Music Therapy Clinician: Supporting reflective clinical practice Volume 1 | Page 34

performing on a given night.
Usually we’d have a featured
performer and some opening folks
and some other folks who’d
perform
in
between
things.
Um…I’m trying to think…it wasn’t
specifically related to music therapy
for me, and I wanted to kind of
work our way into…were there
struggles for any of your folks, or
you guys in particular, with regard
to dual relationships, or…I don’t
know, and maybe this was perhaps,
you know, I threw out the questions
about fantasies related to clients
and countertransference stuff,
because I tend to work in a very
psychodynamic way, and I’ve
worked with some of my clients for
an insanely long period of time, and
I don’t work with kids, and I know,
Christine, you work with adults and
young adults…

Christine:

Mm-hm. I still
work with children.

Roia:

Mm-hm. But I’m just
wondering…within the context of
trying to do things that were partly
community-based
and
partly
therapy-based,
if…was
there
any…did you run into any issues
with that? Or just notice anything
related to that? For yourself?

Christine: [Sighs] Um…that’s

a good question. I think when I was
doing it, um…there weren’t too
many situations where I was the
person’s therapist who was in my
choir.

Roia: Mm-hm.
Christine:

And I certainly
wasn’t in a therapeutic relationship
with, um, some of the community
members,
or
parents,
or
individuals. Um, but I think we
certainly talked about it. What
happened
in
therapy
was
completely different from what was
happening in the choir, and I
really…when participants were
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