Telehealth Providers
Brian Abrams, Ph.D, MT-BC, LCAT
https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=abramsb
Location: Montclair State University. 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043
Biography:
I am a music therapist with over 25 years of experience as a professional, and with over 20 years of maintaining a practice in music psychotherapy and professional supervision. I available to provide individual/group music psychotherapy and individual/group music therapy supervision (including on a remote basis). I am not a provider for in-network health insurance, but provide documentation to support applications for out-of-network reimbursement. I have served as Music Therapy faculty at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University since 2008.
Specialized Trainings/Certifications:
- Analytical Music Therapy
- Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music
- A set clinical location
- Telehealth
- Abused/Sexually Abused
- Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Eating Disordered
- Mental Health
- Music Therapy College Students
- Non-Disabled
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Substance Abuse
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Elise Carter, MT-BC
Phone: (973) 851-5435
Biography:
I am a certified music therapist who specializes in working with adults and children with developmental disabilities, neurodevelopmental challenges and physical disabilities. I also have experience working with clients in palliative/hospice care, eating disorders, and other mental health challenges.
Treatment setting:
- A set clinical location
- In-home services
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Bereavement/Grief
- Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Developmentally Disabled
- Eating Disordered
- Elderly Persons
- Emotionally Disturbed
- Head Injured
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Learning Disabled
- Mental Health
- Multiply Disabled
- Neurologically Impaired
- Non-disabled
- Parkinsons
- Physically Disabled
- Rett Syndrome
- Speech Impaired
- Stroke
- Terminally Ill
Primary age groups served:
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Megan Calabro, MT-BC, NICU-MT, CHC
Biography:
Greetings! I am a master’s level board-certified music therapist specializing in pediatrics, early childhood, and wellness. I have additional training in clinical EFT, DIRFloortime, and NICU Music Therapy, and am also a certified health coach.
Specialized trainings/certifications:
- DIRFloortime
- NICU-MT
- Clinical EFT
- Certified Health Coach
Treatment setting:
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Chronic Pain
- Medical Surgical
- Wellness
Primary age groups served:
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
Creative Flow Therapy Services, LLC
Amy Clarkson, MMT, LCAT, MT-BC, CP/PAT
Phone: (908) 655-0505
Location: 770 US 206, Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Biography:
Amy is a music therapist and psychodramatist with 25 years of experience. Amy believes creativity is a key human resource for growth and change. She provides a compassionate, therapeutic environment in which the creativity of each individual is given room and encouragement to flourish and flow freely. Within a supportive therapeutic relationship, children, teens, and adults are able to draw on their own creative potential in order to move in a desired direction of development or change. Needs commonly addressed include emotional well being, stress management, focus and joint attention, communication skills, relationship issues, social skills, coping with change and loss, working through trauma, recovering from addiction, and/or strengthening a positive sense of self. Amy provides supervision and training for music therapists, psychodramatists and all those in the helping professions who are seeking to incorporate creative approaches within their work.
Specialized Trainings/Certifications:
- Psychodrama Trainer, Educator, Practitioner
- A set clinical location
- In-home services
- Abused/Sexually Abused
- Autism Spectrum
- Bereavement/Grief
- Developmentally Disabled
- Early Childhood
- Mental Health
- Music Therapy College Students
- Non-disabled
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- School-Age Population
- Substance Abuse
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
John Foley, MT-BC
Phone: (973) 853-2398
Location: 18 Cudney Rd, Hewitt, NJ 07421
Biography:
25 years of experience woking with children and young adults with developmental disabilities in schools, clinics, hospitals and other facilities
Treatment setting:
- A set clinical location
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Behavioral Disorder
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Early Childhood
- Learning Disabled
- Multiply Disabled
- School Age Population
Primary age groups served:
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
Garden State Music Therapy Services, LLC
Madison Indyk, MT-BC
Instagram: @_gsmts_
Phone: (732) 379-0232
Biography:
Our mission is to provide high quality music therapy services to individuals of all ages with various needs throughout the central New Jersey area. We aim to help each individual reach their own greatest potential within a holistic client-centered approach.
Treatment setting:
- In-home services
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Autism Spectrum
- Behavioral Disorder
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Early Childhood
- Emotionally Disturbed
- Head Injured
- Hearing Impaired
- Learning Disabled
- Multiply Disabled
- Neurologically Impaired
- Physically Disabled
- Rett Syndrome
- School Age Population
- Speech Impaired
Primary age groups served:
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Inner Harmony
Julie Sherwood, MA, LCAT, CCTS, MT-BC
https://about.me/Inner_Harmony
Location: 10 Sloan St., Suite 6, South Orange, NJ 07079
Phone: (973) 996-8295
Biography:
No matter what challenges you may be facing today, or what trauma you may have experienced in the past, it is my deep and abiding belief that everyone can heal and move forward with a newfound sense of freedom and joy.
