Jeffrey Wolfe

Jeff is the Chief Operating Officer and a board certified music therapist at Institute for Therapy through the Arts. Jeff's robust experience focuses on designing and growing creative arts therapy programs for children, teens, and adults across multiple healthcare sectors. He is the Administrator of Musical Bridges to Memory, a music intervention research program in partnership with Northwestern University, that aims to improve the lives of individuals with Dementia and their caregivers. He lectures at local universities and has multiple publications with a focus on program development, assessment, and dementia. He has also worked for nearly two decades in early childhood and music program development. Jeff is a founding member (2004), administrator, and former director of Kids Town Child Development Center. Jeff’s holistic and neuroscience-based approach to service delivery encourages people to embrace their creativity, strengths, and drive their care through informed decisions, artistic interests, and relationship building. His advanced training includes a Masters in Music from Ohio University with a concentration in Music Therapy and Counseling, Neurologic Music Therapy, and the ARC model of trauma treatment. His work has positively impacted the lives of thousands of individuals across the past decade, including his passion to create access to music and health across Chicago Public Schools. To date this has led to a creative arts therapy programming across 100 plus Chicago Public Schools and a creative arts therapy team that has grown to 40 therapists.