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Our Music Therapists are currently supporting individuals with:

  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Autism
  • ADHD
  • Cancer
  • Developmental Delays
  • Emotional Needs
  • Increase Motivation to Engage in Treatment
  • Mental Health Needs
  • NICU
  • Perinatal / Labor & Delivery
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Veterans with PTSD, Recovery of Motor Skills and other Functional Outcomes
  • And more!

Our Music Therapists work in a wide variety of settings, such as: sessions through hospitals and private practices, school classrooms, therapy clinics, senior centers, nursing homes, children centers, in-homes and other settings.  Music therapists use both instrumental and vocal music exercises in individual and group sessions to target non-musical goals.  Through musical responses; our music therapists can plan music sessions and experiences for individuals and groups based on our client needs; they can participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning, and they continually evaluate progress, and follow up.

For children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, music therapy may be the key to improving social and emotional health. Music therapy is now part of therapy treatments used for depression, anxiety, trauma, bipolar disorder, autism, or end of life issues. Talk to your doctor about whether music therapy is right for you.  Contact us for a free consultation to determine whether music therapy may be the answer for you.

Cognitive Skills

Music is a powerful medium for attracting our attention. Because it is made up of interesting and ever-changing patterns of repetition and contrast, music can be an effective therapeutic tool to promote learning for people with learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, brain injury, etc. Studies show, for example, that people remember information learned using a musical mnemonic. Consider how we all learned our ABCs and to count when young. The music therapist may use familiar or original music that embeds the academic or cognitive information in the song for quick recall. The music therapist may also facilitate music experience that engage the individual while providing the opportunity to practice a specific skill.

Communication Skills Children

Music therapy can often be used to facilitate communication skills with children. Our music therapist uses music specifically to strengthen language though engaging music interventions. Singing involves speech, language, auditory memory, pitch matching and fluency. The music therapist carefully uses music, rhythm and melody to encourage speech and communication. Singing experiences are used to address the specific needs of each child, such as articulation, inflection, breathing and pacing. For example, the therapist may leave blanks in a familiar song for the child to fill in the missing lyric. The music therapist may also create a song that focuses on practicing specific sounds/letters. These interventions can be in a group or individual setting.

Communication Skills Adults

For patients with traumatic brain injuries, music therapy can be a powerful tool for relearning the skills of language and communication. Representative Gabrielle Giffordsʼ rehabilitation received a great deal of attention in the press because she participated in music therapy as part of her treatments after a brain injury caused by a gunshot. These interventions can be in a group or individual setting in the hospital, adult care centers or nursing homes. Music therapy uses multiple approaches to focus on different problems. For instance, rhythmic auditory stimulation is thought to aid movement, musical improvisation is thought to help emotional expression, while singing, oral motor, and respiratory exercises are thought to assist speech.

Social and Emotional Functioning

Many individuals are drawn to music in some way. It is a prevalent part of many cultures and societies. Music can serve as an avenue for emotional experience. In fact, the emotional experience may be the main reason that people choose to listen to music. Some people who have difficulty expressing feelings have found playing, singing, composing, or listening to music a preferable way to share emotions. The music and relationships developed in music therapy may be used as a means of communication and expression and help individuals develop relationships and address issues that may not be accessible through traditional talk therapy.