Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. has long blended her hybrid experiences in music and mental health. A graduate of The Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, she has helped numerous people understand and overcome anxiety, depression, blocks to creativity, performance anxiety, relationship issues, and low self-esteem. Her expertise in working as a therapist and as a consultant with individuals and groups (musicians and others) with performance anxiety is recognized as exceptional.
Dr. Nagel has communication skills beyond the consulting room and concert hall. As a writer, she is published in major psychoanalytic, psychology, and music journals. As a presenter and teacher, she has offered lectures, workshops, presentations, and consultations locally, nationally, and worldwide to professional organizations of various disciplines as well as to students. She has won awards for her interdisciplinary work on music and emotion.
Her book, “Melodies of the Mind” is being published by Routledge Press. She is author of a regular blog on Psychology Today titled “Music to My Ears”.
Dr. Nagel is available for consultations, evaluations, presentations, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and clinical supervision.
In the News:
Presenter at US/Canadian Music Teachers National Conference, New York City, 6/2012
New Book: "Melodies of the Mind" in press, Routledge Press.