James Hiller PhD, MT-BC

Jim Hiller's many years of experience as a music therapy clinician, teacher, and solo performer are the grounding elements of his teaching, workshops, and presentations. Jim's clinical experience includes extensive work in child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric psychiatry; brain trauma and neurological disorders, developmental disabilities, and oncology. His clinical work tends toward "active" music therapy methods and his area of expertise is with clinical improvisation based models of music therapy.

Jim has taught in the music therapy programs of Temple University, the College of Mount St. Joseph, and Ohio University. His professional presentations include such topics as improvisational music therapy assessment and treatment, neurologic music therapy, music and the therapeutic relationship, community-based music therapy programming, and marketing of music therapy programs.