As a second-year doctoral student in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University, Cathy is excited to continue to expand her personal and professional growth through her research.Īrtist Statement: Unexpectedly, I dove into a search for a voice I never had, with the help of a modality I never before ventured.

She serves on the American Music Therapy Association’s Music Therapy Informed Music Listening Workgroup, and co-authored the book Music, Memory, and Meaning: How to effectively use music to connect with aging loved ones. In her 10 years of clinical practice, Cathy has worked with clients across a wide range of ages and diagnoses, most recently focusing on neurorehabilitation and eldercare. The accompanying music consists of three original pieces I have composed during my artistic journey: “Only Just Begun,” “Raindrops Fall,” and “(A Snowflake’s Chance to) Fly Again.”īio: Cathy Befi-Hensel is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, a Neurologic Music Therapist, and an Adjunct Professor of Music Therapy in San Antonio, Texas. Beginning my doctoral journey while sustaining a career and having a young child at home led me to reflect on the different and intersecting roles I experience, and led to my guiding question: How can I use photography to reflect and represent my experience of living life in several simultaneous roles? The photographs selected for this presentation provide visual glimpses into my different roles, as well as how these roles overlap and intersect rather than falling into distinctly separate categories. Because of this, I knew that in order to grow, I wanted to study an art form that was focused on visual communication, and photography appealed to me on both practical and artistic levels. As a music therapist and lifelong musician, I both experience and communicate in the world around me primarily through sound. Artist Statement: “Life as I know it has only just begun.” These were the lyrics that I shared on the first day of my Arts Apprenticeship journey, and they have remained the guiding principle for the year.

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