Musicothérapie Tournesol

02/24/2022

Www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/how-music-therapy-can-help-anxious-children

Many children and teens are feeling socially anxious after the forced isolation COVID has created. Music therapy can help.

“Using improvisation in a safe setting helped with the idea of making things up as you go along, and feeling more comfortable with this concept. To all intents and purposes, that is essentially what many social situations require.”

As many as one in eight UK children aged five to 19 faces a mental health challenge. Here's how music can help.

11/15/2021

(VISUAL DESCRIPTION: A graphic with a rainbow coloured background with the words: Anti-Oppressive Music Therapy? Clients are perceived as being specialists of their own lives (Baines, 2013). In order to practice AOP music therapy, a music therapist must, “seek to change the system and other societal oppressive structures that negatively affect universal developmental potential,” (Baines, 2013, p. 4). There is a cartoon of four people holding each other looking at a firework in the bottom left of the graphic.)

Anti-oppressive practice (AOP) describes a theoretical orientation found in the helping professions which believes that the core of clients’ issues is related to systems that perpetrate inequal power dynamics (Baines, 2007).

AOP grew out of the work of Black and Indigenous feminist psychotherapists, counsellors and social workers who found that feminist therapeutic paradigms were predominantly Eurocentric and did not acknowledge the intersections between marginalized identities (Timothy & Garcia, 2020). AOP assumes that the different systems of oppression like racism, ableism, colonization, colourism, misogyny, transphobia and heteronormativity are important to the therapeutic work itself (Scrine & Stanger, 2019). It understands that the therapy room does not inherently dissolve these power dynamics and that therapists must work to create level ground in session by addressing the systems at play (Baines, 2007). It believes that there are no objective contexts within which therapy operates and that every therapist must think about how our actions in therapy uphold or challenge unjust systems (Brown, 2019).

10/15/2021

(VISUAL DESCRIPTION: A graphic with pastel rainbow coloured background with the question: Do you know what happens in a music therapy session? Yes! NO!)

Music therapy sessions may include musical improvisations about feelings, situations, or themes, singing or playing meaningful pre-composed songs, creating purposeful playlists, songwriting, listening and talking about music, playing percussion or electronic instruments, or playing musical “games” …

Basically, there is no “typical session” because every music therapy session is different!

Music therapists follow the unique in-the-moment needs of our clients.

Musical explorations can allow clients to express their feelings, ideas, and experiences. Music therapists listen and support what clients express through active listening, verbal reflections, and through their own music-making.

What did you think happened in a music therapy session?

10/11/2021

Mariah Blaine-Longo MTA is a member of the Pride Therapy Network https://pridetherapynetworkmontreal.com/home/. She participates in ongoing training and regular group supervision to offer culturally informed, accessible, and affirmative services to members of sexual and gender diverse communities.

Mariah Blaine-Longo MTA est membre du Pride Therapy Network https://pridetherapynetworkmontreal.com/home/. Elle participe à des formations continues et à des supervisions de groupe régulières afin d'offrir des services culturellement informés, accessibles et affirmatifs aux membres des communautés sexuelles et de genre diverses.

The Pride Therapy Network of Montreal is a collective of independent mental health practitioners who have come together in order to offer culturally informed, accessible, and affirmative services t…

10/11/2021

🌻🎼Welcome to Musicothérapie Tournesol🌻🎼

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ENG:

Are you looking to find music therapy for yourself, your child, teenager, or your family? Musicothérapie Tournesol offers support to residents of the greater Montreal area. We can help people express themselves when words are not enough or inaccessible. Through creative musical explorations in the context of a therapeutic relationship, people can develop new coping skills and reconnect to themselves. We support people with numerous needs, such as psychosocial, emotional, and behavioural concerns.

Using instrumental and vocal improvisations, songwriting, lyric analysis, drumming, music-assisted relaxation, electronic music, and many other kinds of music-making and music-listening, we work with clients to discover how they can use music to achieve their personal goals and support their overall health. Clients’ needs, preferences, and strengths determine the course of their experiences in music therapy.

Finding a therapist can be difficult, please contact us if you have any questions.

🌻🎼Bienvenue à Musicothérapie tournesol.🌻🎼

FR:

(English version above)

Que vous cherchiez une thérapie pour vous-même, votre enfant ou adolescent, votre famille, ou votre organisation nous sommes contents que vous êtes tombé ici. Musicothérapie Tournesol offre un soutien aux résident.e.s de la grande région de Montréal. Nous pouvons aider les gens à s'exprimer lorsque les mots ne suffisent pas ou ne sont pas accessibles. Grâce à des explorations musicales créatives dans le contexte d'une relation thérapeutique, les gens peuvent développer de nouvelles capacités d'adaptation et se reconnecter à eux-mêmes. Nous soutenons les personnes ayant de nombreux besoins, tels que des problèmes psychosociaux, émotionnels et comportementaux.

À l’aide à des improvisations instrumentales et vocales, de l’écriture de chansons, de l’analyse des paroles, de la relaxation guidée par la musique, de la batterie, de la musique électronique et de nombreux autres types d’écoute et de création musicale active, nous travaillons avec nos client.e.s pour découvrir comment ils.elles peuvent utiliser la musique pour atteindre leurs objectifs personnels et favoriser leur santé globale. Les besoins, les préférences et les points forts des client.e.s déterminent le cours de leurs expériences en musicothérapie.

