Alan Thompson

Alan is a graduate of the Music Therapy Master’s program at New York University, a Board Certified Music Therapist, a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, and a Certified Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapist. He has 15+ years experience as a music therapist working with a variety of populations across New York City, including children and adults with developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities. He has worked extensively in adult and child inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, including Bellevue Hospital (Manhattan), Jacobi Hospital (Bronx), The Ryan White Center(Bronx), Union Settlement(Harlem), Incarnation Children's Center (Washington Heights), Mt. Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital (Upper West Side), and Bronx Lebanon Hospital (Bronx). He currently works a music therapist for the Department of Veterans Affairs and has a private practice based in Brooklyn, NY. Alan frequently conducts workshops and presentations on his work as both educator and in promotion of music therapy.