Faculty members
Full-time
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Jessica Bleuer
- Assistant Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
Status: Assistant ProfessorResearch areas: Her research projects prioritize the resilience and knowledge of targeted groups, and current research includes: A Polycrisis Teaching Laboratory where educators strategize how to address sociopolitical and geopolitical tensions in university classrooms. Taking Drama Therapy Outdoors, where professionals explore the benefits of facilitating therapy in urban settings, parks and forested areas. And -
Annabelle Brault
- Sandra & Alain Bouchard Professor in Music Therapy (Tenure-Track Lecturer), Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: digital well-being, Resource-oriented music therapy, music as a health resource, telehealth music therapy, music therapy with caregivers, music technology in clinical practice and education, socially engaged art practices, philosophical inquiry, -
Cynthia Bruce
- Associate Professor, Music Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: Accessibility; Post-Secondary Education; Music Therapy Education; Critical Disability Studies -
Bonnie Harnden
- Associate Professor and practicum coordinator, Drama Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: Drama therapy, trauma, attachment, research-creation, performed autoethnography, psychoanalysis, ethnography, embodied knowledge, play therapy, family therapy, parenting, experimental theater, theater for social change, arts-based learning, risk factors/ protective factors, borderline personality disorder, child and youth care, suicide intervention, mental health, pedagogy -
Heather McLaughlin
- Assistant Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
- Art Therapy Graduate Program Director, Creative Arts Therapies
- Director, Concordia Arts in Health Centre, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: art therapy, arts in health, couple and family therapy, systemic therapy, clinical supervision, climate justice, climate action, systemic social change, university-community partnerships, trauma informed practice, arts-based learning -
Catherine Kineweskwêw Richardson
- Full Professor , School of Community and Public Affairs
- Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Healing Knowledges
- Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Storytelling
- Co-Founder of the Centre for Response-Based Practice
- Former Director First Peoples Studies, School of Community and Public Affairs
- Visiting Professor Curtin University Australia 2022-2023
- Founder Auralinea A Montreal-based international organization supporting care and healing for Indigenous peoples, minorities, across cultures.
Status: Active agentResearch areas: Indigenous well-being; response-based practice; recovery from violence; women’s leadership and ethics in AI; sensory art and storytelling; Indigenous and minority knowledge systems; intercultural and global collaboration; decolonial education; land, spirit, and relational accountability. -
(Reva) Laurel Young
- Professor, Music Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: music therapy, music, social gerontology, community, advocacy, social justice, cultural competence, Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, integral thinking, aging (ageing), disability, singing, palliative care, dementia, autism, health and well being, mental health, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, bereavement