Krystal Demaine
Profile
Dr. Krystal Demaine is a Board Certified Music Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher. She has advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy, Performance Wellness, and is HeartMath Certified. Her approach teaching, therapy, and parenting are grounded in science, play, creative imagination and the power of human connection. Her clinical specialty and research focus is the use of the arts with intellectual disabilities, neurologic needs, and end of life care.
Education
Lesley University
Doctor of Philosophy in Expressive Therapies
2012
Cambridge College
Master of Education in Counseling Psychology
2004
Berklee College of Music
Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy
2000
Awards and Accomplishments
- Music Therapist Board Certified (MT-BC); (2001); CBMT#06386
- Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT); (2014); IEATA
- Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200); (2013); Yoga Teachers Alliance, RYT #123267
- Fellow of Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT-Fellow); (2005; 2008); CBMR Music, CSU
- Performance Wellness Level I & II (2001, 2004, 2008)
Selected Publications
Demaine, K. (2020). Reflections of the Endicott College Expressive Therapies Symposium: Traditional Chinese Medicine Arts and Culture. Creative Arts in Education and Therapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives, 6(1), 97-107.
Demaine, K. (2018). The radiant fire: Confronting the critic and nurturing the inner child. In E. Scholz (Ed.), Anxiety Warrior Volume Two (pp. 151-162). Ontario, Canada: The Artists Reply.
Demaine, K. (2016). A reunion of east and west: Reflections on the roots of creative arts therapy and traditional Chinese medicine. Creative Arts in Education and Therapy: East and West, 2(1), 29-39.
Demaine, K. (2015). These are my memories of you: The use of music therapy with children’s grief support groups. In S. L. Brooke and D. Miraglia (Eds.), Using the Creative Therapies to Cope with Grief and Loss (pp.180-196). Springfield, Il: Charles C. Thomas.
Courses
Foundations of Creative Therapies
Specific Populations in Expressive Therapies
Methods and Materials for Expressive Therapies
Therapeutic Writing
Guitar for Expressive Therapies
Foundations of Music Therapy
Counseling Practices in the Expressive Therapies
Senior Thesis I + II