Liz Eggerding, PhD, MT-BC, has more than 20 years of clinical experience as a music therapist, internship director, and educator. She has created part- and full-time music therapy positions at skilled nursing facilities in New York and Virginia. Liz worked for ten years at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, VA, serving adults with severe and chronic mental illnesses. She established their first music therapy internship program and expanded music therapy services in the civil admissions program (including crisis stabilization), forensic program (including adults admitted for competency restoration and Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity), and the gero-psychiatry program. Before coming to Converse, she taught at Mississippi University for Women (MUW) in Columbus, MS, where she helped establish the MUW Music Therapy Clinic.
Liz received a dual Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia in Fredonia, NY, a Master of Science in Music Therapy from Radford University in Radford, VA, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her dissertation is titled “Therapeutic Presence in Music Therapy Education: An Arts-Based Phenomenological Inquiry.”
Originally from Stormville, New York, Liz moved to Boiling Springs from Columbus, Mississippi in July 2020 with her daughter Erin and their cat Midnight. She is a lifelong New York Mets fan and enjoys comedy TV/movies, reading, swimming, and crocheting for relaxation.
