Dr Sami Alanne, DMus, MPhil, is an Adjunct Professor/Associate Professor of Music Therapy and a Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki), Finland. He is affiliated both to Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy and Uniarts Helsinki’s Research Institute. He also works as a music therapist, training psychotherapist (music psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy), supervisor, psychoanalyst, and music psychotherapist of children, adolescents, their families, and adults in the Helsinki metropolitan area. His research topics include traumas, refugeeism, mental health and psychotherapy from the point of view of music, arts, culture, philosophy, and society. He has presented at multiple international conferences and published several peer-reviewed scientific articles and studies of music and psychotherapy.