The Mindful Music Therapist

Some days I come home from work feeling as if my clients all hate me. Now don't all jump in with the "oh, come on, they don...

I've been sitting and stewing over the fact that one of my clients decided not to come to his session yesterday. Obviously, it's no...

The session that wasn't: Walking to the session. Pausing to pull me toward somebody's car and tapping on the trunk: ...

If you're a person who has been reading this blog, then you know I make liberal use of songs that emerge as a part of music therapy sess...

As I thought further about Video Journal #1 I did some writing about it and this is the song that emerged from that bit of processing.  ...

Image by fabbriciuse via Flickr I'd love to be able to explain why I haven't been writing any blog posts of late, but I'm not ...

Image by cotton_man via Flickr Okay, this may seem like a weird thing to blog about, but I'm doing it anyway.  I was contemplating t...

Image by gynti_46 via Flickr Periodically, when I'm minding my own business and doing a music therapy session, I will have the experien...

I noticed the word " here " came into my mind rather loudly as I accompanied W's breathing on the piano. Then..." I want ...

Image by Barnaby via Flickr I have finally come to the realization that every single one of us has the private belief that we know the ri...

One of the scarier things about being a music therapist is that sometimes we get hurt on the job by our clients. This is something I've ...

Lately I've noticed myself absolutely dragging through my sessions with a group of guys I've been working with for a long time. Ther...