Alexis Ruffner, MT-BC Parent Connection: Supporting New Parents and Their Infants During COVID-19 Reflecting on her music therapy work with premature infants, Alexis Ruffner noted that few things changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but her newly established Parent...
Mandy Turk, MT-BC The Journey of Virtual Music Therapy During COVID-19 Five years into clinical practice, Mandy Turk faced the challenge of retooling her sessions and offering virtual music therapy services due to the COVID-19 pandemic by mailing out materials with...
Bonnie Hayhurst, MT-BC The Value Add of Virtual Music Therapy Services The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges to the field of music therapy, and small businesses were not exempt. Bonnie Hayhurst, a music therapist in private practice, shares how she...
Edward P. Gallagher, MT-BC Getting Through the Pandemic: Flexibility, Pivoting, and Grace The profession of music therapy has a robust curriculum and solid documents providing professional guidelines and requirements. Yet, everything and nothing prepared music therapy...
Cara Smith, MT-BC Umoja Global Community Music Therapy, Red Bank, New Jersey Transformation can happen in the most surprising places, even under a mango tree in a Ugandan village. In this podcast, Cara Smith tells the story of American music therapists visiting an...
Karen Wacks, EdM, LMHC, MT-BC Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Samite Mulondo Musicians for World Harmony, Uganda, Africa In this podcast, Karen Wacks describes her 2013 partnership with Samite Mulondo. Together they examined the benefits of music...
