Tali Gottfried Author

Kirsi Tuomi, PhD, is a music therapist, attachment-focused family therapist. Kirsi has almost 25 years of clinical expertise when working with families as a music therapist and more than 15 years of experience on supervising and counseling foster parents. Together with a colleague she has developed a training model for music therapists concerning family-centered music therapy and dialogical parent counseling. She gives lectures on these subjects on a regular basis in Finnish universities and is a clinical supervisor for music therapy students. Stine Lindahl Jacobsen, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is head of Art, Aesthetics & Health Section as well as head of Arts and Health in Danish Northern Region, co-founder and host of International Music Therapy Assessment Consortium, and co-founder of Arts, Health and Humanities Research Cluster at Aalborg University. Jacobsen has developed Assessment of Parent-Child Interaction (APCI) and trains music therapists and other professions in this method internationally. Tali Gottfried, PhD, is a music therapist, researcher, and supervisor. With over 24 years of experience, her clinical and research work focuses on families of children diagnosed on the autism spectrum or developmental delays, using music as a bridge in parent-child relationship. Tali developed the Music-Oriented Parent Counseling (MOPC) model, which advocates for supporting parents in their parenthood journey, using music as an experience and as a tool in everyday life with their children.