Eugenia Hernandez-Ruiz
Eugenia Hernandez-Ruiz is Associate Professor in Music Therapy at Arizona State University. Her clinical and research interests are focused on supporting autistic children and their families, developing parent coaching models, empowering survivors of domestic violence, and investigating music therapy student development and music neuroscience.
Dr. Hernandez Ruiz's main clinical efforts are geared towards autistic children and their families. Her research focuses on parent coaching of music interventions, survivors of domestic violence, wellbeing, music therapy education, and music therapy practices in Latin America. Her clinical expertise includes Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBI) and music interventions for children, teenagers and young adults with autism, and their families. In 2004, she founded a music therapy agency in her home country (Mexico), from which she stilll provides virtual clinical services to families and professional development opportunities to music therapy clinicians regarding music therapy, autism, and domestic violence.
Dr. Hernandez-Ruiz currently serves as Co-Editor of Music Therapy Perspectives. She has participated in review panels for the National Institutes of Health, National Endowment for the Arts (USA) and other national and international funding agencies. She also serves on the Continuing Education Committee of the Certification Board for Music Therapists and is co-chair of the Arthur Flager Fultz Research Fund of the American Music Therapy Association. She is a member of the Research and Ethics Committee of the World Federation of Music Therapy. In Latin America, she is part of the Board of Directors and chair of the Professional Training and Regulation Commission of the Asociación de Musicoterapeutas en México (AMME, Mexico’s national association). She serves in the Historical Commission of the Comité Latinoamericano de Musicoterapia (CLAM).