About

Thank you for visiting Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy PLLC.

I am excited to share information about all of our amazing music programs designed to help you and/or your loved one learn, grow and develop through music! We are currently offering individual & group music therapy, lessons & classes to help with a variety of challenges.

I am NY State licensed and have been practicing music therapy for over 20 years in hospitals, clinics, schools & private practice. I have also recorded 8 albums of educational and therapeutic music for children and families as the leader of The Bossy Frog Band.

Please contact me for a FREE CONSULTATION on how you or loved one can benefit from music therapy.

how we use music to help learn, grow & develop

Music is a social activity! Through 1:1 and group sessions we use music to build social skills of greetings, taking turns, eye contact, sharing, compromising, making mistakes, asking to play, conversation skills, volume of speech, emotional regulation, labeling feelings & more.

Through specially designed singing and vocalizing activities we can focus on specific language skills. It's fun to use singing to build fluency, language retrieval, articulation and conversational skills.

Music offers many opportunities to develop awareness of feelings, to express feelings non-verbally and to learn tools for self-regulation of feelings. Additional, active engagement in music is personally meaningful and keeps us physically active.

Learning to play an instrument and participate in individual & group music activities can help increase focus and attention skills. We build momentum for success with small increases in focus and attention and build from there.

Music can help retrieve memories when managing dementia or Alzheimer's and can help develop memory skills when dealing with developmental delays or brain injury.

Music making is a healthy constructive recreational activity. If offers opportunities for self-expression and socialization. It is a physical, mental and emotional activity that keeps us moving and learning how to regulate our feelings and physical state.

Whether through grasping a drum stick, playing a saxophone or flute or engaging in specific gross motor dance moves to music, we can help build fine and gross motor skills.

Now offering

Group & Individual sessions
Children, teens & adults
Nyack office or offsite
Handicapped accessible
Waiting room & bathroom onsite
Microphone/PA system

Singing
Guitar
Banjo
Ukulele
Bass
Piano
Drum set
Bass

Saxophone
Flute
Digital recording
Song writing
Social skills groups
Early childhood music classes
Therapeutic lessons