Free Services
for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury Survivors
We are providing expressive arts therapies to survivors of TBI and SCI to decrease depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation.
Through these grant funded services, we will provide:
Workshops
Individualized workshops for your organization are designed to provide information about our Expressive Arts Therapy Services. This will be experiential in nature and data will be taken from participants in order to form specialized groups based on participant feedback.
Individual Sessions
Expressive arts therapy individual sessions will focus on an individualized treatment plan with the primary goal of decreasing depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. These sessions will also address lingering symptoms of TBI/SCI including loss of motor coordination, speech and memory.
Group Sessions
Expressive arts therapy group sessions will focus on decreasing depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation through expressive arts therapies in a supportive group environment. This includes specialized groups for your organization based on feedback from participants and goal areas identified by your team. These groups can be facilitated in our office in North Chesterfield or in your facility. Frequency and type of group will be discussed during our initial contact.
Expressive Arts Therapy encompasses a range of creative therapy services that can include Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Dance/Movement Therapy, and more. At this time, we are able to schedule for Music Therapy services only. In addition to focusing on mental health needs, our music therapists have been trained in Neurologic Music Therapy to address functional skills, as described below.
Neurologic Music Therapy® is a standardized system of clinical techniques which uses the functional perception of all properties of music to train and retrain brain and behavior function. It uses music to initiate brain functioning that may have been lost due to various circumstances. This system of therapy is beneficial for survivors of TBI and SCI due to its standardized music techniques. With these techniques, the goal is to create functional skills that can be transferred outside of the music therapy session. NMT has been shown to improve the following:
Gait
Speech
Memory
Daily Living Skills
Motor Functioning
Mood Regulation
Services are funded by RFA# 28493-02 from the Commonwealth Neurotrauma Initiative (CNI) Trust Fund and managed by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS). The contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CNI Trust Fund or DARS.