned in this episode include the following:

• Perspectives on Perspectives Podcast Episode 8 - Evolving Considerations and Dimensions in Best Practices in Music Therapy with the LGBTQ Community: https://academic.oup.com/mtp/pages/mtp-podcasts
• Whitehead-Pleaux, A., Donnenwerth, A., Robinson, B., Hardy, S., Oswanski, L., Forinash, M., Hearns, M., Anderson, N., & York, E. (2012). Lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, and questioning: Best practices in music therapy. Music Therapy Perspectives, 30(2), 158–166. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/30.2.158
• Mindfulness, Music, and Mandala: Cultivating Self-Compassion around Privilege and Bias CMTE G at the AMTA 2020 National Conference: https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=SessionDetail&session_key=be216084-d35b-4d7f-828c-e4f14ab09e34&evt_key=76c9b1a4-428e-4144-9ff6-1851109d0d5c&Site=AMTA2
• Alex Iantaffi Podcast and Books: https://www.alexiantaffi.com/
• BMTN's Black Creative Healing Podcast: https://anchor.fm/black-creative-healing
• Emma's Theme Song Let It Be Me by The Indigo Girls: https://youtu.be/-Hb7TZ5FQHI
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