Music Therapy at Third Street

To better serve our diverse student body, Third Street has expanded our offerings to include professional music therapy.

What Does Music Therapy Look Like at Third Street?

Music therapy at Third Street is engaging, creative, interactive, and individualized. Sessions are designed around each participant's strengths, interests, and therapeutic goals.

While every session is unique, participants may engage in a variety of musical experiences, including singing, playing instruments, movement, improvisation, songwriting, rhythm activities, and listening to music. Activities are thoughtfully adapted to support each individual's goals and unique relationship with music.

Music Therapy Intake Form

Thank you for your interest in the Music Therapy Program at Third Street Music School. 

Please complete the music therapy intake form so we may better understand your goals, preferences, and background, and tailor sessions to meet your needs. 

All personal information shared is confidential and protected under HIPAA and FERPA regulations. Information will not be shared without written consent.

 
(This form may be completed by the participant, a parent/guardian, family member, or referring professional.)

How Can Music Therapy Help?

Music therapy can support individuals across the lifespan with a wide range of developmental, neurological, medical, and mental health needs. Because music naturally engages movement, communication, attention, memory, emotion, and social interaction, it provides a unique therapeutic medium for addressing individualized goals.

Depending on each person's goals, music therapy may help improve:

• Communication and language skills
• Emotional expression and self-regulation
• Social interaction and relationship building
• Attention, memory, and cognitive functioning
• Motor coordination, balance, and movement
• Sensory processing
• Coping, resilience, and overall quality of life

What is music therapy?

Music therapy is a creative, evidence-based health profession in which board-certified music therapists intentionally use music within a therapeutic relationship to support each individual's strengths, needs, and goals.

Through shared musical experiences, including singing, playing instruments, songwriting, movement, improvisation, and music listening, participants of all abilities can develop communication, emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and behavioral skills in ways that honor each person's unique relationship with music.

Who Can Benefit from Music Therapy?

Music therapy may benefit children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, including:

• Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
• ADHD
• Anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions
• Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions
• Stroke and brain injury
• Dementia and other memory-related conditions
• Chronic illness and individuals undergoing rehabilitation
• Individuals seeking support for communication, emotional well-being, social connection, or personal growth

Core Medical and Psychological Benefits

Music therapy stimulates multiple regions of the brain simultaneously—including areas managing emotion, memory, speech, and motor control—to trigger the following clinical outcomes:

Mental Health: Lowers stress and lessens physical pain, helps regulate heart rates and reduces cortisol levels and releases dopamine.

Physical Rehabilitation: Improves motor coordination, gait speed, and balance in patients with Parkinson's disease or traumatic brain injuries

Developmental Support: Enhances speech production, sensory processing, and social turn-taking cues for individuals on the autism spectrum.

Neurological & Memory Care: Helps individuals with advanced dementia recall memories and find a non-verbal channel to connect with others.

PRIVATE CLINICAL MUSIC THERAPY

Private Clinical Music Therapy services are provided by our team of board-certified therapists, who use music to address specific client needs and goals for growth and development.

After a personal consultation assessing each client's strengths and needs, a determination is made with the individual or family members regarding the goals and direction of services. Practitioners provide the indicated treatment interventions, including instrumental improvisation, singing, songwriting, active listening, recording, and/or performing. 

Through this co-creative process, we work with clients to explore and nurture their unique connection to music and to actualize their healthy potential. 

Music Therapy Options

All music therapy sessions at Third Street are registered by semester and run for 15 weeks. Sessions are scheduled individually to best meet the needs of clients and their families. Clients may register up to 10 weeks into a semester and pay prorated tuition based on the remaining weeks. At Third Street, you can always change your lesson length and schedule.

Have any more questions?

Connect with our Student Services team to learn more about Music Therapy at Third Street.

Email: Student.Services@ThirdStreet.nyc

Phone: 212-777-3240 ext. 17