BACKGROUND

Michelle Cooper, PhD, LPC is a licensed professional counselor, psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Memphis, TN. She earned her doctorate in Music Therapy from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA in 2012. A former music psychotherapist, Dr. Cooper has worked with adults, adolescents and children in private practice and a variety of medical and psychiatric settings. During her doctoral work, she received two post-graduate certifications in two advanced models of clinical improvisation, Analytical Music Therapy and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in New York City. Her qualitative research study entitled Clinical-Musical Responses of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapists: The Process of Clinical Improvisation, was granted a Research Award by Temple University and is published by Barcelona Publishers.

Dr. Cooper completed her analytic training through the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) in 2023 and is currently a faculty member of the affiliated Memphis-Atlanta Jung Seminar (MAJS).  She also serves as a co-editor for the Clinical Commentaries and Film and Culture section for the Journal of Analytical Psychology.  Her book reviews on the topics of Aesthetic Music Therapy and poetry have been published through Music Therapy Perspectives and the Journal of Analytical Psychology.