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ITA Staff Member to Pave Way for New Music Therapists

June 27, 2017 by ITA Staff

ITA Says Farewell to Rebecca West as She Moves to Minneapolis, Minnesota Not all music therapists are created equal. Some come to ITA because they want to learn more about creative arts therapies through their work.  Others come because they admire the variety of clientele we serve and are passionate about helping as many people […]

Filed Under: ITA Announcements Tagged With: creative arts therapies, farewell, ITA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, music, music therapists, music therapy, rebecca west, staff, University of Minnesota

Are there changes being made in Creative Arts Therapy Training?

May 10, 2017 by ITA Staff

ITA Hosts a Professors’ Forum Panel at the 2nd Annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference to Discuss Recent Developments and Issues in Training and Education In the last several years there has been much fodder regarding the ever-changing climate of the workplace and professional environments as result of the new generation’s job preparation and expectations. […]

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ITA on the Road: Music Therapists Head to North to Milwaukee for Regional Conference

March 29, 2017 by ITA Staff

The Great Lakes Music Therapy Conference Puts Focus on Health and Wellness with Help of ITA Team The Great Lakes Regional (GLR) Music Therapy conference was held in Milwaukee March 16-18, and ITA was represented by four of our own! Executive Director Jenni Rook, Community Programs Manager Jeffrey Wolfe, School Programs Manager Rebecca West, and […]

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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 they are multi-tasking?  Music is now also very accessible—from i-Tunes to Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube, anyone can access music with a few clicks of a […]

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

Rebecca West Presents at RIC Stroke Course

September 6, 2016 by ITAChicago

A look at the use of music in stroke recovery On July 22nd and 23rd, ITA’s School Programs Manager/Music Therapy Internship Director, Rebecca West, was a guest lecturer at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s (RIC) Stroke Course. The RIC Academy holds this annual interdisciplinary conference to provide physical, occupational, and speech therapists with the most […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anna Palumbo, creative arts therapy, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, music therapy, New York University School of Medicine, Preeti Raghavan, rebecca west, Rehabilitation Institute Chicago, research, RIC, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, stroke, stroke recovery, stroke survivors

ITA’s 2016 Webinar Series!

July 12, 2016 by ITAChicago

ITA's 2016 Webinar Series

ITA Hosting 4 Creative Arts Therapy Webinars This summer and fall, ITA therapists will be presenting a series of webinars! The presentations are geared toward  creative arts therapists and mental health professionals who want to incorporate elements of art, music, drama, or dance/movement therapy into their clinical practice. Each webinar focuses on a specific modality […]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: art, art therapy, clinical practitioners, creative arts therapies, creative arts therapy, dance movement therapy, drama therapy, Jessica Sittig, keith whipple, Marni Rosen, music therapy, rebecca west, webinars

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 Anne and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, and Rebecca West, ITA’s School Programs Manager and Music Therapy Internship Director, about how music therapy can be […]

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

Make the Most of Your Apps at Home

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By Rebecca West, MM, MT-BC With over 900,000 Apple apps, 1 million Android apps, and over 50,000 Window apps, responses like “there’s an app for that” can seem a little overwhelming. As a music therapist, I admit I had my doubts when apps began to rise in popularity and volume, wondering what place they […]

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