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Primary Trainers

M. Clark MARILYN F. CLARK has been working with the Bonny Method since 1975. She studied with Dr. Bonny and was in the first graduating class from the Institute for Consciousness and Music. Marilyn has led trainings for the Institute for Music and Imagery, Temple University, Archedigm, and the Bonny Institute. She trained the first GIM Fellows in England. She has a private therapy practice in Baltimore, MD utilizing the Bonny Method, hypnotherapy, guided imagery, and Reiki.
Cathy Mckinney CATHY MCKINNEY is a board-certified music therapist and Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery. She has served as a GIM supervisor, mentor, and primary trainer. She holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Miami. Currently Professor of Music and Director of the Music Therapy Program at Appalachian State University, her clinical interests are the use of music improvisation and GIM as vehicles for personal awareness, growth, and transformation. Her research has focused on the effects of GIM on mood and physiology in healthy adults, as well as in women with breast cancer, and the effects of music on imagery.
LIZ MOFFITT is a music therapist and registered clinical counselor in British Columbia, Canada. She has been a Fellow of AMI since 1993 and a Primary Trainer since 2001. She has also been an instructor in the Capilano College Music Therapy Program for over twenty-five years, where she offers all levels of training in the Bonny Method in a post-graduate certificate program. Liz is a Gestalt therapist and trainer, and has a small private practice working with adults, combining The Bonny Method of GIM and Gestalt therapy.
MADELAINE VENTRE is a Board Certified Music Therapist, a licensed creative arts therapist, and an Association for Music and Imagery Fellow and Primary Trainer. She has been in private practice in GIM for over 25 years. Madelaine has been teaching GIM in universities and institutes both nationally and abroad since 1978. She specializes in the use of improvisational GIM to address abuse and women’s issues. She has published in professional journals and books and presented at national and international conferences.