Services
MUSIC THERAPY
Music Therapy is 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.
Music therapy interventions can be designed to:
Music Therapy is 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.
Music therapy interventions can be designed to:
- Promote Wellness
- Manage Stress
- Alleviate Pain
- Express Feelings
- Enhance Memory
- Improve Communication
- Promote Physical Rehabilitation
THE BONNY METHOD OF GUIDED IMAGERY AND MUSIC (GIM)
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a music-assisted transformational therapy that offers persons the opportunity to integrate mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of themselves. This work is characterized by the use of specially sequenced western classical music designed to stimulate and sustain a dynamic unfolding of imagery experiences. Sessions in this one-to-one modality are conducted by facilitators who are formally trained in The Bonny Method of GIM.
In an extended session of up to two hours, we will discuss your current life situation, set goals for your work together, and establish a focus for the session. After following a guided relaxation, you then turn your attention to listening to the selected music, allowing it to become a vehicle for exploring deeper states of consciousness. You verbalize to the facilitator the images, feelings, sensations, memories, and other awareness evoked by the music. The imaginal realm provides a rich milieu for personal insight. As your facilitator, I'll interact verbally with you to help you develop and expand your imagery experiences. At the close of the music, I'll assist your return from the deepened state and reinforce the insights you have gleaned from the exploration.
Your music and imagery experiences are reflections of you and are unique to your personal relationships, feelings, and personality. You may have glimpses of transpersonal inspiration which both challenge and nurture your sense of who you are and who you can become. Your creativity may be awakened. You may gain new perspectives on your life issues and may feel empowered to work with them with renewed energy.
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a music-assisted transformational therapy that offers persons the opportunity to integrate mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of themselves. This work is characterized by the use of specially sequenced western classical music designed to stimulate and sustain a dynamic unfolding of imagery experiences. Sessions in this one-to-one modality are conducted by facilitators who are formally trained in The Bonny Method of GIM.
In an extended session of up to two hours, we will discuss your current life situation, set goals for your work together, and establish a focus for the session. After following a guided relaxation, you then turn your attention to listening to the selected music, allowing it to become a vehicle for exploring deeper states of consciousness. You verbalize to the facilitator the images, feelings, sensations, memories, and other awareness evoked by the music. The imaginal realm provides a rich milieu for personal insight. As your facilitator, I'll interact verbally with you to help you develop and expand your imagery experiences. At the close of the music, I'll assist your return from the deepened state and reinforce the insights you have gleaned from the exploration.
Your music and imagery experiences are reflections of you and are unique to your personal relationships, feelings, and personality. You may have glimpses of transpersonal inspiration which both challenge and nurture your sense of who you are and who you can become. Your creativity may be awakened. You may gain new perspectives on your life issues and may feel empowered to work with them with renewed energy.
MUSIC IMAGERY
A Music Imagery session is an abbreviated form of Guided Imagery and Music and is 60 to 75 minutes in length. The focus of the session is often centered on a specific question or issue that an individual has been exploring in their life.
We get comfortable and talk briefly about what concerns and issues are present in your life. The session then moves into a time for guided relaxation and a brief imagery exercise with relaxing music playing in the background. The session continues into time for drawing or writing. We end the session by sharing together elements of your experience, the significance of images that have arisen, and how they relate to your present concerns and issues.
A Music Imagery session is an abbreviated form of Guided Imagery and Music and is 60 to 75 minutes in length. The focus of the session is often centered on a specific question or issue that an individual has been exploring in their life.
We get comfortable and talk briefly about what concerns and issues are present in your life. The session then moves into a time for guided relaxation and a brief imagery exercise with relaxing music playing in the background. The session continues into time for drawing or writing. We end the session by sharing together elements of your experience, the significance of images that have arisen, and how they relate to your present concerns and issues.
"Deb is an extraordinary facilitator of the conscious and the unconscious. She is kind, smart, playful and non-judgmental. Her personal journey feeds her work with such amazing wisdom." – M.T.