Gene Ann Behrens

Gene Ann Behrens, Ph.D., MT-BC, is a Professor of Music and directs the music therapy program at Elizabethtown College. She received her Doctoral degree in Music Therapy from University of Kansas, Masters and Educational Specialist Degree from Kent State University, and Bachelor of Music in Therapy from Michigan State University. As a board certified music therapist, she brings over 37 years of clinical work and research into her classroom teaching and clinic supervision. Gene has served on committees and executive boards for the American Music Therapy Association, Mid-Atlantic Region for Music Therapy, and Certification Board for Music Therapists. She presently is on the executive board for the World Federation of Music Therapy, chair of the Global Crises Intervention Commission, a member of the Mid-Atlantic Music Therapy research committee, and on the editorial board for Music Therapy Perspectives and Voices. Her travels include a variety of countries including Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian Territory where she conducted a music therapy program for children traumatized by the on-going conflict. Gene’s national and international presentations and publications in the area of trauma, neurobiology, and music therapy led to an invite to present at a NATO Security workshop in Ankara, Turkey. Her passion for photography resulted in two solo exhibits of her photojournalism pictures from Bethlehem, entitled Behind the Walls.