Mission and Bio
Sound Well Creative Arts Therapy is a private, integrative and holistic psychotherapy practice, focusing on the creative arts as a means of self-expression and a powerful entry point into healing. EMDR, somatic work, sound healing and music therapy are amongst some of the techniques offered in each session. Katie offers clients the opportunity to experience true self-acceptance and unconditional positive regard, the release of trauma, connection to the self and others, and insight into personal integrity and purpose.
BIO
Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC, MMT, MM, is a licensed creative arts therapist, psychotherapist, board-certified music therapist and EMDR practitioner.
She received her master's in music psychotherapy from NYU, and in composition from the New England Conservatory with post-graduate certifications from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy's Trauma Studies Program and EMDR Level III through the Parnell Institute.
Katie is a professional flutist, multi-instrumentalist, and award-winning composer and sound designer, bringing with her a wide range of musical experiences and approaches from classical, jazz, world music, and free improvisation. She has enhanced her musicianship with intensive voice and Deep Listening training with Rhiannon, Meredith Monk, and Lisa Sokolov and Pauline Oliveros.
She is an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz and guest lectures at NYU, Vassar College, University of Colorado, The School for Visual Arts, Cal State Fullerton, The Jewish Theologic Seminary, and Hofstra University. She co-leads the Sound School training program with Jessica Caplan at Maha Rose Center for Healing in Brooklyn and Mexico and provides individual and small group intensives in sound work to healing arts practitioners interested in learning clinical techniques in applying sound to their practice. She is a Reiki II practitioner as well and provides Reiki as an adjunctive offering in her clinical practice.