Suzanne Jonas, Ed.D. holds a doctorate in counseling psychology and creative therapies and has training in Guided Imagery & Music, BioAcoustics, and Hemi-Sync. As a former semi-professional musician she discovered within herself the power of music to heal, and has spent 20 years researching and practicing music medicine with a wide variety of patients. She has worked in acute care hospitals and rehabilitation facilities, and taught at the University of Massachusetts. She has done definitive research on music and the effects of sound on physiology and emotion; has co-authored a Cardiac Healing Tape and a Relaxation tape with the Monroe Institute; and has produced several other healing tapes. Her guide to passive music therapy, “Take Two Tapes and Call Me in the Morning” is widely used by hospital practitioners and she has contributed a chapter on Music Therapy in Physical Rehabilitation in the Baylor School of Medicine’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: The Definitive Approach. She currently trains teachers, health care workers, and business personnel in the uses of music and sound for stress and symptom reduction and to increase whole brain learning, healing, and productivity. Suzanne maintains a private behavioral medicine practice, Music and Medicine, in Maryville TN and is president of the TN chapter of Wholistic Wellness Network.

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