Sue Baines is a social activist. She has a Master of Arts in Music Therapy from New York University where she applied a feminist framework to music therapy, and a PhD from the University of Limerick where she studied music therapy and social justice. She is a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery trained through the Southeast Institute for Music Centered Psychotherapy in Atlanta, GA and is certified by the Canadian Association for Music Therapy. She has extensive music therapy experience working with persons with a broad spectrum of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual concerns in a variety of clinical and community settings. Sue has practiced music therapy in Vancouver since 1994 and taught in the Bachelor of Music Therapy program at Capilano University in North Vancouver since 1997. She works, researches, and publishes on topics in anti-oppressive music therapy with the goal of ending systemic oppression both in music therapy and globally.
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Sue's Links:
- Music Therapy as an Anti-oppressive practice (2013)
- Anti-oppressive music therapy: Updates and future considerations (2021)
- Sue at Capilano University: https://www.capilanou.ca/programs--courses/search--select/explore-our-areas-of-study/faculty-profiles/sue-baines/
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