what is music therapy

Standing on Our Own Unique Feet

September 13, 2012

A friend of mine recently posted the following quote on Facebook: For years music therapy has been wearing a mask because of our inadequacy to describe and understand her fully. We disguise her in medically acceptable terms. We speak only of observable data. We superimpose statistical formulae, hoping that if we develop the scientific side, […]

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Music IN Therapy vs. Music AS Therapy: My Perspective

March 8, 2012

It was–rather surprisingly–not that long ago that I first heard this question on how music therapy works: is it music AS therapy? or music IN therapy? A couple weeks ago, I invited student music therapist Kyle Fleming to share his thoughts on the topic that were prompted by a class discussion. Below are my thoughts. […]

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Music IN Therapy vs. Music AS Therapy: A Student Perspective

February 22, 2012

The Background Story… It was only a few weeks ago that I first heard the question on how music therapy works: is it music AS therapy? or music IN therapy? A day later, I read a tweet from music therapy student Kyle Fleming that said “Heated discussion about music in v. as therapy. Pretty interesting […]

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Advocacy Comes in Many Forms

February 16, 2012

Although social media advocacy month has ended, I couldn’t help but share this with you after seeing it on Facebook this week: This picture was created by the fabulous Lexie Brown. Thank you, Lexie!

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Do Music Therapists “Own” Music?

June 29, 2011

I received an awesome comment from Maven reader Brid this week. He wrote: Hi Kimberly, I’m perusing your site with particular interest at the moment. I’m actually a ‘nearly’ graduated occupational therapy student (just three weeks from the finish line!) and I’m also a keen musician – I have a MA in performance and a […]

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Music Therapy Is…Music Re-Learning?

June 1, 2011

My husband is a band director and music educator. He first heard about music therapy over 10 years ago–before we met–after getting his first college teaching job. Given his first-hand experience of the power of music, he was very interested in learning about music therapy…and, more specifically, in the difference between music therapy and music […]

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What is a typical music therapy session like?

February 9, 2011

See the title? That’s a question that can’t really be answered. There is no such thing as a “typical” music therapy session. A music therapy session will look vastly different depending on who we work with and where we work with them. That said, there are certain components that are inherent to a music therapy […]

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What is Advocacy? And How You Can Do It

January 19, 2011

It’s all spelled out in this 6 minute video. Enjoy 🙂 Can’t see the video? Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LpWc5SoFNA to catch it on YouTube. Last week, a SLEW of music therapy bloggers posted articles on music therapy advocacy. I’m super excited to share them with you here: CODA Quips shared a story about advocating in everyday […]

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What is Music Therapy? (The Video)

September 24, 2009

I feel like I’ve finally entered the 21st century. Millions have done it before me, but I have procrastinated, putting it off until I felt “ready.” But I finally bit the bullet and buckled down until it was done. I just uploaded my first video to YouTube. In this video I answer the question “what […]

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