Amy Clarkson
LCAT, MT-BC, TEP 94 Eastern Avenue
About Amy Clarkson
Amy is a certified trainer, educator and practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy and a board-certified music therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience. Within her private practice, Creative Flow Therapy Services, Amy provides psychodrama and music therapy services, training and supervision. In collaboration with Barbara McKechnie, Amy facilitates both virtual and in-person monthly psychodrama training groups as well as single day workshops. An area of specialization has been facilitating Bibliodrama and Bibliodrama trainings.
In clinical practice, Amy serves children, youth and adults who have experienced trauma or who are moving through periods of significant emotional challenge. Amy has also worked for many years with children and youth with neurodevelopmental differences, including being a part of the transdisciplinary team at the Ben Samuels Children’s Center and working with children within the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health at Montclair State University. As an adjunct faculty member and clinical training associate in the Music Therapy Department at Montclair State, Amy teaches music therapy courses and coordinates pre-internship clinical placements.
With a firmly held belief in the power of each person’s creativity as an available resource, Amy finds it a privilege to supportively walk alongside those who are on the courageous journey of growth, healing, and recovery. She is committed to working toward the dismantling of oppressive and unjust systems and practices that negatively impact marginalized groups and is committed to better understanding her own unconscious biases and the ways she has benefitted from and been complicit within those same unjust systems. Amy has presented on a variety of music therapy and psychodrama topics at local, regional and national conferences and has published articles and book chapters on music therapy with child survivors of domestic violence and on a relational and developmental approach to working with young children with autism spectrum disorder.
