I am excited to share this conversation with Board Certified Music Therapist, Dan Walsh. He shared how he became inspired to shift into the world of music therapy after attending a session at the Expressive Therapies Summit. 

Dan is a Board-Certified Music Therapist/Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Dan currently works with adults and adolescents in inpatient behavioral health units as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn NY. .During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC, he also provided music interventions to frontline workers. Dan has worked at several community centers in the NYC area providing music therapy groups supporting self-expression and socialization. He has also worked with incarcerated youth residing in a limited secure placement facility. Dan completed his training at Molloy College and considers his journey of becoming a music therapist a part his evolution as a professional musician. As a Music therapist, he is able to implement his experience as a performer, producer, and educator in order to meet the diverse needs of his clients.

In this episode, Dan shares about how attending the Expressive Therapies Summit changed his career. Dan comes to the field of music therapy as a talented and well versed musician and music educator. We spent some time talking about how he has been using drum circles to aide front-line workers during the pandemic and how other clinicians can integrate drumming into their work. He talked about why percussive instruments can be a gateway into playing music for those who don't feel that they possess musical ability.   

RESOURCES:

• All In Time Music Therapy - www.allintimemusictherapy.com 
• Dan Walsh - AllinTimeMusicTherapy@gmail.com
• Expressive Therapies Summit NY, 2020 
• Facilitating Drum Circles for Counseling, Psychotherapy & the Community
• Rhythmic Transformation Through Drumming, Sound & Movement 

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