by Amy Thomas | Mar 3, 2011
Beginning March 15th, Upstate Music Therapy Center will be offering a 10-week session of Music Explorers, a music program for children under the age of 3, and their parents. This program is specifically designed to help parents learn how to interact with their children musically. It is a great music enrichment program for typically developing children, as well as children with special needs, led by board certified music therapists. For more information, see the “Music Explorer’s” Link on this website, or contact the agency.
by Amy Thomas | Jan 14, 2011
Check out our “In the News” page for a great article about music therapy and pediatric pain management, co-written by one of our own UMTC therapists. It’s an easy-to-read article for non-music therapists, and it gives a nice overveiw of the basic premises of music therapy, in addition to how music therapy can be used as a part of pain management in children.
by Amy Thomas | Jan 11, 2011
Upstate Music Therapy Center is dedicated to educating the community about music therapy. This includes helping people who are interested in, or are currently pursuing a career in music therapy. We are a clinical training facility, which means we are continuously teaching others about music therapy through community presentations, observation of our work, and experiential opportunities for clinic students to implement aspects of music therapy within a supervised session. This training environment is a “win-win” situation for the Board Certified Music Therapist, student who is being treated, and individual in training as these college students many times bring new and fresh perspectives into the clinical setting.
Want to learn more about our training opportunities? Contact the UMTC office.
by Amy Thomas | Dec 14, 2010
Welcome to Upstate Music Therapy Center’s new website! We are very excited to be able to offer you more convenient access to our agency. Through our site you can see all the services we have to offer, download forms necessary for assessments and music explorer’s registration, and keep up with the latest news from our agency. Our blog will offer a variety of information, including tips for parents and teachers, stories about how and why each of our therapists chose music therapy as a career, latest news about music therapy in the community, heartwarming stories of the impact of music therapy on the lives of our students, and much more. We look forward to pursuing this new adventure with you, and hope to hear from you along the way.