For many years I’ve been helping people overcome trauma, stress, and anxiety. I believe in a compassionate, holistic approach that is creative, uplifting, and empowering. I'll help you gently release that which no longer serves you and embrace the abundant health, happiness, and inner harmony you deserve!
Specialized Trainings/Certifications:
I am a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, Certified Master Accelerated Resolution Therapist, Board Certified Music Therapist, and EFT practitioner.
I also have a background in therapeutic bodywork, somatic therapies, and energy medicine. My holistic background informs my integrative approach to mental and emotional wellness and helps me personalize therapy to meet each individual's needs.
Treatment Setting:
- A set clinical location
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Abused/Sexually Abused
- Bereavement/Grief
- Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Mental Health
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Anxiety, Stress
Primary age groups served:
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Jennifer M. Knittel, MT-BC
Biography:
Jennifer Knittel provides group and individual music therapy services within her service specialties of dementia and hospice care.
Common goals reached through engaging in Music Therapy: Social and sensory stimulation, self expression, life review, family support, spiritual support, legacy creation, and increased comfort/quality of life.
Common approaches used by Jennifer encouraging client expression: Music listening, Music making- rhythm, singing, Movement to music, Guided reminiscence, Songwriting, Lyric analysis, Caring touch, and Vibrotactile stimulation
Jennifer Knittel's current contracts throughout Northern & Central New Jersey include providing music therapy through:
Music Therapy visits at home, nursing home, and assisted living facilities. Home visits and family sessions, ages 0-110.
Flexibility with group programming and individual visits to meet needs of residents as requested by Recreation/Activity/Memory Care departments
Providing quality care & meeting NJ State Survey expectations, especially for clients who are in advanced stages of dementia, in a coma state, are nonverbal, self-isolating residents, patients who are actively dying, residents with anxious behaviors, patients with developmental disabilities, non-English speaking individuals, and fragile family situations.
- Board Certified Music Therapist 2001- present
- Music Together certified teacher
- Child and Adolescent Grief & Loss Music Therapy Institute
- Music Therapy and Gerontology Graduate Study
- Human Services, Social Work concentration
- In-home services
- Telehealth services
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Bereavement/Grief
- Comatose
- Elderly Persons
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Terminally Ill
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
The Music Moment, LLC
Ellen de Havilland, MT-BC
https://www.themusicmoment.com/
Phone: (908) 312-0227
Location: 17 Van Dyke Pl., Summit NJ 07901
Biography:
Owner and Director of The Music Moment, LLC, based in Summit, NJ. Bringing the joy of music into every home. Providing virtual and in-person music therapy and adaptive music lessons for all ages.
Specialized trainings/certifications:
- Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT)
- HealthRhythms Facilitator
- A set clinical location
- In-home services
- Telehealth services
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Autism Spectrum
- Behavioral Disorder
- Bereavement/Grief
- Chronic Pain
- Comatose
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Dual Diagnosed (Mentally Ill/Chemically Addicted)
- Early Childhood
- Eating Disordered
- Elderly Persons
- Emotionally Disturbed
- Head Injured
- Hearing Impaired
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Labor/Delivery
- Learning Disabled
- Mental Health
- Multiply Disabled
- Neurologically Impaired
- Non-disabled
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Rett Syndrome
- School Age Population
- Speech Impaired
- Stroke
- Terminally Ill
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Music Therapy Services of Central NJ
Carol Ann Blank, MT-BC
Biography:
I work with young children through teenagers with special needs in the Mercer/Burlington/Monmouth area.
- In-home services
- Telehealth services
- Autism Spectrum
- Developmentally Disabled
- Early Childhood
- Head Injury
- School-Age Population
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
Additional Telehealth Information:
- Individual and group offerings
Muzique, LLC
Karly Muzalier, MT-BC
*Approved DDD provider for adults with ID/DD*
Locations: 425 N. 3rd St., Hammonton, NJ 08037
22 E. Gloucester Pike, Barrington, NJ, 08007
Phone: (609) 670-8619
Biography:
Muzique, LLC offers creative arts experiences to all ages and abilities, including music, art, dance and drama in the forms of therapy and lessons! We provide services in one of 3 locations: Online ANYWHERE, in our Barrington NJ Studio, or in our Hammonton NJ Studio. We pair you with a board- certified creative arts therapist or a professional music instructor that suits your specific needs best! Our #1 focus is always improving quality of life, or in other words, bringing some fun and joy into the lives of those we serve! Not only do we offer top-of-the-line creative arts experiences for our clients, residents and students, but we tailor all of our experiences to fit each individual’s needs and make it fun! We also pride ourselves on providing the opportunity for therapists and instructors to increase their professional experience in working with the clients and students that we serve. Our goal is to provide opportunities for clients, students, therapists and instructors to grow and develop through and alongside Muzique, all while having an amazing time!
