Ep 51 Dr Diane Austin

Dr. Diane Austin DA, LCAT is
the Director of the Music Psychotherapy Center in New York City
where she offers a two-year post-graduate certificate program in
Vocal Psychotherapy. She teaches in the graduate music therapy
department at New York University. Dr. Austin has maintained a
private practice in music, expressive psychotherapy and
supervision for over 25 years, and has lectured and taught Vocal
Psychotherapy trainings internationally. Her work has been
published in numerous journals and books and translated into
several languages. Diane created the first distance training
program in Vocal Psychotherapy in Vancouver, B.C. and had a
distance training program in Seoul, Korea for 12 years which
started again virtually in 2021.  Her first
international/multicultural distance training program in Vocal
Psychotherapy began in 2018 at Mayfield Farm in England (about an
hour from London). Her book, “The Theory and Practice of Vocal
Psychotherapy: Songs of the Self” was published by Jessica
Kingsley in 2010 and codified the first voice-based model of
music psychotherapy.


Diane talks in this interview about the genesis of her approach,
including her background in musical theatre and jazz, and how
psychoanalysis played an important part. 


Dianeaustin.com


Diane's email address: Diane@dianaustin.com


More details about the vocal psychotherapy training programme can
be found on the BAMT website


Austin, D. (2009). The theory and practice of vocal
psychotherapy: Songs of the self. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.