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This week we talk to Dean Quick about the healing power of music
Dean Quick, MT-BC is the Program Director and Board Certified Music Therapist for TranscendED, a treatment center for eating disorders. He also provides broader music therapy through his personal practice. He is also a member of the Music Therapy Association of North Carolina.
In This Interview, Dean Quick and I Discuss…
- His work as a music therapist for people with mental illness
- How he works with clients who have no musical ability or skill
- That live music is most effective as well as the client’s preferred music in music therapy
- That music bypasses the cognitive processes of trauma and allows a person to reach a place within themselves that might otherwise be difficult to access
- How Gabby Giffords has used music to retrain her language
- That music can ignite the brain unlike anything else
- Where someone would go to explore music therapy as a patient
- That music can be used as therapy for children with developmental disabilities
- How music can be used by anyone as therapy on their own as therapy with some simple approaches
- Being mindful of the power of music in your own daily life
- Honoring the feeling in the moment with music
- Asking yourself “how am I honoring my feeling in this present moment”
- How we can engage with music in a mindful way to increase the power it has in our lives
- Using music to pace your practice of progressive muscle relaxation
- Why it’s better to choose our own music rather than buying music playlists that are “for relaxation”
