Sound Work in Psychotherapy: Indian Raga, Sound Healing, and Voice in Creative Arts Therapy Practices

A 15 Credit In-Person Experiential Continuing Education Course for Mental Health Care Practitioners

When:

Friday, October 24 | 6:00–9:00 PM

Saturday, October 25 | 10:00 AM–5:00 PM (1 hr lunch)

Sunday, October 26 | 10:00 AM–5:00 PM (1 hr lunch)

Location:

Dancing Dialogue

1806 Route 9D, Suite #1

Cold Spring, NY 10516

Course Description:

Join licensed creative arts therapists Eric Fraser and Katie Down for a 2.5-day training exploring how sound can be integrated into psychotherapy.

Drawing from Indian ragas, traditional sound healing, drone music, Deep Listening® practices, and mindfulness, this workshop offers both theory and hands-on practice. You’ll learn how to incorporate sound into your clinical work to support clients navigating PTSD, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and more.

Through voice work, improvisation, movement practices, creative visualization, and somatic awareness, you’ll explore how sound fosters connection, presence, and healing. You’ll also gain practical tools for integrating instruments such as singing bowls, monochords, shruti boxes, and percussion into your sessions.

What You’ll Gain:

1 A grounded understanding of sound work in psychotherapy: theory, history, and applied methods.

2. Tools you can immediately integrate into client work (verbal therapy, movement, and creative arts therapy).

3. Experience with raga, drone-based instruments, and voice as therapeutic resources.

4. Embodied practices for cultivating attunement, connection, and transformation in the therapy space.

Group Leaders:

Eric Fraser, MA, MT-BC, LCAT: Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, and bansuri flutist trained in the vocal style (gayaki-ang) of North Indian classical music. Eric integrates somatic/attachment therapy, expressive arts, and music psychotherapy in his Hudson Valley private practice. He specializes in trauma, anxiety, attachment, and work with children on the autism spectrum and in foster care.

Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC, MM: Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, trauma-informed music psychotherapist, and adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz. Katie has facilitated sound bath meditations for over a decade, co-created the Sound School training at Maha Rose, and is lead music therapist for The Angel Band Project. Her Brooklyn/Hudson Valley practice offers EMDR, mindfulness, and sound-based psychotherapy.

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0066, licensed social workers #SW-0512 and licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0131.