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Letter to a Future Music Therapy Student

May 18, 2016

There are certain questions I receive on a regular basis as both an educator and a blogger. Hands down the most common question is “how can I become a music therapist” (a question I addressed early in my blogging career). A close second comes from people seriously considering enrolling in a music therapy degree program: […]

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[PsychToday] Music for Productive Creativity

May 6, 2016

Arguably, one of music’s most salient characteristics is the impact it has on our emotions. What if this impact can be used in an intentional way to boost creative flow? I had an interesting conversation last week with an airplane seat mate…read more.

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Music Therapists: Take this WFMT Survey!

April 21, 2016

The World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT) is conducting a survey to obtain “detailed, descriptive, worldwide statistical narrative about the demographics, employment, and clinical facts, which help to describe the music therapy profession.” If you are a music therapist, I encourage you to click this link to take the survey. Though I risk showing a […]

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Ability Doesn’t Occur in a Vacuum

April 14, 2016

I had the distinct pleasure earlier this week to watch a graduate student present to a group of parents on her advanced practicum experience. This student has been working this spring with their children, focusing specifically on facilitating their emotion development. Being that this was a graduate course, this focus went a little deeper than […]

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[PsychToday] Learning about Allison’s Brain

March 24, 2016

I heard a pretty remarkable story last week about a woman named Allison. Allison is a retired music teacher—a highly decorated retired music teacher, too. In 2011, Allison was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, an enlargement of one of the arteries in her brain. An enlargement so big it was the size of a plum. […]

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[PsychToday] Building Bridges: Music Therapy in Hospice Care

March 8, 2016

A beautiful story was published in People magazine recently about a music therapist at Cincinnati Children’s hospital who composes “heartbeat songs” for his clients and their family. These particular clients are unique—they all receive hospice services, meaning these children were given a prognosis of six months or less to live…Read more.

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Why I Blog

February 25, 2016

This month my podcast co-hosts and I posted our 75th podcast episode. We happened to do so during the month of our launch—and it’s been six years! Happy 6-year anniversary to the Music Therapy Round Table podcast! February is also an anniversary for the Maven blog, which I started exactly one year prior to the […]

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[PsychToday] Don’t Stop the Music Learning

February 6, 2016

I had the pleasure last week of serving on a panel following a screening of the BBC documentary Don’t Stop the Music. The film chronicled the journey of professional pianist James Rhodes as he worked to collect enough instruments for one school to begin an orchestra program. The project has grown—according to the website, James […]

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#MTAdvocacy: We Are Not Alone

January 20, 2016

It’s interesting to me how inspiration can strike from the most unlikely sources. I find it particularly intriguing when this inspiration stems from making connections between two seemingly dissimilar ideas. For example, take actress/writer Mindy Kaling and advocacy. No, I’m not kidding, just hear me out… Over the weekend I read Mindy Kaling’s book Why […]

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