WHO WE SERVE

Music Therapy and Developmental Delays

Music Therapy can aid in maintaining, enhancing, and improving cognitive skills, motor skills, receptive and expressive communication, attention, self-regulation, social skills, and sensory integration. We have experience with children and adults diagnosed with:

 

child with disability playing drum
mom and sister comforting child with autism holding a guitar

Music Therapy and Autism

Music Therapy can aid in maintaining, enhancing, and improving cognitive skills, such as attention span and focus; motor skills, such as spatial awareness, motor planning and sequencing, directional concepts; receptive and expressive communication, including vocabulary development and speech initiation; emotional skills, such as self-regulation, frustration tolerance and anger management; social skills, such as peer interaction, turn-taking and play skills

Music Therapy and Mental Health

Music Therapy/active engagement in music experiences can effectively address, in a holistic way, the following goals:

                               

women laying down with headphones on
person playing guitar

We have experience with children, adolescents, adults and older adults diagnosed with:

                                   

Music Therapy and Substance Use Disorder

The use of goal-directed music interventions focused on symptom management, fostering relationships with peers and therapists, and providing psychosocial support and education to augment hope, meaning, purpose, and recovery (Carr, Odell-Miller, & Priebe, 2013; Silverman, 2015). We partner the tenets of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) with music therapy techniques (lyric analysis, mindful drumming and vocal work, songwriting) to promote wellness.

Man writing with headphones on
drum with water coming off of it

Music Therapy and PTSD

Music can serve as a non-verbal outlet for emotions associated with traumatic experiences, as well as reduce the anxiety and stress associated with the traumatic event and aftermath. Active engagement in music can lead to enhanced feelings of control, confidence, and empowerment, positive changes in mood and emotional states, as well as positive physiological changes, such as lower blood pressure, reduced heart rate, and relaxed muscle tension

Music Therapy and Dementia

Music Therapy/active engagement in music experiences can assist in maintaining, enhancing and improving:

           

elderly man playing guitar for elderly woman
instructor with elderly dance class

Music Therapy and Parkinsons

Music Therapy/active engagement in music experiences can assist in maintaining, enhancing and improving:

           

Music Therapy and Multiple Sclerosis

Music Therapy/active engagement in music experiences can assist in maintaining, enhancing and improving:

 

women in wheelchair playing piano
women with arms reached back

Music Therapy and Stroke

Music Therapy/active engagement in music experiences can assist in maintaining, enhancing and improving:

         

Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury

Music Therapy/active engagement in music experiences can assist in maintaining, enhancing and improving:

           

women playing piano with elderly woman