Programs

Music Therapy

Access this overview to discover the many applications of music therapy, including client populations, benefits, music education dissimilarities, celebrity quotes, licensing issues, and much more.

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Check out the American Medical Association’s inclusion of music therapy.

These photos depict CCTA music therapy sessions with toddlers to older adult.

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Music 4 Life™ Radio Show

Fridays, 12:06 – 12:58pm PST

Create balance in your complex world using Music 4 Life with founder Judith Pinkerton, a board certified music therapist. Stretch your mind to wrap around leading-edge discoveries using the arts for healing. Judith explores inner rhythms which create peace or war, and guides your journey toward positive change recommending creative resources. Learn:

• how to modulate moods to reduce unsettledness
• increase relaxation or energy
• transform life conditions

Music 4 Life is a healing arts conference supporter featuring professionals who practice the art of healing, from music therapists to sound healers and beyond. Check out show archives or participate on the Music 4 Life Radio Show.

Call-in 702-609-7626 to ask important questions about the right music for stress.

Join the Music 4 Life yahoo group to share a story about your music healing experience.  Groups.yahoo.com/group/M4L_Music4Life

Become a radio show sponsor for global outreach about your products or services. Contact us for more information.

Public Education Programs

	The Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, funded, in part, a grant for CCTA to provide education programs for music therapy services. Contact us to schedule CCTA’s programs. Contact us to attend a Thursday program at our office, or download this form and fax to CCTA to schedule a program at your school.

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SOULifters

SOULifters are trained musicians providing music enrichment programs such as drumming circles aka recreational music-making to CCTA’s clients in larger group settings, supervised by music therapists. SOULifters begin as volunteers who may evolve into paid positions, working in a variety of settings that expand CCTA’s outreach into southern Nevada. Contact CCTA to confirm our community partners who offer current SOULifter programs.

Music 4 Life™ Wellness Programs

Don’t need therapy, but still experiencing stress, anxiety, anger, depression or grief? Are you listening to the right music? Discover how to release, transform and manage emotions with your music and music you never thought of. Attend FREE 1-hour seminars to discover the health program formula that will work for you on Thursdays at 5:15pm at CCTA. Or, visit www.music4life.us.

Want more information about implementing Music 4 Life programs? Facilitated by Judith Pinkerton, music therapist, author and violinist, workshops are adapted to participants’ needs, include a workbook, and may provide CEUs for nurses, alcohol/drug counselor, social workers or marriage/family therapists.  iPodology workshops honor the music your instincts crave, launching full support of desirable information to transform your audio files (digital or other) into an accessible health system through a variety of program offerings for emotional control and balance. Access your free online self-assessment here.

"Music4Life workshops opened my mind to the effective use of therapeutic music, professionally and personally. I highly recommend all health care professionals attend these excellent workshops!"
- Cheryl Cornelius, M.S., LMFT, CADA

Art Therapy

Access this overview to discover the many applications of music therapy, including client populations, benefits, music education dissimilarities, celebrity quotes, licensing issues, and much more. Check out the American Medical Association’s inclusion of art therapy.

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National Program Links

CCTA plans to provide all creative arts therapies to Southern Nevadans. We need certified therapists to provide these programs. If you are interested as a musician, visual artist, thespian, writer or dancer in attaining certification in your respective field of talent, access these links to each national association for more information on certification requirements.

Music Therapy
Art Therapy
Dance Therapy
Drama Therapy
Psychodrama Therapy
Poetry Therapy

Agency Contracts and Grants

CCTA provides music and art therapy services to clients referred by the following agencies at multiple sites, and funded by corporate support, or state, city or private foundation grants.

• Adult Day Care Center of Las Vegas
• City of Henderson Parks and Recreation
• Desert Regional Center
• Mojave Child, Adult and Family Services
• Nevada Adult Day Healthcare Centers
• St. Rose Hospitals – San Martin Campus
• Sunrise Children’s Hospital
  

Fees and Funding

CCTA’s music and art therapy sessions are arranged for families and individuals who have requested services once an opening in the schedule is identified. Referrals are often made by other professionals such as physicians, special educators, case managers, and psychologists, although a referral is not required. An intake is conducted by the therapist with the parent or caregiver, followed by an in-office assessment with the client. Individual or group sessions, frequency and treatment plans are recommended from the assessment. Parent contact is maintained throughout therapy.

CCTA offers several options for payment: sliding scale fees (pending grant support), credit card payments, on-site and off-site agency contracts, and insurance reimbursement (Integrated Health Plan). Contact CCTA for specific fee information.

Note: Medicaid waivers are paid in other states, and not in Nevada - yet. Help advocacy efforts here.