Philadelphia Music Therapy

07/03/2025

Philadelphia can fund a living wage for our municipal workers and programs for the people, but the mayor and most of city council chose cops and billionaires instead. Rest assured we will keeping pushing back and keep taking care of each other. Fairness for workers = a healthy city.

06/21/2025

https://montanafreepress.org/2025/06/19/how-educators-on-the-blackfeet-reservation-are-using-very-heavy-metal-to-prevent-su***de-and-process-grief/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLC18dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHh1jQaJ9Vk2-OFRM4UqwnPfyex0_wtwtXxMNxv7G6gDWJJiU3qc779oDzNSI_aem_C3AOy-f2NwO_i7V0LNbgtg

A new class on the Blackfeet Reservation helps students engage with art to cope with distress and make meaning from pain.

06/16/2025

Here is an updated list of continuing education options. Image: light green background, little photo of me playing my red bass while flipping my hair, text:

Reflexive Music Therapy
7 credits (3 ethics) $60

Censorship and Music Therapy
4 credits (3 ethics) $45

Creating Music for Stress Management 4 credits $45

Use of Garageband in Music Therapy
4 credits $45

Spontaneous Songwriting in Mental Health Care
2 credits $30

Clinical Supervision $70
details: philadelphiamusictherapy.com)

06/11/2025

Image: center city skyline, no filter. Text: A measure of a good therapist is not how much the clients did, shared, progressed, etc. It's how safe they felt with you.

06/09/2025

NEW CMTE! This took me forever to get together and I'm so excited to have it completed! It opens up June 15th!
Thanks to and for helping me develop some of these ideas and for straight up teaching me some of them too.

Image one: green with a little photo of Audrey: Reflexive music therapy
7 credit, Self Study CMTE
3 ethics credits
06/15/25-06/15/26
$60
free as a form of reparations to
Black and Indigenous Music Therapists
see full details at www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com
Image 2:
Reflexive Music Therapy
7 credits, self-study
How can music therapists let go of rigidity, control, and over planning and lean into empowering, accepting, and trusting clients? This 7-credit (3 ethics) self-study explores how to co-create session structures, objectives, and experiences in the moment with the clients, by being reflexive to their needs and preferences. Materials include a 5-hour video with accompanying slides, a self-study work sheet, and a reflexive session planning worksheet for students and interns. This course is designed for professional music therapists, music therapy supervisors, and advanced students.
Audrey Hausig, MMT, MT-BC is in her 25th year of music therapy practice with a focus in mental health with people of all ages. She aspires to practice and teach from anti-oppressive frameworks.
This course will be open from 06/15/2025-0615/2026 Cost: $60
This course is free for Black and Indigenous Music Therapists and Black and Indigenous Music Therapy Students as a form of reparations. (Use the code “reparations” at check-out) Need based scholarships are available. (Full refunds are available until the video links and handouts are sent out at which time payment is nonrefundable) Register: www.philadelphiamusictherapy/store or philadelphiamusictherapy@gmail.com
Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
-Identify 3 reasons to empower clients to lead the session planning process. (II,D,1, 2c)
-Identify 2 ways to collaborate with clients on choosing a session focus. (II, D, 1, 9)
-Identify 2 potential challenges to centering clients in session planning. (II, D, 1, 8,)
“Reflexive Music Therapy” is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 7 Continuing Music Therapy Education credits and 3 ethics credits. Philadelphia Music Therapy -203 maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria. In addition, the provider is solely responsible for the registration process for this program, including pricing.)

06/09/2025

05/29/2025

https://phillydaily.com/news/2025/may/29/music-therapists-push-for-official-recognition-in-pennsylvania/

Bipartisan bills introduced in Pennsylvania seek to establish state licensure for music therapists, aiming to improve public safety, retain professionals, and expand access to care.

05/24/2025

P❤️l3stine Solidarity Porch on Saturday 5/31, 2-5pm. 4514 Chester Ave. It's unspeakably sad that it's the second year we're having to do this. Come out to help raise funds for the Middle East Children's Alliance with Luca, Elijah Cole, Truth Serum-lite (2/3 of my band) Anthony Aldissi Quintet, and Leila Delicious.

05/20/2025

Politics directly impact the people we work with and our communities in general. It's not enough to just show up and try to do damage control in your sessions.

Philly go vote today. I'm voting Krasner because he locks up less people and I see the intense pain and trauma incarceration causes our entire city (excluding the people making money off it) I'm voting yes on all the questions because people shouldn't be dying, much less hurt, (much less there at) all while incarcerated, because unhoused people have rights, and because developers have obligations.

(Image: Philly skyline and a march with a Congolese flag, watermelon signs, and signs reading "they are all our children" and "let G@z@ live". Text: Therapists have an ethical obligation to resist what harms people inside and outside of the therapy space.

March, educate, fundraise, create, speak out, take care of each other, vote, organize, pay reparations,
call electeds, give testimony,
raise rebel children.)

05/04/2025

I was fortunate to grow up in a home where we were taught that the politics of the United States are for war and oppression and not to take care of the people. Still, it was a shock to start working in healthcare and experience first hand how awful being are treated. It also took me a while to accept the limits of what I could do in the therapy space within oppressive and underfunded healthcare systems. We have to prepare our student therapists for this and hold space for them to grieve and find their way. (image: philly skyline in a n artsy filter with teh text: If you operate without understanding that healthcare is political and the US values colonization and white supremacy over taking care of people, you are more prone to burn out.

You'll be less effective as a therapist because you ignore the oppressive systems that make people unwell and keep them from healing.

You'll blame and resent yourself or the clients for lack of progress instead of blaming, resenting and resisting the systems that are the root cause.)

04/11/2025

Go Kerry!