Learn about our client-centered,
interactive music interventions
Music therapy is designed to meet specific goals and improve sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive, communication, and social functioning, while promoting overall health and well-being of individuals. Interventions include but are not limited to singing, playing percussion and other instruments, moving to music, lyric analysis, songwriting, improvising, and using music and rhythm as a cue motivator for movement, behavior, communication, and more.
We provide teletherapy options, so you can get high-quality music therapy, no matter where you live.
No prior musical abilities are necessary to start music therapy.
We help clients with:
PARKINSON’S DISEASE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND OTHER NEUROLOGIC CONDITIONS
We use music and rhythm to help our clients with neurologic conditions with things such as:
- Gait training
- Vocal and breath control
- Motor control
- Memory
- Coping skills
- And more!
STROKE AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES
How does music therapy work in neuro rehabilitation?
We use specific, evidence-based techniques designed to address issues such as:
- Communication disorders- aphasia, apraxia, dysarthria, etc.
- Gait training
- Short and long-term memory
- Focus and attention
- Motor skills and affected side
- Emotional processing and well-being
DEMENTIA
For our clients with Dementia, music therapy can:
- Provide structure and meaningful engagement
- Enhance daily living and quality of life
- Promote communication and self-expression
- Improve mood
- Increase energy
- Encourage physical movement
- Decrease stress and agitation
- Improve social engagement with caregivers
WELL-BEING
Studies have shown that music can:
- Increase cognitive performance and memory
- Reduce stress
- Help manage pain
- Improve endurance and performance
- Improve sleep
- Improve mood and motivation
- And help reduce anxiety and depression
- Improve focus and attention
CONSULTATION AND SUPERVISION
We offer consulting services for those who want to know how to best support others in their specific needs through the use of music. Such as:
- Parents
- Teachers
- Staff
- Therapists
Mella Music Therapy specializes in professional supervision for music therapists needing help with things related to:
- Private practice
- Starting a business
- Or clinical support