Private Sessions
A private music therapy session with us involves addressing individual goals using various tools. We help our clients grow and develop new skills based on their personalized treatment plan. Each therapist tailors their approach to the specific needs of each client to help them navigate life challenges.
Our clients are also offered opportunities, if they choose, to showcase and celebrate their progress through large community recitals held in the spring and fall. Our recitals focus on creating an outlet for self-expression, joy and connection to others in a safe space to allow our clients opportunities to push themselves further in their goals, provide an outlet for them to feel validated and supported by the audience and offer a chance for the audience to transform their perceptions of themselves and others.
Social Groups
A Place To Be offers several therapeutic social groups at our facility in Middleburg tailored to fit the needs of individual participants. We have offerings for middle school and high school age students and young adults. All social groups are led by our certified clinical team members. These groups are both therapeutic and tons of fun! Check out our spring 2020 line-up below.
Social Groups require an assessment before registration. To learn more: Email office@aplacetobeva.org or call 540-687-6740
Community Music Therapy Integration
Our Community Music Therapy Integration program brings adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities together with music therapists and volunteers for a therapeutic hour of art, music, dance and friendship. A Place To Be partners with community groups like MVLE and ECHO as part of this program. Our Community Music Therapy Integration aims to connect human beings through an artistic and social event, to experience others from a new perspective, and most importantly to have fun!
Interested in volunteering? Email office@aplacetobeva.org to learn more!
INOVA
A Place To Be is currently providing a full service music therapy program at Inova Loudoun Hospital. Our music therapists work bedside with patients and their caregivers in the ICU, oncology unit, progressive care unit, medical/surgical unit and pediatric in-patient and emergency units. Our program uses music and music based interventions to help improve physical symptoms as well as psycho-social issues that may arise as a result of being hospitalized. Our clinical interventions are provided by board certified medical music therapists and are based on scientific research and the use of evidence based practices. Music therapy in a medical setting involves treating the whole person - body, mind and spirit - working on the psychological difficulties of illness and the work involved during the healing process.
Assessment of each patient's unique mind-body connection - how the mind is affecting the body and how the body is affecting the mind
Support of coping mechanisms which have been shown to enhance the immune system
Treatment of the rhythms, resonances, tones, and timbres of the body to promote harmonic balance
Addressing physical, emotional, cognitive, developmental, social and spiritual needs of the person
Promoting self initiative, thereby enhancing one's sense of empowerment as a proactive force in his/her own healing
We work with people across the life span, from premature infants to people recovering from surgery to end-of-life care. Patients in the hospital may benefit from music therapy to alleviate pain, anxiety or depression, provide gentle stimulation for loss of consciousness and enhance coping, communication and quality of life.
In addition, our weekly COPD music therapy group uses music, wind instruments and singing, to support and enhance breathing. Our group also supports the social aspects of working through breathing issues associated with COPD in a supporting and fun music-making environment.
The Inova Stroke Survivor Choir Different Strokes for Different Folks : Disco Fever
A Place To Be presents "Disco Fever" with the Inova Stroke Survivor Choir, Different Strokes for Different Folks! This upbeat concert showcases the fun, the connection and the benefits of music therapy.