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Torrey Gimpel, MA, MM, MT-BC provides music therapy sessions to individuals and groups across a variety of settings in Androscoggin/Kennebec counties.

Maine Music and Health provides direct music therapy services in medical settings for people with cancer, brain injury, developmental disabilities, and dementia; as well as trainings for healthcare professionals and teaching artists.

MM&H was founded in 2011 by Board-Certified Music Therapist Kate Beever, who trained at NYU in Beth Israel Medical Center and Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in music psychotherapy with additional training in Neurologic Music Therapy and Guided Imagery in Music.

MedRhythms is a neuro-rehab company that exists to restore the lives and quality of life of loved ones, which brain injury threatens to steal each year. We do this through world-class, life changing care for those afflicted by neurologic injury or disease, using the power of Neurologic Music Therapy. MedRhythms focuses on this intersection between music, neuroscience, and technology, providing interventions to achieve optimum outcomes in sensorimotor, speech & language, and cognitive goals in patients. ​

NMT is used primarily for those afflicted by neurologic injury or disease, including: Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke, Parkinson’s Disease and Huntington’s Disease.

Songbird Services provides music therapy, music lessons, and yoga services to individuals of all ages who are seeking support with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and more. Hailey Ward uses intentionality and curiosity to guide her work as music therapist. Group, couples, and virtual services are available. Hailey sees clients in her office in the Deering neighborhood of Portland, but is also available for contract work on-site (35 mile radius). All are welcome, come as you are. 

Songbird Services was founded in 2023 after Hailey relocated to Portland from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hailey has four years of clinical music therapy training across a wide variety of settings, more than a year of experience working in inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, and completed her Master’s Degree in Music Therapy from Augsburg University. 

Sara Dean, MT-BC, designs music therapy sessions which engage clients of all ages through music-making, movement, singing, songwriting, lyric analysis, relaxation and/or other music therapy techniques. These person-centered, supportive sessions help clients meet their physical, cognitive, and/or socialemotional goals. Sara also provides adapted music lessons in piano, guitar, and voice. She serves clients in both group and individual settings in Franklin, Oxford, Somerset, and Kennebec counties.

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Mount Desert Island Hospital is a highly awarded rural critical access hospital serving the Mount Desert Island and surrounding communities through a 25-bed critical access facility in Bar Harbor and a network of area health centers. Birch Bay Retirement Village in Bar Harbor Maine is their non-profit retirement community, comprised of Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care and the Don & Beth Straus Adult Day Program. ​

Board Certified Neurologic Music Therapist Melissa Violette is the Music Therapy Director for Birch Bay Retirement Village and Mount Desert Island Hospital. She brings 26 years of experience and directs the only AMTA National Roster music therapy internship program in Maine. MDI Hospital offer Outpatient music therapy through the Behavioral Health Center.

Modulations Therapies provides music therapy and music lessons to children, seniors, families and organizations in Hancock and Penobscot counties and online across Maine. It is a small practice focused on providing customers a personalized, flexible approach that respects their strengths and focuses on their potential. Sessions take place online, in homes, schools, facilities, and at partnering agencies. ​

Modulations Therapies was founded in 2015 by Carla Tanguay, a board-certified music therapist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice and healthcare management. 

Torrey Gimpel, MA, MM, MT-BC provides music therapy sessions to individuals and groups across a variety of settings in Androscoggin/Kennebec counties.

Sara Dean, MT-BC, designs music therapy sessions which engage clients of all ages through music-making, movement, singing, songwriting, lyric analysis, relaxation and/or other music therapy techniques. These person-centered, supportive sessions help clients meet their physical, cognitive, and/or socialemotional goals. Sara also provides adapted music lessons in piano, guitar, and voice. She serves clients in both group and individual settings in Franklin, Oxford, Somerset, and Kennebec counties.

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Midcoast Music Therapy works with a client’s natural interests and abilities to create an environment in which the client can thrive and heal. Whether someone has a physical disability, a mental illness, or an injury, Heather can structure a session to work with the person’s strengths and needs. Services are provided at the clients' homes and residential facilities, as well as at Midcoast Music Therapy in Warren.

Heather Ellsworth, Board Certified Neurologic Music Therapist, founded Midcoast Music Therapy in 2018. She has provided music therapy for a wide range of people, including adults with dementia, children with brain and spinal cord injuries, adults with developmental disabilities, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and prisoners with substance abuse disorder.

Dan completed his Master’s in music therapy at SUNY New Paltz and his clinical internship at the Nordoff-Robbins Institute at NYU. Shortly after, he earned his Board Certification as a music therapist followed by his LCAT to practice creative arts therapy in New York state (no licensure requirement in Maine). 

Dan has provided music therapy services in complex pediatric palliative care, nursing facilities, hospice care, special education, outpatient clinical, and in-home settings. In his most recent clinical work, Dan implemented relationship-based improvisational creative arts therapy services at Imagine Academy with autistic youth ages 3-21 in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2019, Dan has been a postgraduate student of the Analytical Music Therapy model, a psychoanalytic model of music therapy that uses embodied, collaborative musical improvisation and verbal interpretation to explore unconscious material, navigate expressive blocks, and reconstruct one's sense of self. He is continuing to study through the program at Molloy University. 

Dan is excited and deeply grateful to have the opportunity to support the Midcoast community through music therapy services, on-site, in-home, and at Midcoast Music Academy.

