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Biography
Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC, specializes in trauma and working with LGBTQAI2S+ children, teens, adults, and older adults. They have thirty years of music therapy clinical experience at behavioral health settings, medical and hospice settings, schools, and community music therapy. Their work centers in humanism, queer theory, & culturally responsive practices. They specialize in queer issues, minority stress, identity development, acute and chronic pain, trauma, and stress. In addition, they teach at several universities and colleges courses that focus on research, music therapy in medical settings, practicum, supervision, mindfulness, ethics, and culturally responsive practices. Their scholarship (over 20 articles and chapters) centers around cultural responsiveness and anti-oppressive practices, pain, and electronic music technologies. They are co-editor of Cultural Intersections in Music Therapy: Music, Health, and the Person. They served AMTA for many years in positions that range from regional to national to the board of directors. They are a certified practitioner of Progressive Counting (trauma technique) and certified instructor of Cognitively Based Compassion Training (compassion meditation practice based in the lojong, an IndoTibetean Buddhism practice). They are a creative person, engaging in woodworking, metal smithing, knitting, and watercolors. They are pursuing a PhD in Creative Arts Therapy Research.
Education
- M.A., St. Mary-of-the-Woods College
- B.M., Colorado State University
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural Responsiveness
- Pain
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Medical Music Therapy