Music therapy assessment tools look at every aspect of a patient’s health, including social-emotional, cognitive and physical. I often use the same assessment tools that other therapy modalities use.
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Once goals are developed, I come prepared with musical activities and a rough plan for each session, but am always flexible and open to each individual’s mood and energy on any given day. Often a session will take us in a different direction than my initial plan and that’s fine, even wonderful.
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“I could keep ‘perfecting’ it ad nauseum,” wrote one participant. “Instead, I am being vulnerable and sharing it unfinished, too dramatic at times, a little slow in tempo, and altogether quite imperfect. Yet the process was powerful for me and re-awakened some parts of me that have been quiet for a couple of decades.”
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This holiday season, send a song. It’s a simple, environmentally friendly and totally unique gift.
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My heart was so full from being in the audience, I wished everyone I knew could have experienced it. Particularly some of my clients who are differently-abled or whose bodies don't quite fit around the musical instruments they're trying to play. It can be so discouraging to a) not have the adapted tools necessary to create and b) not have representative role models. But they are out there. And the more opportunities for the general public to see these role models, the BETTER.
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One person has a bunch of excitement and distraction, the other person is at home just… doing stuff. The longer it goes, the more challenging it gets.” This is something that has to be navigated, but it’s not unique to artists. If you love someone, you figure it out.
Read MoreHe called me excitedly when he started working on a new piece that called for hitting the piano strings with a timpani stick. He showed genuine interest in the musical projects I was a part of, even rock music that I guarantee he’d have no interest in musically.
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