Our Services
Resonate Music Therapy offers music services to children and adults in Colorado Springs. We offer music therapy sessions and music lessons for individuals and groups. Music therapy can help clients achieve a wide range of emotional, communication, and social goals. Our music lessons provide a supportive environment for learning a new instrument.
The Resonate team is excited to meet you! We’ve been part of the Colorado Springs community for over five years and we’re proud to call Colorado Springs our home. See more of what we do by clicking the links below or watching our video.
Music Therapy
What is Music Therapy?
Before starting services, many clients will ask us, “What exactly is music therapy?” Is music therapy similar to when you listen to classical music to relax after a busy day? Is it like traditional talk therapy but with guitars? Not exactly.
Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional.
In other words, music therapy is a researched-backed approach that uses music to benefit the lives of participants. At Resonate Music Therapy, our therapists use music to help clients achieve non-musical goals. These non-musical goals could be sensory, motor, emotional, physical, cognitive and/or communicative.
For example, a non-speaking client could use music to discover new ways to communicate with others. Or an adolescent client could use music to express and process complicated emotions. In all cases, a therapist will work one-on-one with the client to establish clear goals for sessions.
To summarize, music therapists use music to achieve non-musical goals. These non-musical goals could be sensory, motor, emotional, physical, cognitive and/or communicative.
Finally, music therapy can benefit a wide range of people, including but not limited to: individuals on the Autism spectrum, with Down Syndrome, sensory processing disorders, people experiencing grief and bereavement, Traumatic Brain Injury, CVA (stroke), and genetic or physical disorders. An assessment session is used to develop a treatment plan, with specified goals and objectives. The developed music therapy treatment plan can support other therapies the child or individual is receiving.
Check out our video here for more examples of what music therapy can look like!
What Are Your Credentials?
All therapists at Resonate Music Therapy have completed full music therapy programs from accredited schools. Specifically, a professional music therapist must hold a bachelor's degree or higher in music therapy from one of 70 university programs approved by the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA).
A music therapist must also complete a 1200-hour internship and pass the board certification test for music therapists. The internship provides practical clinical experience while the exam tests their theoretical knowledge of current music therapy practices and approaches. After becoming credentialed, a music therapist must continue education throughout their practicing years.
On top of certifications, our Music Therapists are able to provide a wide variety of music lessons in Colorado Springs for various disciplines including guitar, piano, percussion, and voice.
How can I pay?
There are many ways you or your family can receive services. Resonate is approved to provide services in Colorado Springs under certain state Medicaid Waivers. Unfortunately, core or federal Medicaid does not cover music therapy. If you are on the CES, SLS, CHRP, and CLLI Medicaid waivers, you have access to music therapy services!
Other ways to pay for therapy services include:
Victim’s Comp through the 4th District Attorney’s Office
HSA or flex accounts
Insurances (must cover an out of network, in office professional visit. Some insurances unfortunately specifically do not cover MT).
Private Pay and sliding scale options
Some agencies for individuals in a community placement.
Standard Music Lessons
Looking for music lessons in Colorado Springs? Our professionally trained staff will provide you with the skills and techniques to learn your instrument of choice! Here at Resonate, we teach guitar, piano, ukulele, violin, and voice.
Our music lessons are perfect for any age and any skill level. The teachers at our practice are patient and encouraging, which can help new musicians learn an instrument with confidence. But each teacher also holds a music degree from an accredited college. If you do have experience playing an instrument, our music teachers can provide advanced instruction as well.
Resonate also offers Colorado Springs music classes where students can learn alongside peers. There are music classes for everyone! Try out a ukulele group, parent+me infant and toddler class, a music enrichment time for 3 to 5-year-olds, a music enrichment class for older children, and songwriting/music theory groups for middle and high schoolers. Contact us!
Adaptive Music Lessons
At Resonate Music Therapy, we support music for all people. This includes people with disabilities. In adaptive lessons, the teacher finds creative ways to help the student learn an instrument. The teacher may introduce new supports that equip the student to be successful in playing, and though not exactly music therapy, adaptive lessons would be provided by a board-certified music therapist (MT-BC).
Who might benefit from adaptive lessons? We’ve seen adaptive lessons work for individuals who might need extra support in attention maintenance, self-regulation, frustration levels, fine motor skills, reading comprehension skills, etc. Resonate Music Therapy is a safe place for all people to benefit from music.
Not sure what you want to sign up for? Confused about what service will be the best fit for you? Answer these questions and we would be happy to help!