Seven Strategies for Music Mood Regulation (Infographic)
I love reading research that I can implement directly into my clinical work as a music therapist. Here’s an infographic of a great study by Suvi Saarikallio and Jaakko Erkkiä about how people use music in their lives to regulate […]
Connecting with the Music Cognition Community
As a music therapist who’s interested in bridging the gap between the science of music cognition and the art of music therapy, I was super excited to attend the biennial conference of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition […]
Rediscovering Music in Times of Change
They say that “time flies when you’re having fun”, but after the last three months of my life I’m petitioning to change that saying to “time flies when you’re starting grad school”. This is not to say that moving across […]
20 Songs for Music Therapists to Retire
I was watching Downton Abbey reruns and happily humming along to “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” when I realized two things: 1) This episode is set in 1920 and 2) I still use this song with my older adult clients, the majority […]