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How to Become a Music Therapist

July 28, 2009

So, you interested in music therapy? Think you have what it takes? A music therapist’s training is fairly unique as it incorporates coursework in music (obviously!), psychology and therapy, anatomy and physiology, the biological, social and behavioral sciences, and disabilities. I like to say that, as a music therapist, I am a musician, scientist, and […]

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7 Simple Ways to Calm an Angry Child

July 23, 2009

We’ve all made this mistake. It’s human nature. Evolution, really. We can’t help it. We’re wired to respond this way. A child gets angry. The child cries, yells, hits, pinches. Our blood pressure rises. Our voice gets louder. We get in their face so they pay attention to us. We bark at them. Does this […]

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Read All About It! The New Music Therapy Scope of Practice

July 21, 2009

Music therapists are nationally board-certified. Any music therapist you work with should have an MT-BC (“Music Therapist – Board Certified”) credential, which indicates that person has met appropriate education and training criteria, both musical and clinical. Our certification board (appropriately named the Certification Board for Music Therapists, or CBMT) oversees our MT-BC credential. Not only […]

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On the Virtues of the Autoharp

July 16, 2009

I hurt my finger on vacation. A marble bathroom sink top fell and tore off the top of my left hand ring finger (though not completely off…the ER doctor was happy my fingertip was “still attached”). It took four stitches to hold my finger together. They just got removed this week. I can do most […]

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The Importance of Being…Selfish

June 25, 2009

I am taking a short hiatus from publishing new posts. Well, not for long – just for two weeks while I am on vacation. We’ll be spending time with family on a beautiful lake. I plan on reading, playing with my kids (which is surprisingly hard to do in our everyday life), relishing the sun, […]

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7 Marketing Tools for the Private Practitioner

June 18, 2009

It’s a given. Every business owner needs to market their product or service. You may be the best music therapist in town, but if no one knows about you, you won’t have any customers. No customers = no business = no money. Some people make a careers in advertising and marketing. But this is not […]

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POLL RESULTS TO Attention All Therapists: An Ethical Question

June 17, 2009

Last week, I posed a question to all the therapists out there. The question was an ethical one: what do you do when the beliefs of a family clash with the nature of your client, who happens to be a child? What’s your role as a therapist in this situation? I posted a survey, asking […]

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The 3 Facets of a Music Therapist

June 9, 2009

If you visit my company website, you will notice the pictures up top labeled “science,” “music,” “therapy.” I was introduced to this concept in graduate school, the idea that a music therapist encompasses being trained as a musician, a scientist, and a therapist. A true story for you: Yesterday, I was scheduled to facilitate some […]

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How To Tell the Difference Between the Helping Music Professions

June 2, 2009

It seems that the connection between music and healing is popping up a lot these days. Check out this recent story on MSNBC my friend (and fellow music therapist) Ginny Driscoll shared with me. It’s a pretty good story, probably one of the more well-written ones I’ve seen, on how music is being used as […]

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