{"id":21,"date":"2016-01-17T07:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T07:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preludemusictherapy.com\/blogs\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2016-05-22T06:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T06:55:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.preludemusictherapy.com\/blogs\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathleen Coleman, MMT, MT-BC and Betsey King, PhD, MT-BC<\/strong> founded Prelude Music Therapy<\/strong> in 1995. \u00a0Prelude Music Therapy<\/a> publishes music and materials for working with people with special needs. \u00a0Kathleen and Betsey are both board-certified music therapists with over 30 years experience in the field. They are not native Texans, but spent most of their professional lives in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area of the Lone Star State…up until 2004, when Betsey left to pursue a doctorate in music therapy at the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n

After many years in which she started several of the music therapy programs which still exist in north Texas, Kathleen<\/strong> now has a private practice working with clients who have developmental disabilities. She also teaches piano and guitar, provides consulting services for school districts, agencies, and therapists nationwide, and is involved in dachshund rescue (with four dachshunds at home!).<\/p>\n

Betsey<\/strong> is associate professor of music therapy at Nazareth College<\/a> in Rochester, New York, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate students. She previously was an assistant professor and head of the Department of Music Therapy at Southern Methodist University<\/a> in Dallas. Prior to teaching, she spent eight years working in physical medicine rehabilitation and other medical areas, and eight years in public school music therapy and private practice with a variety of clients.<\/p>\n

Kathleen and Betsey have both published articles in Music Therapy Perspectives<\/em>, one of the two journals published by the American Music Therapy Association<\/strong><\/a> and have written chapters for the AMTA book\u00a0Models of Music Therapy in the Public Schools<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Betsey has recently completed a new book:\u00a0Music Heard So Deeply: A Music Therapy Memoir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathleen Coleman, MMT, MT-BC and Betsey King, PhD, MT-BC founded Prelude Music Therapy in 1995. \u00a0Prelude Music Therapy publishes music and materials for working with people with special needs. \u00a0Kathleen and Betsey are both board-certified music therapists with over 30 years experience in the field. They are not native Texans, but spent most of their … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P78syp-l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95,"url":"http:\/\/www.preludemusictherapy.com\/blogs\/frequently-asked-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"Frequently-Asked Questions","author":"preludemusictherapy","date":"May 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Won't it just be quicker if I e-mail you with my question? No. Kathleen and Betsey have both found that their schedules don't permit them to answer individual inquiries. Fortunately, 99% of the questions we've received in the past are answered on this page! Why are you blocking comments? 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Music therapists use their training as musicians, clinicians, and researchers to help people effect changes in cognitive, physical, communication, social, and emotional skills.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61,"url":"http:\/\/www.preludemusictherapy.com\/blogs\/what-to-expect-from-a-board-certified-music-therapist\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":2},"title":"What to Expect from a Board-Certified Music Therapist","author":"preludemusictherapy","date":"May 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0A music therapist will have current credentials, indicated by the letters MT-BC. \"BC\" stands for \"board certified\": a designation which indicates that the therapist has: \u00a0graduated from a university program approved by the American Music Therapy Association, Inc.\u00a0(AMTA). \u00a0These programs include extensive music training in multiple instruments and styles, academic\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"orange_bullet0","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.preludemusictherapy.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/orange_bullet0.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":112,"url":"http:\/\/www.preludemusictherapy.com\/blogs\/nope-thats-not-music-therapy\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":3},"title":"Nope — That’s NOT Music Therapy","author":"preludemusictherapy","date":"May 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you find us via Facebook or Twitter? \u00a0Are you following a link from an email or blog post? \u00a0Welcome! 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