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Client Benefits and Goals

Physical

  • Decrease pain and discomfort
  • Decrease tension
  • Decrease shortness of breath
  • Increase range of motion
  • Increase strength and endurance
  • Increase motor accuracy
  • Improve fine and gross motor control
  • Decrease fatigue and recovery time
  • Improve circulation
  • Increase coordination
  • Structure physical interaction
  • Decrease nausea and vomiting
  • Increase comfort/relaxation
  • Increase quantity and quality of sleep
  • Increase energy
  • Assist in normal development

Cognitive

  • Heighten cognitive ability
  • Improve short and long-term memory
  • Increase alertness
  • Improve expressive communication
  • Improve receptive communication and listening skills
  • Increase sensory stimulation
  • Improve or maintain intelligibility of speech (improve accuracy, fluency, clarity, and volume of verbalizations)
  • Increase satisfaction with life
  • Facilitate reminiscence and life review
  • Decrease confusion
  • Improve executive functioning
  • Teach academic or cognitive skills
  • Teach and practice interpersonal, communication, and language skills
  • Increase concentration and attention
  • Enhance auditory processing and sensory processing
  • Decrease sensitivity to sound

Emotional, Spiritual, and Psychosocial

  • Structure social interaction
  • Increase awareness of self and others
  • Improve mood and affect
  • Improve sense of belonging
  • Increase opportunities for personal choice
  • Increase frequency of successful experiences
  • Enhance self-identity
  • Provide emotional and spiritual support
  • Decrease fear, stress, and anxiety
  • Decrease behaviors
  • Increase interest and esteem
  • Provide opportunities for self-expression, processing, and empathy
  • Enhance coping ability
  • Enhance ability to identify and appropriately express emotions

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Board Certification

  • American Music Therapy Association
  • Certification Board for Music Therapy
  • Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy

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  • MT for Wellness
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How Do I Begin Music Therapy Services?

If you would like to find out more about how music therapy may help your loved one or to begin music therapy services, please contact:

Melissa Spiess, M.M., MT-BC
Neurologic Music Therapy Fellow
melissa@livingspirittherapy.com
651-363-3936

If you know you would like to initiate music therapy services please download, print, and complete the referral form.

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Melissa Spiess, M.M., MT-BC

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651-363-3936

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