Specializes In:
Music Therapy, Rock Guitar
Biography
Jeffrey Hatcher is a therapist, musician, and researcher living and working in Winnipeg, Canada. Following a twenty-year professional career as a musician, songwriter, and performer he completed the Bachelor of Music Therapy at British Columbia’s Capilano University in 2000. Upon his accreditation he entered graduate studies in Counselling Psychology at Simon Fraser University under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Kenny. Here he completed his thesis “Therapeutic Songwriting With A Man Living With Complex Trauma,” later published in the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy. Mr. Hatcher was, for five years, the staff music therapist at the Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver, serving a client population living with HIV/AIDS, drug addictions and abuse histories. He also acted as Director of Music Therapy Programming at Vancouver Native Health Society, serving client populations that included youth living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and survivors of Canada’s residential school system. In 2005 he relocated to his hometown of Winnipeg to act as clinician in a program for inner-city youth, where the dominant clinical issues were poverty, neglect, learning disabilities, various social problems, as well as the effects of pre-natal alcohol exposure. He is additionally a contract music therapist with Winnipeg’s Child & Family Services (CFS), and serves, through CFS’ various Authorities, private contract clients throughout southern Manitoba. Mr. Hatcher has presented at numerous national and international conference, including the World Congresses of Music Therapy in Oxford, UK, Brisbane, Australia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Education/Training
Bachelor of Music Therapy at British Columbia’s Capilano University in 2000
Career Highlights
Mr. Hatcher has presented at numerous national and international conference, including the World Congresses of Music Therapy in Oxford, UK, Brisbane, Australia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2005 he relocated to his hometown of Winnipeg to act as clinician in a program for inner-city youth, where the dominant clinical issues were poverty, neglect, learning disabilities, various social problems, as well as the effects of pre-natal alcohol exposure.