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Read on for tips and tricks, session ideas, song shares, advocacy videos, app reviews and more from our team of music therapists!

Bibliotherapy in Music Therapy: A Book Review

Bibliotherapy in Music Therapy: A Book Review

"What If" you take a minute to crack open a good book with Miss Sarah? You might just find a new tool to use with some of your clients! As a school-based music therapist, I love adding books into my individual and group sessions. Many children’s books are naturally...

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Spring Song Share

Spring Song Share

Ready for Spring While I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, in northeast Ohio there are signs that Springtime will be here before we know it, and I can’t wait. With every transition into a new season, I think it is common for most to anticipate...

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Favorite Winter Interventions

Favorite Winter Interventions

Greetings! Alex here. This month, I found myself in a rut trying to plan for sessions. It’s typically pretty easy to plan when you have a “theme”, like the holidays. But now that those are over, I’m trying to incorporate fun snow/winter/New Year’s experiences into my...

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Our Favorite Instruments and Props from 2022

Our Favorite Instruments and Props from 2022

Sharing Our Favorites December greetings! The time has passed by so quickly this year...you know what they say about time when you're having fun! Our team wants to thank YOU for being here and helping make 2022 as special as it was. We thought it would be fun to wrap...

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Clinical Language & Perspective Shifts

Clinical Language & Perspective Shifts

Perspective Perspective is a powerful thing. By definition, perspective is a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. We all have our own perspectives that we bring to the table, and these are usually determined by our personal...

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Funding Updates to Ohio Waivers

Funding Updates to Ohio Waivers

Updates to Ohio Waivers As of July 1, 2022 The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities has made some changes to the Waivers for people living in Ohio with developmental disabilities.  We are excited for these changes across the board because it increases the...

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Being a New Professional at a Private Practice

Being a New Professional at a Private Practice

Read on to learn more about Christine’s experience of being a new professional at the Groovy Garfoose!It’s hard to believe I have been working at the Groovy Garfoose for six months already! My first six months as a new professional have been challenging, but so...

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Music Makers is BACK and it’s FREE!

Music Makers is BACK and it’s FREE!

The Groovy Garfoose is THRILLED to be partnering with the Twinsburg Public Library (TPL) to offer FREE music makers groups this fall, with a couple of “teaser” classes this summer.   Music Makers is an inclusive, early childhood music program designed by our team of...

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Using Launchpad Arcade in Music Therapy

Using Launchpad Arcade in Music Therapy

Please extend a warm welcome to our newest team member, Christine O'Keefe, MT-BC!  Read on for her review and recommendations for using the app Launchpad Arcade in music therapy! Technology plays an important role in our daily lives, and has become an integral part of...

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