Music Therapy

I have 7 years experience as a music therapist in the New York area. I am licensed and board certified.

In music therapy, music is used as a tool and in relationship with a therapist to help with self expression where words fail.

I studied and practiced music therapy in graduate school and believe in offering a creative approach to therapy. Often times, accessing creativity can provide a wonderful and necessary healing and emotional outlet. I have been a musician for as long as I can remember, and specialize in connecting clinical needs to music.

Creative practices can often be a safer and more direct way of expressing, experiencing and understanding the most challenging emotions. I integrate my experience as a performer in Jazz, improvised and World music as well twenty years of zen practice into a unique and effective approach to therapy. Using both verbal psychotherapy and creative art mediums in a safe and supportive environment I work to guide the therapeutic process towards achieving a client's unique goals.

I completed by degree in music therapy and have been a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) since 2014. My work has included facilitating group music making, listening to preferred or meaningful songs, music-assisted relaxation, and songwriting for families coping with chronic and terminal illness, children’s bereavement groups, and intergenerational support.

Morgan is a Board Certified Music Therapist with experience working with individuals and groups from children to older adults working on goals from community building to emotional self regulation. Music therapy can look like drumming together to practice healthy communication skills, creating playlists to develop ones personal identity, songwriting to find closure on the past and explore hope in the future, and much more.

Music has a unique way of interacting with the brain in order to achieve non-musical goals in just about any domain. It is an evidence-based practice and can often be the missing puzzle piece when addressing a problem or finding a solution. You do not need to be skilled in music in order to benefit from music therapy, nor is musical training the intended outcome. We’ll work together to create a treatment plan that harnesses the power of music to help you reach your goals.

I have been a practicing Creative Arts Therapist for 20 years and have both a Bachelor's and a Master's in music therapy.

SSP Trained and Certified

As an MT-BC and LCAT, I am so fortunate to be able to offer music therapy and other creative arts modalities into my practice. I have an office space filled with instruments that you don't need any musical experience to explore, just a willingness to see what comes up for you in exploration, whether that's through music listening, imagery that emerges, active improvisation or using music and sounds to express emotion and to access emotion. Music can get to your issues faster than only talk.

I am a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board Certified Music Therapist since 2006. I have additional training in Analytical Music Therapy, involving the symbolic use of music making to work towards bringing meaningful long term change.

I am a Board Certified Music Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. I consider our relationship with music and how it connects us to our cultural selves, how it shows up in the rhythms of our days, and how the non-verbal and creative aspect of it can connect us to our subconscious and things we don't have words for.

All the therapists with Get In Tune Music Therapy are board-certified music therapists. The American Music Therapy Association defines music therapy as a clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.  According to neuroscience research, music therapy supports emotion regulation and decreases negative affect and depressive symptoms.

Music therapy is a powerful medium. Unique outcomes are possible. In music therapy, each individual is provided support and encouragement in the acquisition of new skills and abilities. Because music touches each person in so many different ways, participation in music therapy offers opportunities for learning, creativity and expression that may be significantly different from more traditional therapeutic approaches.