Music Therapy

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I am a board certified music therapist who specializes in adults with anxiety, depression, and trauma-related issues.

Life can be incredibly challenging. Feelings of pride, distress, alienation, and inadequacy all give rise to existential dilemmas regarding the human condition’s complexities. People are deeply uncertain about negative emotions and how to process them. Music can be a place to help us reprocess our neural pathways to live more authentically.
Music expresses human imagination and offers unique opportunities to examine the abstract ideas, concepts, and truths that each person may face. My philosophy emphasizes the individual’s potential, the necessity of communal humanistic values, and the need to live creatively and constructively. We will focus on universally applicable notions of human nature through music, including mortality, justice, accountability, and a higher level of meaning and well-being in one's life. Music carries healing qualities due to its unique phenomenon of processing on both sides of the brain. Music has the extraordinary capability to stimulate our emotions and evoke our memories. When we make music together, our hearts beat together.

Qualifications
  • Credentials:
    • BA in Music Therapy - Montclair State University
    • Board Certified Music Therapist - Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT)
    • Guided Imagery and Music Level 1 - Atlantis Institute for Consciousness and Music
Music Therapy Groups
  • Secular Sounds
    • American Humanist Association
  • Music Healing: Music therapy for Activists
    • Sing In Solidarity & Workers Arts Project
  • I Ain’t Marching Anymore
    • About Face: Veterans Against the War
Rates
I have opted out of participating with insurance companies for reimbursement, which means I’m an out-of-network provider.
All rates are negotiable within reason. No one will be turned away.

Music Therapy
$90 for a 90-minute session / Pay what you can option available
Schedule a free introductory call to Zoom.
I can address any questions regarding music therapy and
how we might use it to develop your Self and improve your psychological well-being.

Groups
$50 flat rate per participant (minimum 4) / Donate extra to support a participant /
Pay what you can option available / May vary upon hosting organization

Online Meditation Group
$100 suggested donation for a 10 day course / Donate extra to support a participant
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Online Meditation Group

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I teach a syncretic, non-theistic approach to mindfulness that aims to better understand our inner experience through investigating three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and non-self. Many teachings and practices approach our perceived reality through a framework of communion with oneself and others. By building a greater understanding of time, space, and consciousness as a whole, we can succeed in emergent transcendence. This course aims to teach the fundamental concepts and techniques of insight meditation to foster support and community for a lifetime of practice and investigation.

Mindfulness is not limited to the wealthy.

Courses run for two weeks (10 days) M-F from 10 am ET / 7 am PT. I teach individual meditation courses as well.
Basic Instructions
  • Please read this article before the course begins on Monday ARTICLE.
  • Sign in to each class from a desktop or laptop computer. If you only have a tablet, that will be fine.  I recommend not signing in with a cell phone unless you have no other option.
  • Check your computer's Zoom settings before starting the course to run the most recent version of Zoom on your computer. zoom.us 
  • Use earbuds or headphones as these will give you the best quality sound and prevent feedback.
  • Prepare your space so that you are comfortable for each session.
  • Clothing should be loose and comfortable.
  • Meditators can sit on a cushion, cross-legged, or upright in a chair.