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= Diane Austin = Dr. Diane Austin is a music and vocal psychotherapist in the United States. She is the creator of the music therapy model Vocal Psychotherapy and the accompanying techniques of Vocal Holding and Free Associative Singing. She is a pioneer in the field of music therapy and psychotherapy, bridging the two fields and approaches through the study and clinical practice of the voice in healing the inner child, traumatic events, addictions and codependency. In 2003 she founded the Music Psychotherapy Center of New York to further the Vocal Psychotherapy work in clinical study and practice. Austin has written a book on vocal psychotherapy, over 25 peer-reviewed articles, has presented widely and has received many honors and awards.

Education and Training
Austin studied theater arts at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. After having worked as a professional singer and actor for much of her life, she received a master's degree music therapy from New York University. After nearly twenty years of intensive clinical work and study, she continued her studies at New York University becoming doctor of music therapy. Austin also studied at post-graduate training institutes including the Institute for Expressive Analysis (NYC), the Institute for Depth Psychology (Rye, NY), and the Psychodrama Training Institute (NYC).

Clinical Experience
Austin has been in private practice as a music and vocal psychotherapist in New York City and Sag Harbor, NY since 1988. Her clients include musicians, artists, mental health practitioners and anyone with a history of trauma, loss, addictions, and codependency. Her decades of clinical experience and research led her to the development, practice, codification and education of Vocal Psychotherapy including Vocal Holding Technique and Free Associative Singing. This work had its early beginnings at the Margules Music Therapy Program at Turtle Bay Music School in New York City that Austin co-founded and directed. Here she worked with adolescent girls in foster care for over ten years.

Austin's earlier clinical experience in New York City includes the Stratford Arms Project Residential Program for elderly alcoholic and psychiatric patients; the Bayview Correctional Facility; Staten Island Children's Museum's Project Return with battered women and children; Greenhope Halfway House residential program for women transitioning from prison to independent living; Montessori Schools and daycares with children with special needs; and the Lighthouse for the Blind.

Teaching Experience
Austin's teaching engagements span over twenty years. She is the director and trainer at the Korean Distance Training Program in Vocal Psychotherapy (Seoul, Korea), the Vancouver Vocal Psychotherapy Institute Distance Training Program in Vocal Psychotherapy (Vancouver, BC), and the Advanced Training Program in Vocal Psychotherapy at the Music Psychotherapy Center of New York (NYC). For two decades she has been Adjunct Professor at the Music Therapy Program at New York University. She also teaches at Fredonia College in Fredonia, NY. She has also been on the faculty of Antioch University, Pratt University and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra.

Presentations, Seminars & Professional Activities
Austin has presented workshops, classes, and seminars nationally and internationally in over twenty-three countries about her work with the voice and Vocal Psychotherapy. She has presented at regional, national, and international music therapy, creative arts therapies, and psychotherapy conferences; universities and teaching hospitals at home and abroad; psychoanalytic, trauma, and depth psychology institutes; and the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Austin has served on many professional boards including regional, national, and international music and creative arts therapies conferences, periodicals, and peer-reviewed journals.

Honors
Unification Award: Mid-Atlantic Region Music Therapy Association

Kappa Delta Pi: International Honor Society in Education

Pi Kappa Lambda: National Music Honor Society

Grants
Grants have been awarded to Austin for her investigations into the voice as therapy by Staten Island Children’s Museum, National Endowment for the Arts, Music for the World Foundation, Inc., van Ameringen Foundation, Inc., and Marion E. Kenworthy-Sarah H. Swift Foundation.

Vocal Psychotherapy
Austin created an emerging model of music psychotherapy called Vocal Psychotherapy based on her clinical practice and research. This model includes Free Associative Singing and Vocal Holding Technique. Austin teaches this model at three international post-graduate training programs in Vocal Psychotherapy in New York City, Vancouver, and Seoul.

Books
Austin, D. (2008). The Theory and Practice of Vocal Psychotherapy: Songs of the Self. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Articles
Austin, D. (2011) Foreword to (F. Baker & S. Uhlig, Eds.) Voicework in Music Therapy: Research and Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Austin, D. (2010). When the Bough Breaks: Vocal Psychotherapy and Traumatized Adolescents. In (Kristen Stewart, Ed.) Music Therapy and Trauma: Bridging Theory and Clinical Practice. New York: Satchnote Press.

Austin, D. (2008). Music Therapy and Vocal Psychotherapy. In (Norio Seki, Ed.) Creative Arts Therapy. Language: Japanese. Tokyo, Japan: Film Art Publisher.

