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Kriste Bouvier of The Designer Health Net Radio Show interviewed Alan about Music Therapy. Listen to the interview.
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Music as Therapy course offered this Summer at Hutchinson Center - June 28 - July 2, 2010 click here for more information.
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Surry Music Therapist Brings Medium, Message to Japan
Ellsworth American December 10, 2009 by Stephen Fay

English playwright William Congreve suggested that:
"Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
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Check the latest update of our schedule of UPCOMING SEMINARS! click here
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Check out our Video Illustration Area, to view music therapy sessions. Keep in mind that each session is different depending on the type of therapy needed.
 

What is Music Therapy?
Individuals with physical, emotional, and cognitive difficulties find that music therapy opens new channels of communication and contact. Music as therapy brings joy, beauty, a smile and laughter as well as a calming and nurturing effect to some clients, while providing an outlet for frustrations for others. It helps to activate and enhance the memory and quality of life for elderly clients.

Music therapists work closely with and support the goals and objectives of psychologists, social workers, counselors, special education and speech, occupational and physical therapists. It is a creative, interactive, clinical, educational and rehabilitative treatment approach.

Music Therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy. It offers freedom of exploration and a new sense of self discovery as clients give sound and energy to emotions and issues that may be painful, confused or blocked. Each client is unique in terms of their psychological issues and special needs. Music therapy can reach clients that are resistant or relatively unresponsive to other treatment approaches.

Alan Wittenberg, Certified Music Therapist, provides individual and group sessions to clients of all ages at the Surry Music Therapy Center, located in Surry, Maine. Alan also visits and conducts music therapy sessions at:

  • schools and universities
  • nursing homes
  • day and residential programs
  • hospitals

throughout the state of Maine. Alan also does conference presentations and training in Japan and Russia at the centers that he founded.

MUSIC touches us when words cannot. It is instinctive and intuitive in all of us, regardless of disability. It reflects who we are and helps us to realize who we can be.

An International seminar at Surry Music Therapy Center
Alan discusses a first of its kind introductory level online music therapy course for The Univeristy of Maine System
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