Elizabeth K. Schwartz MA, LCAT, MT-BC spent her music therapy clinical career working in early childhood music therapy and school-based music therapy practice. She frequently presents on music development, music centered practice and assessment, and use of the voice in music therapy. Elizabeth is the author of a number of articles, book chapters, and books on music therapy including Music, Therapy, and Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach, Functional Voice Skills for Music Therapists, and Basic Verbal Skills for Music Therapists published by Barcelona Publishers and the You and Me Makes…We and Together with the Beat: Songs for Me, and You, and Us songbooks. Her research projects include studying therapeutic singing and clinical musicianship. She continues to teach courses on music therapy as Adjunct Professor at Molloy University and as guest lecturer at a number of music therapy programs across the United States including Shenandoah University.
Elizabeth is co-founder of Raising Harmony: Music Therapy for Young Children which provides training and resources for music therapists. Her other passion is music therapy advocacy on the regional, state, and federal level including government law and regulation pertaining to practice oversight and funding. Throughout her career she has served in a number of professional positions on behalf of music therapists and clients. In 2014, Elizabeth received the American Music Therapy Association Professional Practice Award.