Midcoast Music Therapy works with a client’s natural interests and abilities to create an environment in which the client can thrive and heal. Whether someone has a physical disability, a mental illness, or an injury, Heather can structure a session to work with the person’s strengths and needs. Services are provided at the clients' homes and residential facilities, as well as at Midcoast Music Therapy in Warren.

Heather Ellsworth, Board Certified Neurologic Music Therapist, founded Midcoast Music Therapy in 2018. She has provided music therapy for a wide range of people, including adults with dementia, children with brain and spinal cord injuries, adults with developmental disabilities, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and prisoners with substance abuse disorder.

Midcoast Music Therapy works with a client’s natural interests and abilities to create an environment in which the client can thrive and heal. Whether someone has a physical disability, a mental illness, or an injury, Heather can structure a session to work with the person’s strengths and needs. Services are provided at the clients' homes and residential facilities, as well as at Midcoast Music Therapy in Warren.

Heather Ellsworth, Board Certified Neurologic Music Therapist, founded Midcoast Music Therapy in 2018. She has provided music therapy for a wide range of people, including adults with dementia, children with brain and spinal cord injuries, adults with developmental disabilities, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and prisoners with substance abuse disorder.

Wellness Through Creativity

Trauma is much more common than we wish to believe. Trauma overwhelms us & we cannot fully process what happened.  Part of us lives in that moment & we carry those wounds around with us. Trauma impacts us in all aspects of our lives.   We react to life both with what is going on now & what happened in the past. You can heal from trauma put it in the past. 

I specialize music psychotherapy.  In addition to trauma, other areas of my expertise include  creativity in healing, gender & sexual orientation journeys, acute and chronic pain, navigating oppression and discrimination, & life's ups & downs.  Through a partnership with you, we will find and travel together your path to wellness.  

I offer a variety of services including Progressive Counting & Music Therapy.  I offer weekly therapy sessions.  In addition, I offer adjunctive therapy (you continue to work with your pre-existing therapist while working with me short term focusing just on trauma) work and intensive trauma therapy (3-8 consecutive all day therapy sessions where we resolve the traumas throughout your life). 

I identify as transmasculine nonbinary & queer.  I have 30 years of experience working with children, teens, adults, & older adults.  My work centers in humanism, queer theory, culturally responsive, & anti-oppressive practices. I specialize in trauma, queer issues, stress, identity development, stress, anxiety, relaxation, & pain.

Sara Dean, MT-BC, designs music therapy sessions which engage clients of all ages through music-making, movement, singing, songwriting, lyric analysis, relaxation and/or other music therapy techniques. These person-centered, supportive sessions help clients meet their physical, cognitive, and/or socialemotional goals. Sara also provides adapted music lessons in piano, guitar, and voice. She serves clients in both group and individual settings in Franklin, Oxford, Somerset, and Kennebec counties.

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Modulations Therapies provides music therapy and music lessons to children, seniors, families and organizations in Hancock and Penobscot counties and online across Maine. It is a small practice focused on providing customers a personalized, flexible approach that respects their strengths and focuses on their potential. Sessions take place online, in homes, schools, facilities, and at partnering agencies. ​

Modulations Therapies was founded in 2015 by Carla Tanguay, a board-certified music therapist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice and healthcare management. 

Sara Dean, MT-BC, designs music therapy sessions which engage clients of all ages through music-making, movement, singing, songwriting, lyric analysis, relaxation and/or other music therapy techniques. These person-centered, supportive sessions help clients meet their physical, cognitive, and/or socialemotional goals. Sara also provides adapted music lessons in piano, guitar, and voice. She serves clients in both group and individual settings in Franklin, Oxford, Somerset, and Kennebec counties.

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Midcoast Music Therapy works with a client’s natural interests and abilities to create an environment in which the client can thrive and heal. Whether someone has a physical disability, a mental illness, or an injury, Heather can structure a session to work with the person’s strengths and needs. Services are provided at the clients' homes and residential facilities, as well as at Midcoast Music Therapy in Warren.

Heather Ellsworth, Board Certified Neurologic Music Therapist, founded Midcoast Music Therapy in 2018. She has provided music therapy for a wide range of people, including adults with dementia, children with brain and spinal cord injuries, adults with developmental disabilities, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and prisoners with substance abuse disorder.

Rhythm and Strings Music Therapy provides music therapy services in schools in York county, Maine. Rhythm and Strings Music Therapy promotes growth, development and connections through music and specializes in work with children with speech and motor challenges and differences. ​

Rhythm and Strings Music Therapy, LLC was founded by board certified music therapist Marie Miller in 2013. Marie became certified in neurologic music therapy in 2015.

Corinne Waters is a LCPC-C and Board Certified Music Therapist who provides both clinical process groups and therapeutic programming through expressive arts and music therapy for patients at Southern Maine Healthcare Behavioral Health Unit in Sanford, ME. 

Southern Maine Healthcare's inpatient Behavioral Health Unit in Sanford is a 40 bed, locked unit that provides a 24 hour treatment, caring for adults 18-95 in acute psychiatric crisis. The multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals plan and work together with the patient to provide psychiatric care, medical treatment, support, referral for follow-up care, and opportunities for learning and emotional growth. Programming on the mental health unit includes clinical groups on CBT, DBT, psychoeducation, music therapy, skill-building, and recreational activities.