This is a monthly support group for parents who have children teens, adult children with special needs of any kind. As the parents at the first meeting siad, “It takes a village.” Parents will be discussing issues like Guardianship No cost Diapers IEP’s Potty Training Aloneness Tantrums Respite help Diet/Eating Communicating Needs Safety /Safety locks/Dealing… Read more »

Many years ago, in working with a group of parents and their children, it became apparent the support and direction, parents with special needs can fill for one another.  Parents with children on Many parents with children, of any age with special needs, face very different struggles and dilemmas that their peers with neuro-typical children… Read more »

Back Mountain Musi Therapy has recently been seeing children with attention and focus issues. So this summer we are going to run the first summer series of small group camps for children that have difficulty attending age appropriately. Back Mountain Music Therapy will be running small “attention and focus issues” groups. These groups will run… Read more »

This blog is a precursor to a survey that has gone out on social media. A few years ago, when I was running Music Therapy sessions out of my home, I had a small group of kids I worked with as a group.  The mothers of these children sat at my kitchen table together as… Read more »

Last week I wrote about “Why Music Therapy?”. The idea for this blog post came as I was working on telehealth.  During a telehealth session, I realized how important affect was to our relationship. I noticed how much I utilized the means of emotion in the session to even a greater degree than I had… Read more »