Service
Music Therapy
Music Therapy is the 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.
Music Therapy is an evidence based health profession in which a supportive client-therapist relationship is combined with music to promote emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual health. Participants can engage in a range of musical experiences, allowing them to express themselves in a way that transcends words; engage in therapeutic conversation using music as a tool; build meaningful connections with peers; collaboratively work on coping skills; work on projects with long term goals; and rest, re-center and ground themselves. Music therapy groups and one-on-one sessions are offered by Crossroads Collective.
Some of the programs we offer are:
6 – 8 years
A) Musical storytelling: Kids create sounds and sing along to musical stories such as Bear Hunt and we use percussion instruments to tell the story. We can also create some of our own instruments to create the sounds effects in our story. CD will be made at the end. Project is created in Garageband.
B) Puppet plays using iMovie: Kids choose a story and recreate it or write an original story with me and then create all the props and backdrops to film a story in iMovie. They narrate their own stories and have their puppets act out each part. Kids are provided a Dropbox link of their finished video project at the end that they can upload to their Youtube Channel if they wish.
C) Picture books: Kids can create their own picture books with me. We sketch things out and make a storyboard and then start to assemble pages into my computer util the manuscript is complete and then have it printed.
Middle Schoolers and above
A) Creative Writing: Cover all the different types of writing based on the interest of the child/teen.
B) Songwriting: Kids make up their own songs with me using Garageband and record their voices – make CD’s.
C) Music Parodies: Making videos of song parodies that they write and act out with me.
D) PSA’s: Kids write PSA’s about subjects they are passionate about and we film.
E) Youtube: Kids set up their own Youtube Channels. (with parent’s permission and we film little videos and upload)
F) Blogging: Kids learn to blog with me – can set up their own blog with parent’s permission.
G) Music Exploration: Singing and playing instruments together.