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Music Can Enhance the Therapeutic Process, but Not All Music Is Therapeutic: Understanding How and When to Use Music within a Session

September 19, 2016 by ITA Staff

It seems music is everywhere. Anytime I am on the EL, I feel at least half of the passengers I see around me have earbuds in—perhaps listening to music while […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: creative arts therapy, Institute for Therapy through the Arts, music, music therapy, professional development, rebecca west, webinar

Columbia College Chicago Presents Deaf Awareness Day

September 15, 2016 by ITA Staff

Part of International Deaf Awareness Week, Presented by the American Sign Language Department at Columbia College Chicago On Wednesday, September 28, from 10am-3pm, Columbia College Chicago’s Department of American Sign […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: american sign language, asl, columbia college chicago, deaf, deaf awareness day, deaf awareness week, deaf-blind, hard of hearing, interpreters, jim van manen, late deafened

Save the Drama, Hold the Drama, or better yet, Grow from Drama

August 18, 2016 by ITA Staff

Understanding and Applying Elements of Drama Therapy Appropriately Given that contemporary pop-culture often, unfortunately, depicts “the drama” as the experience of extremely unpleasant, out-of-control behavior best avoided (“Don’t make a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: clinical practitioners, creative arts therapy, drama therapy, keith whipple, webinar

Join the ITA Board of Directors

August 17, 2016 by ITA Staff

ITA is seeking new board members for the upcoming fiscal year. We are looking for a few talented and conscientious volunteer board members to lead and strengthen our programs. ITA […]

Filed Under: ITA Announcements Tagged With: board of directors, financial management, fundraising, ITA, jenni rook, marketing, strategic planning, volunteer

ITA Co-sponsors Conference with Health & Disabilities Advocates on Sept. 16, 2016!

August 9, 2016 by ITA Staff

Experiential Learning Conference Explore Creative Arts and Alternative Therapies for Working with Trauma When:  Friday, September 16th, 2016 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Institute for Therapy through the Arts 1702 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Acupuncture, Alternative Therapy, art therapy, CEUs, Chicago Botanical Gardens, conference, creative arts therapy, drama therapy, Experiential Learning, Health and Disabilities Advocates, Horticulture Therapy, Institute for Therapy through the Arts, keith whipple, Marni Rosen, Music Speaks, music therapy, Project Welcome Home Troops

My New Friend, Mr. Hobman: An Intern’s Experience Working with Anxiety

June 6, 2016 by ITA Staff

  Learn how ITA’s internship provided an opportunity for a young man to learn how to cope with symptoms related to his disability, including anxiety Hello, my name is Ben […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: anxiety, chronic depression, creative arts therapies, creative arts therapy, internship, ita interns, recovery, tourette's syndrome, workplace anxiety

ITA Attends the Great Lakes Region Music Therapy Conference

May 11, 2016 by ITA Staff

The Great Lakes Region (GLR) of the American Music Therapy Association annual conference took place April 14-16th in Indianapolis. ITA staff Jeffrey Wolfe and Jenni Rook were busy presenting and […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: american music therapy association, amta, client-centered, conference, glr, great lakes region, iamt, illinois association for music therapy, jeffrey wolfe, jenni rook, music therapy

Summer Camps 2016

May 6, 2016 by ITA Staff

Looking for a summer camp for your child(ren) to attend? After many inquiries from parents, we have compiled a list of programs in the surrounding area and provided a link […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: adhd, autism, behavioral issues, camps, children, kids, social issues, social language skills, special needs, speech, summer camps

WonderWhy with Emma Mac: Music Therapy

March 24, 2016 by ITA Staff

a young boy plays a small drum with mallets

In a three part series on the WonderWhy podcast called “How Music Can Heal Us,”Emma Mac from radio station 93XRT interviews two music therapists who work with children, Elizabeth Klinger of […]

Filed Under: ITA in the News Tagged With: children, elizabeth klinger, hospice care, lurie children's hospital, medical research, music therapy, neurological research, rebecca west

Harriet Wadeson featured in Chicago Tribune

January 22, 2016 by ITA Staff

We were delighted to award Harriet Wadeson with the first annual Marilyn Richman Legacy Award for excellence in the field of the Creative Arts Therapies last Spring at our 40th […]

Filed Under: ITA in the News Tagged With: creative arts therapies, creative arts therapy, harriet wadeson, ita is 40, marilyn richman, marilyn richman legacy award

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