Cyd Slotoroff, Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC)
For more than 25 years, I have specialized in working with young people with physical, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems. I created and implemented music therapy programs at Yale-New Haven Hospital Pediatric Service, Yale Psychiatric Institute (now Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital), and St. Francis Home for Children. In all of these settings, I have used music therapy to help children and adolescents to express themselves, to cope with difficult feelings and experiences, to take initiative and become empowered, to cultivate their resilience, and to improve their social skills.
Thanks to funding from Michael Bolton Charities, I am currently doing music therapy part-time with children and teens at a domestic violence shelter and with adolescents at New Horizons, a small alternative high school in New Haven.
Here is a great article that was recently published, about my work.
Link to article online
Downloadable PDF of article:
Thanks to funding from Michael Bolton Charities, I am currently doing music therapy part-time with children and teens at a domestic violence shelter and with adolescents at New Horizons, a small alternative high school in New Haven.
Here is a great article that was recently published, about my work.
Link to article online
Downloadable PDF of article:
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Selected Accomplishments
- Guest Lecturer: Berklee College of Music, Music Therapy Department: “Clinical Songwriting: Lyrics, Music, and the Role of the Therapist”. March 2011.
- Developed technique for pain management with pediatric patients. “Collaborative Imagery with Music”. Presented findings at Yale School of Medicine Symposium: Pain Management Through Music Therapy, 2007.
Cyd speaking to students at the Berklee College of Music about Music Therapy
For more information about music therapy see American Music Therapy Association Website
www.musictherapy.org
www.musictherapy.org