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Welcome
2024-2025 Season
The Massachusetts Music Therapy Alliance (MMTA) is pleased to announce our upcoming 2024-2025 Mini-Conference Series:
Interdisciplinary Ideas for Interventions and Techniques in Music Therapy
DATES: October 19th, December 7th, February 8th
We hope you will join us for a three-part series exploring a wide variety of interdisciplinary applications to enhance and freshen up your music therapy practices! Over the course of this season, we will learn ways to regulate ourselves and our clients, receive a plethora of intermodal expressive arts interventions, and discuss clinical techniques from the perspectives of a handful of different counseling modalities, all while connecting in community and through music. Stay tuned for more info!
We are glad to announce that all three meetings will take place IN PERSON at our usual meeting space at
The Congregational Church of Weston. There will be an option to join a virtual livestream via Zoom as well.
Mini-Conference #1: Community Meeting
We will begin this season's exploration with sharing and learning ways to regulate both ourselves and our clients
through rich discussion and a guest presentation by Miles Cummings, MS, OTR/L
DATE: Saturday, October 19, 2024
TIME: 9:30 welcome, 10am-12:30pm meeting
LOCATION: The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston, MA
LIVESTREAM: https://zoom.us/j/95677939609
MODERATOR: Kim Johnson, LMHC, MT-BC
Mini-Conference #2: "Exploring the Roots & Rhythm of the Heart: HEARTful healing through the arts "
with Dr. Krystal Demaine, Ph.D., MT-BC, REAT, RYT, CTRS-C
This integrative arts workshop invites tuning into the pulse of the heart, our internal music, from
a somatosensory and integrative arts approach including, breathwork, gentle movement, music
making, creative visual art, and reflective writing all while considering how music in the heart
can influence one’s personal story, identity, health, and connection to self.
Dr. Krystal Demaine is a professor of expressive therapies at Endicott College School of Visual and Performing Arts
in Beverly, MA. She is a board‐certified music therapist, registered expressive arts therapist,
certified trauma and resilience specialist, certified in Trauma Sensitive HeartMath, and a registered yoga teacher.
In her more than 20 years as an expressive arts clinician, writing has been used for sense‐making through
song, story, poetry, and creative reflection. She is the author of The Roots and Rhythm of the Heart (2022),
and Expressive Therapeutic Writing (Demaine & Einstein, 2024, Routledge).
DATE: Saturday, December 7, 2024
TIME: 9:30a welcome, 10-12:30pm meeting
LOCATION: The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston, MA
LIVESTREAM: https://zoom.us/j/99059814633
MODERATOR: Andrew Rohwer, LMHC, MT-BC
Mini-Conference #3: Panel on Integrating Clinical Techniques from a Variety of Counseling Modalities
with Robin Beck-Miller, LMHC, former MT-BC,
Lou Lim, LMHC, REAT, &
Katie McGrail, LMHC, BC-DMT
We will conclude our season with an invigorating and informative panel discussion on ways to integrate various counseling modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Strengths-Based Therapy, and Attachment Theory, through a practical and expressive arts oriented lens. Our panelists range in experience in different settings and treating different populations, diagnoses, age ranges, levels of ability, etc, allowing for there to be nuggets of wisdom available for any and all attendees. To say the least, we're EXCITED!
Robin Beck-Miller, LMHC, former MT-BC earned her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Music Therapy from Lesley University. She has brought her collaborative therapeutic approach to families, mental health communities, psychiatric hospitals, schools, and residential facilities to foster the kinds of inner resources that help adults, children and adolescents thrive. Robin has expertise working with those who struggle with depression, anxiety, LGBTQ+ and transgender issues, addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, bi-polar disorder, PTSD, ADHD and more. Her sense of humor, openness and fundamental respect for individual challenges informs a multi-modal approach. Robin applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Expressive Therapies, Mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems techniques to help her clients discover self-compassion and change extreme beliefs and behaviors. Clinical interests include women during pregnancy and the postpartum period, parents and parenting, elder caregiving, grief and loss and the unique challenges faced by creative people. As a musician trained in expressive therapies, Robin brings nuanced creativity, partnership, and empathy to each therapy session. Robin is also a MaMCHA Certified Clinical Supervisor providing guidance to her clinical supervises. Currently, Robin is an outpatient mental health therapist and clinical supervisor at Looking Glass Counseling on the telehealth team.
Lou Lim, LMHC, REAT has a master's degree in Expressive Therapy and Mental Health Counseling from Lesley University. He is also a member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and on the committee for REAT credentialing. He has over 13 years of experience in counseling and expressive therapy working with children, adolescents, teenagers, adults, and retirees. Lou has experience working with individuals who experience depression, anxiety, OCD traits, trauma, substance abuse and addiction, borderline personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, individuals on the autism spectrum and other mental health experiences. He has worked in community mental health settings doing case management, rehabilitative services, psychiatric day treatment, and group therapy. Lou's passion lies in working with people with LGBTQ+ experiences, those with immigrant experiences, and those with religious/spiritual backgrounds wanting support on how their beliefs can be reconciled with mental health. Lou utilizes a client-centered approach that incorporates elements of narrative therapy and expressive therapy (e.g., art, music, theatre, creative writing, dance/movement, meditation, etc.). He has also been integrating the therapeutic use of table top role playing games (TTRPGs) into his work, specifically Dungeons and Dragons. Lou believes in creating a collaborative therapeutic relationship, building on the natural strengths and gifts of his clients. Currently, Lou is an outpatient mental health therapist, expressive therapies director, and clinical supervisor at Looking Glass Counseling in the Somerville office.
Katie McGrail, LMHC, BC-DMT is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist, and a 200-certified yoga instructor. Katie's experience includes working with children and families, including those with complex medical challenges and living with a variety of disabilities, in pediatric palliative care, at end of life, and in bereavement. She also has experience teaching dance and yoga to children and adults and has been collaborating/performing as a dancer and performance artist in the Boston area for more than a decade. Katie’s therapeutic work utilizes a dance movement therapy lens and is primarily grounded in attachment theory, a strengths-based perspective, and a client-centered approach with a developmental lens. Katie is currently HEARTplay Services Coordinator at Good Shepherd Community Care and Assistant Director of Camp Erin Boston. She also supervises graduate students in clinical mental health counseling and dance movement therapy and serves as Vice President of the New England chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association.
DATE: Saturday, February 8, 2025
TIME: 9:30a welcome, 10-12:30pm meeting
LOCATION: The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston, MA
LIVESTREAM: https://zoom.us/j/99668883195
MODERATOR: Bryanna Tobin, MHA, MT-BC