Lunch & Learn: Is Telehealth Effective?

We have been providing Telehealth Music Therapy Services for ONE YEAR NOW!

We have learned so much, and want to share our knowledge of the Efficacy of Telehealth with our facility partners, and other healthcare and education professionals.

Join us online next Friday, March 26th, for our Lunch & Learn, “Is Telehealth Effective?” and find out how we are adapting our services to continue meeting the needs of our clients and making progress toward their therapeutic goals!

Bring your lunch & hop online to join us!

Registration is FREE and required – details below:

When: Friday, March 26th
Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm EST
Access the Call here: Zoom
Meeting ID: 924 0584 5164
Passcode: 511880

REGISTER HERE!

Mallory Even2021-03-18T19:46:40+00:00March 18th, 2021|Continuing Education, Mental Health, MT Advocacy, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, Teletherapy, We Can Help, Wellness|

Core Values

Hello! We want to make sure everyone who finds this space knows who we are … and in order to know who we truly are, you must know what we truly value.

Here are Metro Music Therapy’s 6 Core Values; we hope they give you insight as to who we are and why we exist.

We are passionate about helping others find health, happiness, and a renewed sense of purpose. We are here for you in whatever ways you may need us!

You may want to head here next:

Most Sincerely,

Mallory Even2021-03-08T15:34:16+00:00January 7th, 2021|Mental Health, MT Advocacy, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, Small Business, We Can Help, Wellness|

Tunes With a Twist

REGISTER HERE!

Mallory Even2021-05-18T13:44:41+00:00December 28th, 2020|Caregivers, Mental Health, music therapy and wellness, stress, We Can Help, Wellness|

Wellness Services

We all need ways to de-stress – especially in 2020.

Our team has you covered! We provide Wellness Music Therapy services in-person and online, and we are ready to support you and your staff.

RESULTS:

Lower stress levels
Team-building
Improved coping skills
Improved motivation

Reach out and let us know how we can support your team of essential workers!

Mallory Even2020-11-05T15:19:13+00:00November 5th, 2020|Bereavement, Grief & Loss, Medical, Mental Health, MT in Healthcare, music therapy and wellness, Wellness|

Military Suicide Up 20%

Six-months into this “new norm,” and everything still feels very strange and heavy.

On the way to my office this morning, I heard these statistics on the radio, and I had to take a minute to wrap my head around these numbers that were screaming out to me over the car stereo:

Military suicides have increased by as much as 20% this year compared to the same period in 2019 …

And senior Army leaders — who say they’ve seen about a 30% jump in active duty suicides so far this year — told The Associated Press that they are looking at shortening combat deployments … *

Last year, the suicide rates, 20% lower than now, were still too high and unacceptable. It is overwhelming to think of each and every one of the lives that have been tragically changed because of these statistics.

I do not have all of the answers, and these situations can be so complicated; but I do know that music therapy services can help our active-duty military members and veterans. Not only does our field have the research to show this, but we have firsthand anecdotal evidence that music therapy can improve overall well-being and the outlook for the sometimes long road ahead.

Our team provides in-person and telehealth music therapy services for Veterans and active duty military personnel, and we are also very proud to partner with Music Therapy of the Rockies, a non-profit very near and dear to us who provides Songwriting Retreats for Veterans with PTSD.

If you or a loved-one is struggling due to military-related trauma, please know that we can help — no matter where you are. Our team now provides telehealth services to clients all over the globe, and we would be honored to walk alongside you during this crucial time.

With you in the hard times and the good,

*Read the full article from WSB News & Talk here.

Mallory Even2020-10-02T19:43:07+00:00September 28th, 2020|Grief & Loss, Mental Health, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, stress, Teletherapy, Veterans, Wellness|

Be the One …

Our founder, Mallory, recently shared this story about her father:

“Music was the way in which my father experienced, interacted with, and related to the world around him. It was common practice for him to ask us to sit down and listen to a song with him; his timing was always terrible, actually, so if we ignored his request, which we often did, he’d just turn the song on so loudly that you had no choice but to hear it throughout the house.

One of the many, many things he taught me, and that I will always carry with me, is that if someone asks you to listen to a song because it’s meaningful to them, be the one who will.”

And this is our promise to you: we will listen to you, with you, and for you.

Mallory Even2020-09-11T20:38:53+00:00September 2nd, 2020|For the Music Therapist, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, MT Advocacy, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, We Can Help, Wellness|

A COVID-19 UPDATE

UPDATED 9/1/2020:

To our Dear Clients,

It has been 6 months since we have seen each of you in-person, and boy do we feel that! We miss you all tremendously, and cannot wait until we can be together in the same room for music therapy and music lessons.

This is my reason for writing to you today: we feel the tension of both wanting to open back up and resume as much normalcy as possible, while we also know that we do not know enough just yet to do this in a safe manner.

While to you and your family it may only be 30-45 minutes with one of our staff members once a week, which sounds like low exposure, our team collectively works with over 60 families and facilities, which impacts all of our chances of potential exposure dramatically. Simply stated: in order to continue keeping your families safe, we are not ready to resume in-person services just yet.

We are closely following the CDC and WHO guidelines, and we are also keeping a pulse on the happenings around the State of Georgia. Once we feel that we can safely re-open our Studio space and return to visiting our client’s homes and facilities, I promise that you will be the first to know!

