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Antoinette Morrison MT-BC
Founder and Lead Therapist at Back Mountain Music Therapy
About Antoinette
Antoinette Morrison relies upon over 30 years of experience in Music Therapy and various other roles she has held in education and development. Antoinette is currently the Founder and owner of her private practice, Back Mountain Music Therapy-The Heyward Rooms, LLC, in which she employs and oversees 2 other clinicians besides herself.
Back Mountain Music Therapy is accredited by the ICDL (International Counsel of Development and Learning) in DIR Floor-time, and all clinicians there have certifications in DIR Floor- time and Music Therapy. Locally, Back Mountain Music Therapy has made presentations to local Universities on Music Therapy, and presentations on working with children. Antoinette previously spent almost 10 years as the clinical Music Therapy Supervisor at Marywood University where she supervised students in 1:1 clinical Music Therapy. In addition, she taught the clinical improvisational music therapy class, supervised students at various education and rehabilitation sites and supervised and trained her own interns at Back Mountain Music Therapy. Antoinette became a Board-Certified Music Therapist in 1990, and from there held positions as a primary therapist at Northeast Tri-county Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, music therapist in her private practice, a partial hospitalization teacher at Vitalistic and a Therapeutic Center of the Lehigh Valley. She taught preschool at Gate of Heaven Parochial School in Dallas, Pa for five years; provided contractual music therapy services at Northeast Intermediate Unit and at Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 and Wyoming Valley Children’s association. In addition, in her own time, Antoinette lead and accompanied various children’s and adult choirs on the side.
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About The Company
Back Mountain Music Therapy, The Heyward Rooms LLC is a DIR-Floortime accredited organization. DIR-Floortime combines the vigor of playful interactions within an attuned,reciprocal interchange as the incentive that furthers development across the lifespan. This is a powerful individual-centered approach championing the dignity of each individual and family’s culture, uniqueness and strengths. This approach stresses the prominence of family involvement and partnership. DIR emphasizes ranking connection and trust through shared participatory involvement, that are significant and robust in order to generate a bedrock for healthy emotional. social and cognitive development. An expanded sense of agency, self-hood and a positive sense of well being are priority.
The Medical Association (AMA), has adopted a resolution (Resolution 706), entitled “Revision of H-185.921”, Removal of AMA support for Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy ( [AMA], 2023, pp. 1179-1182). The new policy includes all evidenced based therapies including DIR Floor time .
As a DIR-Floortime accredited organization, Back Mountain Music Therapy is a client-led, Developmental-Relationship based Therapy, that cultivates attention, self-regulation, engagement, and communication through relating in a safe, predictable environment.
While simultaneously considering each individuals preferences and differences, BMMT administers an evidenced-based assessment, through musical play, which drives musical, relational experiences to aid in further developing core emotional milestones necessary for expanding higher levels of thought in order to help clients increase their abilities to relax, regulate, engage, express, communicate and relate
Our service may be what you are looking for if you have a loved one with ADHD, other attention and focus issues. Has someone your family experienced disruptive life changes, Brain injury, Irreversible Neurodegenerative brain diseases, Language or Communication Delays, other types of Developmental Disabilities, Neurological challenges, behavioral or emotional challenges? Is your family member, or yourself, going through a major life change? Are you seeking services for things such as Autism, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome, Trauma-related issues, or Sensory Processing issues that makes everyday life a litte more work?