Gro Trondalen, Ph.D., SET, Music Therapist, Fellow of AMI is Professor in Music Therapy and Director of the Centre for Music and Health at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. Trondalen is a former Head of the MA program in music therapy and the PhD program in music at The Norwegian Academy of Music. She is an experienced music therapy clinician – and supervisor – in the field of child welfare and adult mental health and maintains a private practice in The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). Her research focus has been on clinical work linked to philosophical and theoretical perspectives.