Trouver un.une thérapeute peut être difficile, prenez votre temps et contactez-nous pour toute question que vous pourriez avoir.

09/26/2021

Music therapy can be a great tool to cope with the psychological impact of the pandemic!

La musicothérapie peut être un outil formidable pour faire face à l'impact de la pandémie !

Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can't. "Music is this portal," says one therapist and COVID-19 long-hauler.

09/26/2021

🎼🌻Meet the music therapist! 🌻🎼

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Mariah is a certified music therapist- MTA. She holds a master’s degree and graduate diploma in music therapy from Concordia University. She has worked with a variety of clinical populations and is experienced working with 2SLGBTQIAP*+ (Q***r and Trans*) neurodiverse and neurotypical children, adolescents, and adults with mood and anxiety difficulties, behavioural disorders, experiencing life transitions, grief/bereavement, and who have histories of complex/cultural/intergenerational trauma. She also works in a social pediatrics centre with new immigrants, refugees, families living in difficulty, and children/teenagers in care. She is committed to anti-racism, anti-ableism, and anti-oppressive practices. This means that she understands that the therapy room does not inherently dissolve power dynamics created by colonial systems. She integrates these social justice commitments through all of her clinical work.

MTA #1199 (Music Therapist Accredited- Canadian Association of Music Therapists) & MT-BC- #16681 (Music Therapist Board Certified- Certification Board for Music Therapists), MA- Master of Arts in the Creative Arts Therapies- Music Therapy (Concordia University), Gr. Dip. – Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy (Concordia University), B. mus.- Bachelor of Music: Voice (McGill University)

🎼🌻Rencontrez la musicothérapeute!🌻🎼

Mariah est une musicothérapeute certifiée- MTA. Elle est titulaire d'une maîtrise et d'un diplôme d'études supérieures en musicothérapie de l'Université Concordia. Elle a travaillé avec diverses populations cliniques et a de l'expérience auprès d'enfants, d'adolescents et d'adultes neurodivers et neurotypiques, 2SLGBTQIAP*+ (Q***r et Trans*), rencontrant des difficultés d'humeur et d'anxiété, des troubles du comportement, vivant des transitions de vie, des deuils, et ayant des antécédents de traumatismes complexes/culturels/intergénérationnels. Elle travaille également dans un centre de pédiatrie sociale avec des nouveaux immigrants, des réfugiés, des familles en difficulté et des enfants/adolescents pris en charge. Elle est engagée dans des pratiques antiracistes, anti-ableistes et anti-oppressives. Cela signifie qu'elle comprend que la salle de thérapie ne dissout pas en soi les dynamiques de pouvoir créées par les systèmes coloniaux. Elle intègre ces engagements de justice sociale dans l'ensemble de son travail clinique.

MTA #1199 (musicothérapeute accréditée- Association canadienne des musicothérapeutes) & MT-BC- #16681 (musicothérapeute certifiée- Certification Board for Music Therapists), MA- Maîtrise ès arts : Thérapie par l’art – Musicothérapie, (Concordia University), Gr. Dip. - Diplôme d'études supérieures en musicothérapie (Université Concordia), B. mus.- Baccalauréat en musique : Voix (Université McGill)

09/26/2021

Welcome!
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(version française à suivre)

Musicothérapie Tournesol offers support to residents of the greater Montreal area. Music therapy can help people express themselves when words are not enough or inaccessible. Through creative musical explorations in the context of a therapeutic relationship, people can develop new coping skills and reconnect to themselves. We support people with numerous needs, such as psychosocial, emotional, and behavioural concerns.

Using instrumental and vocal improvisations, songwriting, lyric analysis, drumming, music-assisted relaxation, electronic music, and many other kinds of active music-making and listening, we work with clients to discover how they can use music to achieve their personal goals and support their overall health. Clients’ needs, preferences, and strengths determine the course of their experiences in music therapy.

Finding a therapist can be difficult, please contact us with any questions you may have.

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Bienvenue !

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Musicothérapie Tournesol offre du soutien aux http://xn--rsident-bya.es/ de la grande région de Montréal. La musicothérapie peut aider les gens à s'exprimer lorsque les mots ne suffisent pas ou sont inaccessibles. Grâce à des explorations musicales créatives dans le contexte d'une relation thérapeutique, les gens peuvent développer de nouvelles capacités d'adaptation et se reconnecter à eux-mêmes. Nous soutenons les personnes ayant de nombreux besoins, tels que des problèmes psychosociaux, émotionnels et comportementaux.

À l’aide à des improvisations instrumentales et vocales, de l’écriture de chansons, de l’analyse des paroles, de la relaxation guidée par la musique, de la batterie, de la musique électronique et de nombreux autres types d’écoute et de création musicale active, nous travaillons avec nos client.es pour découvrir comment ils.elles peuvent utiliser la musique pour atteindre leurs objectifs personnels et favoriser leur santé globale. Les besoins, les préférences et les points forts des client.es déterminent le cours de leurs expériences en musicothérapie.

Trouver un.e thérapeute peut être difficile, prenez votre temps et contactez-nous pour toute question que vous pourriez avoir.

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