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PODCAST: Music Therapists Involved in
Inclusive Music Communities - TRANSCRIPT
FEATURING:
Roia Rafieyan, MA, MT-BC,
Angela M. Guerriero, PhD (ABD), MT-BC, and
Christine Wineberg, MA, MT-BC, LPC

Angela: I’m Angela Guerriero,
and I’m a music therapist in private
practice with Tempo! Music
Therapy Services in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, and I’m also a PhD
Candidate.

Roia: Okay! I’m Roia Rafieyan,

and this is our very first podcast for
the NJAMT Journal-zine, which is
still as yet unnamed, and we’re
having a conversation that is about
coffeehouses, and, specifically
inclusive coffeehouses in the state
of
New
Jersey.
And
this
conversation has come about as a
result of the conversation that
started between Angela Guerriero
and myself, and I’ve invited Angela
and Christine here, and I’m going to
have them introduce themselves in
a moment so that we can have a
conversation about some of the
work that we’ve done towards
building
inclusive
music
experiences out in the community
that were outside of music therapy
sessions but kind of grew out of our
work as music therapists. So,
Angela, why don’t you begin and
introduce yourself.

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Roia:

Fabulous! And welcome.
And Christine?

Christine:

Hi. I am Christine
Wineberg, and I am a music
therapist and also a PsyD Candidate
through Immaculata University in
Clinical Psychology, and I’m in
private practice as a therapist.

Roia: Excellent! Welcome. And I

know you’ve both been music
therapists for a really long time, as
have I, and I will introduce myself,
because it occurred to me that I
didn’t really introduce all of myself.
I’m Roia Rafieyan. I’ve been a
music therapist working at a
developmental center in New
Jersey for the past, oh my gosh,
just 27 years. And I also have kind
of a private practice doing clinical
supervision, and I’m also a singer-

songwriter, only that’s a lot more
part-time.
So this conversation kind of started
when Angela and I were talking
about articles, sort of, for the music
therapy NJAMT zine that we’ve
started [laughs], and we had said
something about, well, Angela, do
you recall? I think it was kind of
along the lines of you had done a
presentation.

Angela:

Yeah, I had done a

presentation for TASH1 down in
Washington, DC last December,
just talking about all of the
community work that we do. So,
we’re in private practice, but we
also have inclusive recitals, we have
Sensory Friendly Concerts™, open
mic nights. And I think we started
having a conversation about that,
and we said that, you know, that’s
been going on in New Jersey for a

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