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Resolutions for Music Therapists
New Years is routinely a time for reflection of the year gone by, and anticipation of the year to come. In our personal lives, we spend this time dreaming up goals for the…
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American Sign Language and Music Therapy: A Guide to Bringing the Two Worlds Together
https://mtsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/My-Movie-3-copy.mp4 English Translation for Introduction Video: My name is Riley Murray, and I am an intern for Music Therapy St. Pete. I learned ASL last year in college. I support using ASL in…
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AAC: An Open Door for Communication in Music Therapy
Sharing a thought Making a choice Waving hello Paying a compliment Singing a lyric to your favorite song Saying “I love you” to your mom Communication fills our lives yet is something we…
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Summer Reading with MTSP
Check out Music Therapy St. Pete’s Summer Reads! Now that school is out and many of us have a little more room to breathe, enjoy some of our team’s music therapy related book…
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Classical Music as a Structure for Older Adult Groups
Written by MT-BC Amaya Stamm Looking for a new way to structure groups for older adults? Since some of my group members have expressed interest in classical music, I have drawn inspiration from…
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How To Keep Music-Making For You: Personal Music-Making for the Music Therapist
Written by Artemis Xenick There is no doubt that music therapists are passionate about their music. We have each dedicated our lives to the pursuit of using our personal passions to help other…
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Tips To Maintaining Good Musical Habits as New Music Therapists:
Post Written by Kaitlyn Byrd In the field of Music Therapy, we use a lot of instruments! Many of us play piano, guitar, ukulele, percussion, and sing; and that does not include primary…
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How to Make Self Care Yours
During my first few months as an intern at MTSP, I have learned many lessons. Learning how to best practice and maintain my personal self care has been one of the most enlightening…
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Music Therapy and Apraxia: An Online Resource
Check out this blog to read about a new online resource on music therapy and apraxia created by Amaya Stamm, one of our MT-BCs! During the early part of my internship, I met…
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8 Interesting Interventions for School Age Children
Looking for new interventions to bring to your sessions with school age children? Here are a few helpful interventions to try, suggested by MTSP intern, Madalyn Hupf! Instrument Repeat Goals: memory recall and…
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Seeing Your Primary Instrument as a Strength: An Intern’s Experience
Current intern, Amaya Stamm, shares about her experience using her flute in sessions across varying ages and populations in private practice music therapy! How have I used this instrument? Educational Opportunities School-Based: At…
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MTSP x Forging Friendships
On February 4, 2024, Music Therapy St. Pete had the pleasure of collaborating with Forging Friendships, a group of Spellers who come together on Zoom across multiple states through the Meraki Spelling Collective.…
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15 Useful Apps for Internship
If you are about to start internship or are looking for new apps to use for sessions, here is a list of apps I highly recommend! Google Drive This app is great for…
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9 Session Plan Ideas Inspired by International Day of Happiness (March 20)
Written by Amaya Stamm I came across International Day of Happiness while seeking out unusual themes for session plans this month, so here I have shared some of my intervention ideas appropriate for…
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Mental Health of a Music Therapist
Trigger Warning: Before you begin reading, please be aware this blog post contains material on self harm and suicide. I am observing a music therapy session where my supervisor is singing “The Calming…
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October Session Plan (Memory Care)
Looking for session planning inspiration? Recently our MT-BCs, Elise Scullin and Whitney Perry, have been having a lot of fun creating memory care session plans based on the events happening in the month!…
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I Sense So Much!
Looking for a fun way to start conversations about all of the unique things that we hear, see, touch, taste and smell? Check out James Riley’s 5 Senses song! A fun mindfulness technique…