Specialized trainings/certifications:
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Specialize in working with Adults and children with DD/ID and Mental Health
- A set clinical location
- Telehealth services
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Autism Spectrum
- Behavioral Disorder
- Bereavement/Grief
- Chronic Pain
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Early Childhood
- Elderly Persons
- Emotionally Disturbed
- Head Injured
- Hearing Impaired
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Learning Disabled
- Mental Health
- Multiply Disabled
- Music Therapy College Students
- Neurologically Impaired
- Non-disabled
- Parkinsons
- Physically Disabled
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Rett Syndrome
- School-Age Population
- Speech Impaired
- Stroke
- Terminally Ill
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Diana Reed, MT-BC
Biography:
I am an experienced Music Therapist and Music educator, currently working with learning disabled school students and alumni. I teach music lessons and work on non-music IEP goal domains through music engagement and building a strong therapeutic relationship.
Specialized Trainings/Certifications:
- MA in Special Education
- TOSD Certificate
- In-home services
- Telehealth
- Autism Spectrum
- Developmentally Disabled
- Learning Disabled
- Multiply Disabled
- Physically Disabled
- Rett Syndrome
- School-Age Population
- Speech Impaired
- Stroke
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
Edy Toussaint, MA, MT-BC
Phone: (201) 600-0625
Biography:
Using music therapy interventions based in a humanistic approach, my aim is to help clients improve their overall quality of life, functionality, social interactions, mood, and self-esteem.
Treatment setting:
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Autism Spectrum
- Developmentally Disabled
- Elderly Persons
- Learning Disabled
- Multiply Disabled
- Neurologically Impaired
- Parkinsons
- Physically Disabled
- Speech Impaired
- Stroke
Primary age groups served:
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
Unity Music Therapy, LLC
Julianna Altonjy, MT-BC
Instagram: @unitymusictherapy
Biography:
Julianna provides individual and group music therapy services and music experiences to all ages and abilities! She also offers traditional and adapted music lessons. Through live music, each session is tailored to the group or individual and Julianna can be flexible to meet in-the-moment needs. Sessions may include a variety of musical experiences such as improvisation, songwriting, instrument exploration, movement to music, and more to support the individual, group, or community.
- A set clinical location
- In-home services
- Telehealth services
- Alzheimer's /Dementia
- Autism Spectrum
- Behavioral Disorder
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Early Childhood
- Older Adults
- Emotionally Disturbed
- Hearing Impaired
- Learning Disabled
- Multiply Disabled
- Neurologically Impaired
- Non-disabled
- Physically Disabled
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Rett Syndrome
- School-Age Population
- Speech Impaired
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)
VereenMusic, LLC
Ian C. Vereen, NMT, MT-BC
Biography:
VereenMusic is a provider of Neurologic Music therapy. We provide group, individual, and contracted services to local facilities and schools within out service specialties of early intervention and early childhood development, autism spectrum disorder, developmental disabilities, adolescent behavioral challenges and adult mental health, gender-affirming voice work, and LGBTQ* related issues. We are committed to providing the highest quality of therapeutic services in a supportive environment in order to promote healing, physical and emotional wellbeing, and create opportunities where clients can be successful.
Treatment setting:
- In-home services
- Telehealth services
Populations served:
- Autism Spectrum
- Behavioral Disorder
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Early Childhood
- Head Injured
- Learning Disabled
- Mental Health
- Multiply Disabled
- Neurologically Impaired
- Non-disabled
- Physically Disabled
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Rett Syndrome
- School Age Population
- Speech Impaired
- Stroke
Primary age groups served:
- Infants (0 to 3 years)
- Children (4 to 12 years)
- Adolescents/Young Adults (13 to 25 years)
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
Maxine Vogt, MT-BC
Biography:
I have been a music therapist for 14 years specializing in working with seniors and people of any age with disabilities. I love the power that music has in helping people to get better in touch with the strengths that they have and allow them to use it to express themselves. I am a trained therapist and use my skills in concert with music to bring out the best in my clients.
Treatment setting:
- In-home services
- Telehealth
Populations served:
- Alzheimer's/Dementia
- Autism Spectrum
- Behavioral Disorder
- Bereavement/Grief
- Developmentally Disabled
- Dual Diagnosed (IDD/Mentally Ill)
- Emotionally Disturbed
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Multiply Disabled
- Physically Disabled
- Terminally Ill
Primary age groups served:
- Adults (26 to 65 years)
- Older Adults (66+ years)