Greetings!
I hope this finds you well! So much is in the works this fall with BlissMusicTherapy that I wanted to give you a holler and tell you about it!
All the Best,
Davida Price, MS, IMF, MT-BC
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Preview of Upcoming Events and Services!
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Workshops in the Park (Career Builder; YogaDrum!), click on the link for official flier!
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Psychotherapy Services at Schneider Family Services
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Rock Therapy Services
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Teen Groups
Upcoming Workshops in the Park!
Sunday, November 7, 2010: Career Building Workshop and Networking Event! Visualize Your Career Destination and Create Momentum to Get There! Join Kayla Winiarz Karesh, MAT, MA and Davida Price, MS, MT-BC for an afternoon of Art Directed at moving your career in the right direction, Drumming to get your momentum going, and Networking to make the right Connections!
Sunday, December 5, 2010: Yoga Drum. Come participate in drumming and gentle stretching and relaxation, while overlooking a beautiful coastal scene in San Diego. Music Therapists, Davida Price and Darci Fontenot, and Certified Yoga Instructor, Anna-Maja Dahlgren, will come together to bring you this event. This will be for the beginning to advanced practitioner of yoga and drumming and will focus on well being and joy. Bring your friends for this Sunday morning treat!
Bring Music to your next Event or Contact me if you're interested in Collaborating!
Psychotherapy and Teen Therapy Groups:
Did you know that Davida is now offering psychotherapy in private practice at Schneider Family Services in Mission Valley??? Yep, here is the info:
Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychotherapy at Schneider Family Services. Davida provides services on a sliding scale, accepting cash, check, or credit card. Davida specializes in depression, anxiety, anger management, and family conflict.
Rock ‘n Roll Therapy. Davida was recently featured in the San Diego Reader, talking about Rock ‘n Roll Therapy, if you missed it, read it here! These therapy sessions integrate therapy with learning to play music to give you or your child support and practical skills in coping that you will be used throughout one’s entire life. These sessions are an hour and a half, half of the time is spent talking, half the time is spent learning and playing a musical instrument. Call or email for more information, individual or group sessions available!
Upcoming Adolescent Therapy Groups
Teen MAD (Manage Anger Daily) Classes, Monday nights from 6-7:30, Starting November 1, 2010 and going until December 13, 2007. These classes are designed to provide teens skills in anger management and positive coping techniques. Located at Schneider Family Services in Mission Valley. Call or email for more information! Click here to get the flier!
Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Support Group,Thursday nights from 6-7:30. Located at Schneider Family Services in Mission Valley. Call or email to add your teen to this supportive group! Click here to get the flier!
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Learn more about Music in Psychotherapy on the BMT Blog!
(Below are a few exerpts, click on the headings to go to the full post.)
Music Therapy Fact Sheet:
Fact #1: Music has been found to activate the release of mood stabilizing neurotransmittersin the brain, and can therefore lead to mood improvement, relaxation, release of anger, and create a sense of well being (Levitin, 2006).
More facts available on the Fact Sheet!
When Playing Musical Instruments
is a Scary Thing to Do. . .
In my work, I run into lots of different kinds of people and I try to encourage them to engage in music. This is really hard. Why? Because most of us, even musical and artistic people, think something along the lines of this: “Why would any level-headed, non-musician, non-hippie, middle-of-the-road adult come to a drum or music circle or engage in any kind of group music making?”
In fact, all of these things go through most people’s heads when faced with the prospect of playing music in a group (such as a drum circle):
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I’m going to embarrass myself.
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Playing music takes talent.
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I don’t have any rhythm.
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I’m not musical.
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I haven’t played an instrument since middle school.
Don’t worry though, you’re not alone! If you've ever been self-conscious about playing instruments in public, this article will explore your thoughts and liberate your inner rhythm!
Using Music to Cope with Combat PTSD
Over the past several years, I have gotten the privilege to work with Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans. Several of these young men have taken to learning to play instruments while in treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. With PTSD, it is my inclination that playing an instrument is so helpful because it stimulates bilateral cognitive processing, meaning it stimulates processing across both hemispheres of the brain. In some types of therapies for trauma, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the idea is to reprocess the trauma in a way that spreads the information across both hemispheres of the brain, breaking it up in a way so that it is not “stuck” in one area, causing the person to stay in a traumatized state. Alright, so the idea is to move information around the brain. What else triggers multiple parts of the brain and requires movement across the two hemispheres? Playing music. So in learning and playing an instrument, a veteran is practicing using all parts of his brain, which is important when you realize that he is dealing with trauma and simultaneously in treatment to reprocess traumatizing experiences in a way that will allow him to think about those experiences without reliving them. So when a veteran learns to play an instrument, he is, one, teaching himself to use his entire brain to process information, and two, he is learning and integrating a “feel good” skill, which would help him to avoid self-medicating with drugs or alcohol.
**Read more for tips for veterans wanting to play instruments. ..
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