music, therapy, and me

I am going to write this blog for one hour, starting now, and try to make something that has relevance for all of my designators in the title of this blog - music, therapy, and me. This is not always an easy task. There are times when the music takes over, others when therapy is foremost on my mind, and I am usually prone to talking about me - one of my favorite topics. So, let's talk about music, therapy, and me this morning. We will get the "me" part over with. I am still tired, very frustrated with a particular client who has decided to target aggression towards me, and happy that today is Thursday rather than yesterday. I wish I had some more stuff to get me energized, but tired seems to be my default lately. I'm going to blame my changing hormones for all of this exhaustion. I am currently feeling inundated by a plethora of phone calls from all sorts of people wanting to give me things or sell me something or to set up appointments. Some of these people know that...

Oh. Yesterday was a day of group therapy, individual interactions, and trying to keep my mind going through lots of situations - real and imagined. I will be going into my office today with the goals of finishing my documentation (I have two groups and an individual to go) and setting up my session strategies for next week. Now, don't get me wrong. I LOVE working with interns! I do. Being an internship supervisor is the type of educational thing that I enjoy more than any other!! I am a big proponent of experiential learning and full immersion in topic areas, and clinical training is the way I can incorporate those education pedagogical constructs into the thing that I love more than anything else - actually doing music therapy! I know, each time I offer an internship position to an applicant, that there will be a time when I will have to remove myself from the role of therapist. I will have to spend lots of time in my office, still observing and monitoring, but my role w...