A compassionate professor, researcher, leader, author, and therapist with over 20 years of experience in arts and healing. Dr. Krystal Demaine is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Certified Trauma and Resilience Specialist, and Registered Yoga Teacher. Author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and two books, her work spans an integrated arts approach with foundations in music, visual arts, creative writing, somatics, breathwork, and meditation. Her clinical practice serves groups and individuals across the lifespan in areas of neurologic function, trauma, grief support, and end-of-life care, with a lens of client-centered, existential, and cognitive behavioral approaches. As the core professor of Expressive Therapies at Endicott College in Beverly, MA, USA, she is passionate about learning from students and helping to cultivate a sense of identity, connection, and belongingness. The mandala of her approach to expressive therapies is grounded in science, play, creativity, imagination, inclusion, and the power of human connection.
She holds credentials as a Board-Certified Music Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and Registered Yoga teacher with advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy, Performance Wellness, Integrative Medicine for Mental Health, and trauma-sensitive HeartMath, she is a Certified Trauma and Resilience Specialist in Clinical Application (CTRS-C), and is a Listening Hour Practitioner. She has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and presented her work globally.
In addition, she serves on a variety of professional boards including The Beverly Cultural Council, the International Association for Creative Arts in Education & Therapy (IACAET) as North American Director; the American Art Therapy Asociation (AATA) undergraduate education sub-committee, and as Chair of the Professional Development Committee of the Northeast Region of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), the IEATA conference planning committee, and is the Founder and Coordinator of the bi-ennial Endicott College Expressive Therapies Symposium.
Her 2022 book, “The Roots and Rhythm of the Heart” shares her journey through grief, music, and HEARTful healing. Her latest book Expressive Therapeutic Writing by Demaine & Einstein will be released in September 2024 by Routledge Publishers.