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Size Matters – 4 Questions to Help Set the Best Group Therapy Size
Group therapy works, but size matters. Here are four ways to determine the optimal size for your therapy groups
4 Reasons Music Should be Your Drug of Choice in 2018
Feelings are at the root of every drug (or music) choice we make. Music can boost your mood, dull your pain, increase your focus, and build your brain. Want to know more?
4 Ways Music Therapy Can Improve Social Bonds
Although music can certainly be enjoyed alone, when used within a music therapy context it can also help improve feelings of social bonding.
3 Ways a Consulting Music Therapist can Boost Workplace Productivity
Music at work can make us feel productive, creative, or inspired, or have the opposite effect. Learn how a music therapist can help.
4 Reasons Lost Memories Can Live Again With Music Therapy
How science can guide music therapists to support their client’s desired goals and growth related to memory.
Music to our Ears – 4 ways Music Therapy supports those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Today, individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing are listening and appreciating music as a result of the tremendous advancements in technology.
3 Reasons To Learn to Play Music at Anytime in Your Life
One weekend when I was 8 years old I woke up to a piano being carried into my living room by two burly men. Within weeks of the piano being delivered a man by the name of Mr. Nicholwitz arrived. He was introduced to me as my piano teacher. Mr. Nicholwitz would arrive...
Music Therapy in Palliative Care – Strong Partners in Healthcare
25 years has passed since I entered my first palliative care room. Today, like all the other days in the past, I was unfamiliar with the person I was about to meet - all I knew as I walked through her door was that her name was Sheryl and she was the same age as I...
Music Therapy and Autism
In 1991, the first year of JB Music Therapy, AUTISM was still spoken about as a rare, life long, institutionalized disorder. Autistic disorder is rare, occurring in fewer than five children per ten thousand births, but with few exceptions, it leads to a life of...
Music Therapy and Mental Health
Many people, young and old, are living with a wide array of physical and emotional needs: decline in motor functioning, social isolation, depression, anxiety, confusion, lack of focus, stress and physical pain…. For Brad, chronic PTSD and depression robbed him of...