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Introducing Creative Music Therapy Studio...
Creative Music Therapy Studio (CMTS) is a music therapy program located in the Flatiron district of mid-town Manhattan. It was conceived and founded by music therapists who saw the need to expand the availability of music therapy services in New York while maintaining the highest professional, clinical and ethical standards. Sessions began on February 22, 1999.
The mission of CMTS is the enhancement of opportunities for human development through the provision of music therapy services of the highest quality. As such, we are dedicated to the health and well being of children and adults of all functioning levels. We also seek to inform the community at large, and health professionals working and living within the community, of the nature, benefits and availability of this marvelous intervention.
Staff members at CMTS have graduate level training and degrees, board certification in music therapy, and extensive clinical experience with a variety of populations. In addition, they all have advanced training and certification in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and retain professional affiliation with the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University. They have presented their in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia and have written for and edited major professional publications in the field.
The approach used at CMTS is based on the Nordoff-Robbins/Creative Music Therapy approach to music therapy developed through the partnership of Paul Nordoff, an American pianist-composer, and Clive Robbins, an English special educator. This approach is music-centered, in that it views music as the essential feature of the therapy. In practice, it involves active and creative music making by therapists and clients, much of it improvisational. The music that is created spontaneously by and for the client(s) in each session is a vibrant interpersonal interaction in which music is the major -- sometimes the only -- means of communication. With the skillful intervention of the therapist, this ongoing collaboration and the songs and improvisations that are its products become the basis of the therapy and define its course. Gains in areas such as socialization, communication, motor skills or self-image/esteem can ensue and be mirrored in personal and family life. Nordoff-Robbins Creative Music Therapy is continuously evolving as its practitioners adapt its salient features -- musicality, spontaneity, creativity, flexibility -- to new clinical challenges. The therapists at CMTS are at the forefront of this development.
Participation in music therapy at CMTS requires no special musical skill or preparation on the part of the client. Neither does it require any specific level of physical, intellectual or emotional development. Music therapy is used successfully with clients whose development is considered typical and with those whose deficits are considered profound. |
Biographies: |
Ann Turry, MA, MT-BC, NRMT, holds a Master's Degree from New York University and advanced clinical certification in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Ann has worked with a wide variety of populations during her 16 years as a music therapist and has a broad range of experience with children and adolescents. She developed the Ira Sohn Memorial Music Therapy Program at Tomorrows Children's Institute (TCI) at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey where she worked with children with brain tumors as part of the neuro-oncology team. She has lectured on her work with around the United States as well as in Europe, Canada and Asia and has published in various formats, including book chapters and scholarly articles on the use of clinical improvisation with children undergoing painful medical procedures. Ann has served in several capacities for the music therapy association, including as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Music Therapy, the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association, as Vice President for Conference Planning, and on various Task Forces and committees. Currently, she maintains a private clinical supervision practice in the New York metropolitan area. She is a Co-Founder and the Program Coordinator of Creative Music Therapy Studio in New York. |
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David Marcus, MA, CMT, NRMT, began the practice of music therapy in 1984 after several years as a professional musician. For the next 15 years he worked with psychiatric patients at units of the New York State Office of Mental Health: Manhattan Psychiatric Center and Bronx Psychiatric Center. He has presented on music therapy in psychiatric treatment in these and other psychiatric facilities around the state. After completing his certification in the Nordoff-Robbins approach in 1997, he joined the staff at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at NYU. David served as Editor-in-Chief of Music Therapy, the scholarly journal of the American Association for Music Therapy, for five years. He is also the author of numerous scholarly publications. David is a Founding Co-Director of Creative Music Therapy Studio. |
John Mahoney, MM, MA, MT-BC, NRMT, AMT, graduated from Hartt College of Music and went on to complete an MM at the Manhattan School of Music. Later, as a member of the faculty at MSM, he received the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Teacher Recognition Award. After two decades of work in settings ranging from Broadway theatre productions, to Grammy Award-winning recording studio work, to Monte Carlo, to Carnegie Hall, John eventually became interested in the possibilities inherent in music as a therapeutic medium and he attended New York University to complete a Masters Degree in Music Therapy. After earning postgraduate clinical certification in both the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and Analytical Music Therapy approaches, he joined the staff at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center at NYU, where he works with children, adolescents, and adults. He has presented and taught nationally and internationally. John is a Co-Director of Creative Music Therapy Studio and he is presently working towards a Ph.D. in Music Therapy at Temple University.
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