Always Have a Plan B in Music Therapy

2025-03-26T18:52:11+00:00March 25th, 2025|

Earlier this week, I was taking my morning walk, enjoying the signs of Spring that were along the sidewalk, when all of a sudden the music I was listening to started buffering. For some reason, this brought back a very specific, very visceral memory for me - I was working with a group of teens [...]

A Music Therapist Wearing Many Hats

2025-04-16T19:47:37+00:00March 24th, 2022|

Did I ever mention here that I almost became a K-8 music teacher? My first year at University of Miami I was a music ed major and thought for sure that was the direction I was heading. That is, until I learned about music therapy. My work study job was right next to the Music [...]

A New Year And No Goals

2020-01-04T21:05:00+00:00January 4th, 2020|

Happy 2020! The new year is upon us and it's time for a fresh start. I've enjoyed looking back at my past new year's posts and remembering the accomplishments of those years. But this year, to be honest, I didn't accomplish as much in my business as I had hoped. My two girls are young [...]

Noticing the Little Things (and how my clarinet helped)

2019-09-17T18:31:20+00:00February 21st, 2018|

Yesterday, something happened in one of my sessions that stopped me in my tracks. Now I've been a music therapist for twelve years (!!), and very little surprises me at this point. But on this particular day, I was facilitating a localization exercise with my clarinet in the resource classroom for students with severe and profound [...]

#AMTA17

2017-11-22T15:26:57+00:00November 22nd, 2017|

I returned home late Sunday night from the National Music Therapy Conference in St. Louis, MO. I had so much to tell my husband that I didn't fall asleep until midnight (which for someone who has had a rough go with sleep this past year that's saying a lot!) I had a wonderful time that [...]

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