The Mindful Music Therapist

We sat together yesterday, our group of seven, on a Monday afternoon. And the curtains in the room were open to the afternoon sun, closed a...

January marks the beginning of our annual Social Media Advocacy campaign, spear headed by the incomparable Kimberly Sena Moore ....

It's Social Media Advocacy Month again, and this year we're talking about connections and the stories we share about music th...

I live in New Jersey, and everywhere I went during the two weeks after mega storm Sandy (work, the grocery store, the library, the gas stat...

I'm thinking that it might be helpful to know where I'm coming from in terms of music therapy advocacy as I share this list of thoug...

Advocating for music therapy is, at its most basic, about telling people who we are, what we do, where we do what we do, with whom and how. ...

Image via Wikipedia We music therapists are always trying to define what we do. Or, more specifically, help other people understand what it ...

Image by doug88888 via Flickr I, rather regularly, receive emails and blog comments from people who are interested in becoming music thera...

Image by alles-schlumpf via Flickr I am slowly reading through a book called, " Music Therapy: Intimate Notes " by Mercedes Pavl...

Florence Tyson is one of the foremothers of music therapy . And, happily, I've been at this long enough to remember her presence at  co...

I think it helped to  acknowledge how frustrated I was feeling  with the guys, because as soon as I was able to do that I felt a lot better....

Every day I go to the institution where I work.  Many of the people I serve, who live there, have autism and everyone has some sort of intel...