Primary Trainers

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 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.

Support Trainer

NICOLE HAHNA is a board-certified music therapist and Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery who has served as an adjunct member of the Appalachian faculty since 2004. She holds the M.S. degree in music therapy from Radford University. Her research has focused on music therapy and the Bonny Method of GIM for women survivors of intimate partner violence