meet Kathleen Coleman and Betsey King
Kathleen Coleman, MMT, MT-BC and Betsey King, PhD, MT-BC founded
Prelude Music Therapy
in 1995. Kathleen and Betsey are both board-certified music therapists
with over 30 years experience in the field. They are not native Texans,
but spent most of their professional lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth
area of the Lone Star State...up until 2004, when Betsey left to
pursue a doctorate in music therapy at the University of Kansas.
After many years in which she started several of the music therapy
programs which still exist in north Texas,
Kathleen
now has a private practice
working with clients who have developmental disabilities. She also
teaches piano and
guitar, provides consulting services for school districts, agencies,
and therapists nationwide, and is involved in dachshund rescue (with
four dachshunds at home!).
Betsey is associate professor of music therapy at
Nazareth College
in Rochester, New York, where she teaches both undergraduate and
graduate students. She previously was an assistant professor and head
of the Department of Music Therapy at
Southern Methodist University
in Dallas. Prior to teaching, she spent eight years working in physical
medicine rehabilitation and other medical areas, and eight years in
public school music therapy and private practice with a variety of
clients.
Kathleen and Betsey have both published articles in
Music Therapy Perspectives,
one of the two journals published by the
American Music Therapy Association
and have written chapters for the AMTA book
Models of Music Therapy in the Public Schools. Both Kathleen and Betsey give national and international workshops and presentations.