In the meantime, we have been thrilled to continue music therapy services via teletherapy and we are so grateful that we have this option. If you have opted not to participate in teletherapy up to this point, but would like to go ahead and get started, please reach out!

Thank you for your patience over the last two months as we have navigated this journey together. We are grateful for each of you!

Sincerely,

Mallory Even, LPMT, MT-BC
Owner & Director of Metro Music Therapy

Mallory Even2020-09-14T13:31:05+00:00May 18th, 2020|Blog, Medical, Mental Health, MT Advocacy, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, news, Teletherapy, We Can Help|

We are here for you!

Social Distancing is not easy. We are here to help.

WE ARE PROVIDING THE FOLLOWING SERVICES ONLINE FOR CURRENT AND NEW CLIENTS:

Due to social distancing to help stop the spread of COVID-19, we are so grateful to be able to continue our music therapy services online for all of our current clients. Teletherapy services have allowed us to safely provide for our local clients, in addition to clients scattered through the U.S. and the globe!

We are also accepting new clients at this time. Please read more about the benefits of and requirements for teletherapy here.

Healthcare providers, front-line emergency responders, and employees of school systems and educational institutions are feeling a high level of stress during this quickly evolving and ever-changing global pandemic.

Our team provides online individual and group wellness services for organizations, groups, or even families who need to intentionally carve out time to pause, process, and reflect. Learn more about our Wellness services here.

We believe that when it can be, music therapy should be conducted in-person to be able to best meet the needs of each of our clients.

We also know that being face-to-face is not an option right now, and live teletherapy may not be accessible or even appropriate for all of our clients.

If you or your loved one would benefit from curated, individualized pre-recorded musical video content from one of our therapists, which could be accessed at a time that works best for you, we can do this for you.

Please reach out to find out how!

Facility on lockdown? Trying to find and create ways to bring music and joy into the lives of your clients and patients who can’t even leave their rooms?

We can help. Let’s schedule a time to talk about how to bring appropriate music in safe ways to your clients and patients. We have some great ideas and would love to share them with you! Here’s a list to get you started.

We want to help you during this time, to get through this time,
and to be there for you long after this is all said and done.
Please reach out; you’re not alone!

—

Your partner in Good Health,

Mallory Even2020-08-17T12:52:24+00:00April 1st, 2020|Mental Health, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, Teletherapy, We Can Help|

Music Therapy Advocacy!

Happy Music Therapy Advocacy Month!

As a music therapy intern who just completed my internship at Metro Music Therapy, I have had the opportunity to experience the multitude of ways that music therapy can positively transform patients’ lives. Academic classes in college certainly hammered in AMTA’s definition of music therapy such that I could recite it in my sleep: “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.” Practicum sites in college gave me glimpses of how that definition applied to direct patient care. However, completing internship and learning to implement such music interventions with a more diverse variety of populations than I could have ever imagined has given me new insight into the importance of music therapy advocacy.

Music therapy groups can create a safe space with a sense of belonging for youth in the foster care system who have rarely known what belonging felt like before. They can create a welcoming community for refugee children who are navigating an entirely new country. Music therapy can provide comfort and relief from agitation for hospice patients who are nearing the end of their lives. It can increase quality of life for residents in nursing homes, assisted living, and memory care units. Music therapy can provide a unique outlet for emotional expression and processing for veterans who are suffering from symptoms of PTSD. It can help mitigate symptoms of mental illness for individuals in a behavioral health facility. Music therapy can do all of this and so much more.

Atlanta Veteran Songwriting Retreat – November 2019

With increasing advocacy efforts for music therapy, music therapists can continue to work with the populations most commonly served, expand services for those populations less commonly served, and design new programs to reach populations that have not yet had the opportunity to reap the benefits of high-quality music therapy care. As I have seen during my time at Metro Music Therapy, with a positive attitude that anything is possible, music therapy can continue to transform clients’ and patients’ lives for the better.

– Written by Haley Smith

Mallory Even2020-01-30T03:09:20+00:00January 29th, 2020|Bereavement, For the Music Therapist, Grief & Loss, Hospice Music Therapy, Medical, Mental Health, MT Advocacy, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, Pediatric, Veterans, Wellness|

Mindful Moments

The path leading to the Women’s Center Labor and Delivery unit may not always lead to the ending that parents have in mind.

While experiencing some of their deepest sorrow, families at Northside Hospital are surrounded by love and support from the H.E.A.R.T.strings Perinatal Bereavement and Palliative Care team.

Our team was thrilled to partner with this amazing department to create a relaxation CD for families who have suffered an unimaginable loss.

The MMT team poured months of work into this labor of love, and this morning, Mallory was thrilled to hand-deliver 100 “Mindful Moments” relaxation CDs to the hospital!

These CDs will be given to families upon discharge from the hospital in order to bring comfort and to create a time for healing and relaxation to take place whenever needed.

A huge thanks to our Assistant Director, Sam Shanine, for composing, recording, and producing the musical tracks for this album, to the MMT team and the H.E.A.R.T.strings team for writing the scripts, and to Selena Fettig of Beanpress Cards for the cover and insert layout and artwork.

Days like these remind us to continue to be grateful to have meaningful connections with others – whether it’s with our colleagues in the caring professions or with families that we may never meet, but who have already touched our lives.

Mallory Even2017-02-16T23:08:47+00:00February 16th, 2017|Grief & Loss, Medical, MT in Healthcare, Music Therapy, music therapy and wellness, Pediatric, Wellness|