Spring 2025 Music Therapy Conference

Cupola atop a building on the Molloy University campus

Embracing the Musical-Clinical Pivot in Music Therapy
Presenter: Dr. Suzanne Sorel
Saturday, March 8, 2025 (please note date change from original 4/5/25 date);
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. or to 12:45 p.m.
(2-3 CMTEs/LCATs CE credits)
Three Ways to Attend: In-Person, Virtual through Zoom and limited time Recording

Description:
Much of the work we do in music therapy requires flexibility and the ability to pivot to adapt to new, often unanticipated circumstances. Unanticipated changes occur from session to session and even moment to moment with our clients. Our ability to listen, reassess, and modify interventions and our musicing based upon what is occurring calls for many musical and personal qualities. This presentation will explore musical and clinical ways to envision and enact pivoting. Musical pivoting such as harmonic, tempo shifting and smooth voice leading will be shared to help the participant realize dramatic and subtle shifts in musicing. Philosophical tenets of hope theory (Snyder, 1994) will be offered to inspire change and support clinical pivoting.  

Program Format:
The first two hours of the workshop will be didactic, and the third hour (in-person only, for a limited number of participants) will be music-based and hands-on (held in the Molloy University keyboard lab).

Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Sorel is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, educator, and clinical supervisor with over 30 years of experience. Dr. Sorel founded and directed the Graduate Music Therapy Program at Molloy University from 2008 to 2024 and has taught hundreds of music therapists locally, nationally, and internationally.

Dr. Sorel holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY New Paltz and master’s and doctoral degrees from NYU. She is also a Level III Certified Trainer in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.

Dr. Sorel has presented at numerous conferences worldwide, focusing on clinical improvisation and humanistic, evidence-based treatment planning. In 2022, she published the text Becoming a Music-Centered Therapist, and she is also the author of multiple music therapy chapters, and composed multiple songs used in education and therapy.

Dr. Sorel continues to teach full-time at Molloy, and has recently started a private practice, Sorel Creative Arts Therapy, PLLC.

Continuing Education Credit:

NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)  Molloy University is an approved provider for CE credit from NY State for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists: approval number CAT-0015. This program is approved for two (2) to three (3) CE contact hours for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists depending upon if you opt for the hands-on portion in the third hour.  
Music Therapy: CMTE Embracing the Musical Clinical Pivot in Music Therapy is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 2 virtual and 3 in person Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. Molloy University, P-102, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.  
 
Location/Zoom/Recording:
If you attend in-person, the first two hours will be held in the Larini Room of the Public Square (2nd floor) at Molloy's Rockville Centre campus located at 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre, New York 11571. Those who opt to take the hands-on portion of the program during the last hour will move to the Molloy University keyboard lab.  Click here for directions to the campus and a campus map.
 
All participants will also be emailed the Zoom link with further information as we get closer to the conference date. The program will be recorded and you will have up to three weeks to watch the recorded workshop. The recording will be sent the Monday following the program.
 
Registration
Participants may choose to attend in-person, remotely through Zoom or via recording. The registration process is the same for all options. 

Click here to register online. Register on-line 24/7. You will need a MasterCard, Discover or Visa charge card and an email address.   To register by phone, please call 516-323-3550 with your MasterCard, Discover or Visa charge card.   Confirmation of your registration will be sent to you upon receipt of your registration. You will receive the Zoom link to join the program via email within a week of the date of the program. In-person registration is limited. In-person registration the day of the conference cannot be guaranteed.  

Refund Policy: A full refund will be granted as long as you contact us prior to the start date.  

Tuition Rates:

Two Hours (no optional 3rd Hour Hands-on)
Early Registration through January 10, 2025: $30
Regular Registration January 11-February 14: $35
Late Registration after February 14: $40
Molloy Full-Time Students, Faculty and Staff, (Please use your Molloy email address when registering): No Charge*
Non-Molloy Students (provide your school email address when registering): $10*
Molloy Alumni: $22.50*
*By Feb 15, then late fees apply
 
Three Hours (Includes optional 3rd Hour Hands-on)
Early Registration through January 10, 2025: $50
Regular Registration January 11-February 14: $60
Late Registration after Febrauary 14: $70
Molloy Full-Time Students, Faculty and Staff, (Please use your Molloy email address when registering): $10*
Non-Molloy Students (provide your school email address when registering): $20*
Molloy Alumni: $37.50*
*By Feb 15, then late fees apply


Questions regarding registration?
Email: conted@molloy.edu
Phone: 516.323.3550

The following are some links about our Music Therapy program that you may find interesting:
Video on Molloy's Graduate Music Therapy Program https://vimeo.com/90795256
Twitter Account for Molloy's Graduate Music Therapy Program https://twitter.com/MusicMolloy
Facebook Page for Molloy's Graduate Music Therapy Program https://www.facebook.com/molloyuniversitymusic