JB Music Therapy is a team of certified Music Therapists (MTAs) who collaborate, design and personalize therapy plans with their clients that will foster desired change to boost mood, decrease stress, improve speech or movement after injury, increase focus, develop learning,...
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I entered my first palliative care room as a Certified Music Therapist (MTA) in early 1990s. I was unfamiliar with the person I was about to meet – all I knew as I walked through the door was that her...
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I entered my first palliative care room as a practicing music therapist in early 1990s. I was unfamiliar with the person I was about to meet – all I knew as I walked through the door was that her name was Gwen,...
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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...
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Being aware of your personal soundtrack can have some profound consequences. For Gwen, music enabled her to become all that she could be just a month before she would die. Gwen, a fifty-five-year old, sat in a warmly decorated room...
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Sixteen years ago, on Christmas Eve, the McDonald family lost their mother to cancer. I know this because the family invited me, as a music therapist, to spend the last few, difficult days with them. The following sequence of events...
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