Bad Bunny’s historic halftime show celebrated many aspects of Puerto Rican culture. As music therapists, it is important to understand cultural values and their impact on our clinical approaches to best support the therapeutic alliance with both the client and the client’s family.             In Melisa de León’s article “Mexican American Values and Therapeutic Alliance in Music Therapy: Composite Vignettes from the Rio Grande Valley”, she accounts her personal experience as

The increased ICE presence in Minneapolis has left many people feeling scared, overwhelmed, and stressed. If you find yourself feeling this way, know that you are not alone, and there are many resources available to you. The following is a list of resources that provide legal support, mental health care, and community support. These resources offer services that you can access and/or ways that you can get involved in the community. Many websites on this list also have more re

Passing the Music Therapist–Board Certified (MT-BC) exam is a milestone many of us dream about from the very first music therapy class. It represents years of coursework, clinical hours, supervision, self-reflection, and growth. Not just as a student, but as a therapist. If you’re preparing to sit for the CBMT Board Certification Exam, take a deep breath. You are closer than you think. Understanding the Exam Itself To earn the MT-BC credential, candidates must pass the CBMT b

Here are some tunes that have been useful to me in sessions, maybe you know them already but if not, these are good’uns! “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” written in 1978 by Jeff Moss and performed on Sesame Street by Ernie (Jim Henson). This song was re-introduced to me by Erin Frees, MT-BC when I was interning at Children’s Minnesota. She utilized it as a lullaby to help encourage rest. I say re-introduced because I remember playing it once or twice at random gigs with lo