I am amazed by the number of articles that come out each week about music therapy. Coming off of advocacy month in January, it is always exciting to see these stories spotlight a different music therapist and a different "type" of music therapy (hospice, special education, medical, etc). I was fortunate enough to be interviewed for not [...]
What do you do? The idea for this song came about when I was working with a child with autism, providing individual music therapy. I found that it was easy for her to learn academic skills (numbers, colors, lettters) because of the rote memorization involved to learn the information. However, when it came to questions about how [...]
Dun dun dun! I said it - taxes. Ug. Could a blog post be more dry? I promise I will keep it short and sweet and give you some useful take home information for your private practice. Let me first clearly state that I am not an accountant, nor do I have any formal training in [...]
Valentine's Day is right around the corner! Over the past few days, I've shared a few of my favorite V-Day themed interventions. In today's blog post, I'd like to share the V-Day session plan I created for my tween and teen sessions. 1. Valentine's Day BINGO 2. Instrument Playing to "Love Story" by Taylor Swift * (a [...]
Love is in the air! I'll admit that I am a big holiday person. Now that Valentine's Day is around the corner, I'm excited to be implementing my themed activities for this holiday of love. (Too cheesy?) My previous post was about Valentine's BINGO, a musical game I use with my tween and teen clients. Be [...]
I am a BIG fan of using musical games in my music therapy session. I use these games to facilitate social interaction and work on group cohesion with my school-age and teen clients. Today's post is about one of my favorite creations...Valentine's Day BINGO (aka HEART)! Here's how it works: 1. CREATE First, create various [...]
Saturday night was FABULOUS! A group of the Miami Music Therapists gathered at my place for a song swap/idea sharing. This group has gotten together before for a variety of reasons...to jam together, to sing at Open Mic Night, and even just to eat pizza (what could be better than that?) But I think this has been my favorite get-together thus [...]
Paperwork. Ahh one of the great joys of being a music therapist! This blog post is all about goals and objectives and a few things I've learned to make life a little easier in that department. Since my full-time job is in the school setting I work very closely with the teachers and consult the IEPs [...]
Some of my favorite props to use during my music therapy sessions is my homemade rainbow streamers! An intern of mine had shown me the idea a few years ago and now that I'm seeing them buzzing around Pinterest (my newest obsession!) I decided it was time to spread the word to my blog readers. It [...]
Now that the new year is in full swing, I've had some time to think about the goals I have for myself. In my post, Patience, Productivity, and Presence, I talked about those 3 words in more detail and how they will guide me through the new year. Regarding my goals for myself, I'm taking [...]
