The Secret Ingredient to Child Engagement

Does your child have difficulty staying engaged with you? Do they not interact with you at all? Or maybe your child does interact with you, but the interaction is very short? Well, you are not alone! There is a vital step that your child has to take before they can leap into an interaction with… Read more »

Great Lessons learned from BMMT Intern

Back Mountain Music Therapy has continued to grow in it’s practice. We have been very fortunate to have a number of interns to work and learn with. Bridget McCormick is out current intern.Bridget has been with us for a little while and is coming upon the last 1/3rd of her internship. Learn a little about… Read more »

A Podcast collaboration with Music Therapy Chronicles

Trish Caiati’s Music Therapy Chronicles Podcast is another great Music Therapy resource.  Please check out her interview with Back Moutain Music Therapy about our Bottom Up approach to working with our clients. Music Therapy Chronicles Ep 31, Bottom Up Approach: Antoinette Morrison, MT-BC

Music Therapy, Bottom Up Method, Feeding the Senses

One of the many areas of need worked on during Music Therapy sessions at Back Mountain Music Therapy are sensory processing issues. These issues are often found in people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorder, Smith-Magennis Syndrome, Rubinstein-Tayebi Syndrome, Cornelia De Lange Syndrome, Auditory Processing disorder and a host of other developmental syndromes.  Sensory processing disorders… Read more »

The Buisness Grows, Others Speak

Back Mountain Music Therapy, The Heyward Rooms has moved and grown. We are hosting our 4th intern now and have had 4 subcontractors in the last 3-4 years. The business has stretched its wings, and although we have written mostly about autism, we have always worked with populations with needs beyond the spectrum. It has… Read more »

Goal Attainment Scaling: A Method for Evaluating Progress toward Developmentally Based Music-Centered Treatment Goals for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder JOHN A. CARPENTE,

Often people think Music Therapy is not “Evidenced Based.” Here is some research on evaluating developmentally-based, music centered treatment goals. I often refer to Dr. Carpente’s website, “Developmental Music Health Services” (http://dmhmusictherapy.com/) for information. Currently, I am being supervised by Dr. Carpente to learn even more. Here is his research on writing and attaining Music… Read more »

“The Evolution of a Music Therapist” by Kimber Batzel

Once again, Back Mountain Music Therapy is taking to the internet. The business has been busy and is looking to update. The owner (myself, Antoinette Morrison) has been busy working in schools, seeing private clientele, supervising at Marywood University and mentoring interns that have completed their academic work and are doing their mandatory internship hours… Read more »

Allowing Clients to Wander

As business has been expanding and the academic year is well established, an issue that is initially hard for students to understand in a productivity-oriented society, is allowing clients to “wander” in therapy.  There have been times my students have referred to this as clients “being bored”.  My reply is:  “Perhaps, but this is a… Read more »