Austin,D. (2007b) Vocal Psychotherapy. In (Barbara J. Crowe, Ed.) Best Practice in Music Therapy for Adults, Adolescents and Children with Psychiatric Disabilities. Silver Spring, MD: American Music Therapy Association, Publisher.

Austin, D. (2007a). Lifesongs: Music Therapy with Adolescents in Foster Care. In (Vanessa Camilleri, Ed.) Healing the Inner City Child: Creative Arts Therapies with At-risk Youth. London,UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Austin, D. (2006c). In Depth Music Psychotherapy. Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, 42, (2).

Austin, D. (2006b). Songs of the Self: Vocal Psychotherapy For Adults Traumatized as Children. In (Lois Carey, Ed.) Expressive/Creative Arts Methods for Trauma Survivors. London, U.K: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Austin, D. (2006a). Voice Psychotherapy. In (Hyun Ju Chong, Ed.) Techniques, Methods and Models in Music Therapy. Seoul,Korea: Hakjisa Publishers.

Austin, D. & Forinash, M. (2005). Arts-Based Research. In (Barbara Wheeler, Ed.) Music Therapy Research: Volume Two. Gilsum,N.H: Barcelona Publishers.

Austin, D. (2004). When Words Sing and Music Speaks: A Qualitative Study of In Depth Music Psychotherapy With Adults. Doctoral Dissertation. UMI Number 3110989.

Austin, D.(2002a). The Wounded Healer: A Response to ‘The Journey through a Barren Landscape to Practicing Music Therapist’. British Journal of Music Therapy, 16, (2).

Austin, D. (2002b). The Voice of Trauma: A Wounded Healer’s Perspective. In (Julie Sutton, Ed.) Music, Music Therapy &Trauma: International Perspectives. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Austin, D. (2001a). In Search of the Self: The Use of Vocal Holding Techniques With Adults Traumatized as Children. Music Therapy Perspectives,19, (1).

Austin, D. & Dvorkin, J. (2001b) Peer Supervision in Music Therapy. In (Michele Forinash, Ed.) Music Therapy Supervision. Gilsum, N.H: Barcelona Publishers.

Austin, D. & Dvorkin, J (2001c) Peer Supervision in Music Therapy. In (Michele Forinash,Ed.) Music Therapy Supervision. Tokyo, Japan: Ningen to Rekishi sha Ltd. Tokyo Family Building 3- 5Kanda Surugadai Chiyodao-ku, Tokyo 100-0062 Japan.

Austin, D. & Dvorkin, J (2001d) Peer Supervision in Music Therapy. In (Michele Forinash, Ed.) Music Therapy Supervision. Seoul, South Korea: Hakjisa Publisher Map-Guseogyo-Dong.

Austin, D. (1999a). Vocal Improvisation in Analytically Oriented Music Therapy with Adults. In (Tony Wigram and Jos DeBacker, Eds.) Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Psychiatry. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Austin, D. (1999b). Many Stories, Many Songs. In (Julie Hibben, Ed.) Inside Music Therapy: Client Experience. Gilsum, N.H.: Barcelona Publishers.

Austin, D. (1999c) Cancoes do Self: Canto Improvisado em Musicoterapia Analitica-Junguiana. In (Lia Rejane Mendes Barcellos, Ed.) Musicoterapia:Transferencia, Contratransferencia E Resistencia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Enelivros Editora E Livraria Ltda.

Austin, D. (1999d) Clinical Editor for The Margules Program: Music Therapy with Adolescents in Foster Care by A.Jeffrey Friedberg, New York, NY. : Turtle Bay Music School.

Austin, D. (1998). When the Psyche Sings: Transference and Countertransference in Improvised Singing with Individual Adults. In (Ken Brusica, Ed.) The Dynamics of Music Psychotherapy. Gilsum, N.H.: Barcelona Publishers.

Austin, D.(1996). The Role of Improvised Music in Psychodynamic Music Therapy with Adults. Music Therapy, 14 (1).

Austin, D.(1993a). Projection of Parts of the Self Onto Music and Musical Instruments. In (G.M. Rolla, Ed.) Your Inner Music. Wilmette, Ill.: Chiron Publications.

Austin, D.& Dvorkin, J. (1993b). Resistance in Individual Music Therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 20 (5).

Austin, D.(1991). The Musical Mirror: Music Therapy for the Narcissistically Injured. In (Ken Bruscia, Ed.) Case Studies in Music Therapy. Phoenixville, P.A. Barcelona Publishers.