The St. Petersburg Center for Music Therapy - Alan Wittenberg Maine Music Therapy

Saint Petersburg Psychological Association - Saint Petersburg, Russia
Two Workshop Presentations
January 26, 2012 6:30 PM and January 28, 2012 5:00 PM
The Art and Science of Music Therapy (An Introductory workshop presentation)

Saint Petersburg University
Department of Psychology
Auditorium - Lecture Presentation
- January 30, 6:00
“Music Therapy in Concept”
(Music as Therapy: Clinical and Developmental Psychology)

Conceived in the spirit of international friendship and understanding, The St. Petersburg Center for Music Therapy was created as a non-profit humanitarian project providing ongoing music therapy treatment services to disabled children, adolescents and adults. This center is dedicated to bringing music therapy to Russian people.

The Center received official status as a registered center from the City of St. Petersburg in 1993. It continues to function as a unique and meaningful international project in St. Petersburg, Russia. In August of 2010, we celebrated our seventeenth anniversary.

There are five music therapists currently working at the center with 30 - 40 children and adolescents a week.

Several of the children are from foriegn or international families. The center is acknowledged by the International Women's Club and receives annual support from the club and other donors.

Music therapy for Russians

Alan Wittenberg has made over thirty trips back to the St. Petersburg Center, to continue working on his vision of bringing first class music therapy to Russia. He also hosts Russian music therapists at his center in Surry, Maine.

St. Petersburg Conferences:"Music Therapy: Making Contact" - Alan Wittenberg coordinated and was keynote presenter at a series of four international conferences in St. Petersburg. These conferences in 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1998 brought together clinical, medical, rehabilitative specialists and music therapists from Japan, France, Sweden, Germany, Georgia, Russia and the U.S.

Alan's lectures and seminars have been presented at:

Bektherev Psychoneurological Institute
St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music
Gertzina Cultural Institute
St. Petersburg Center for Music Therapy
St. Petersburg Pediatric Medical Institute
St. Petersburg Association for Psychotherapy and Training
St. Petersburg First Medical Institute
St. Petersburg Clinic for Nervous Disorders

The St. Petersburg Staff below (from right to left: Natasha Solovyova - Clinical Director, Galina Rybeshskyaya - Senior Music Therapist, Tanya Constantinova - Music Therapist, Elena Krasnova - Music Therapist)

Working with Russian children. Our two senior therapists at the Saint Petersburg Center for Music Therapy - Natasha and Galina worked with them during the sessions.