Margareta Wärja

Margareta Wärja, PhD, Director of the Swedish Expressive Arts Institute in Stockholm for 35 years. Margareta is an arts-based psychotherapist, educator, supervisor, musician, and researcher. 

In addition, she is a faculty member of NIKUT, the Expressive Arts Institute in Oslo, Norway, on the teaching team for the Music Therapy Program at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, and a teacher and thesis advisor at European Graduate School (EGS). 

Her research has focused mainly on oncology rehabilitation. Margareta has developed a method called KMR-Brief Music Journeys based on music listening and intermodal expressive arts. This approach was implemented and evaluated in a mixed methods research study in adult cancer rehabilitation. Two interventions using music listening and intermodal expressive arts in a psychotherapeutic frame was implemented to study the effects on existential health, sexuality, and body image for women treated for cancer.