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Providing individual and group music therapy throughout Philadelphia via telehealth, in facilities and at Inner Rhythms Music and Therapy Center.

Providing clinical supervision and continuing education.

08/27/2026

Take your time and don't stress about the stress management course. I added a year. Gargageband and Spontaneous songwriting will be permanently closed in November and January respectively. You can take as long as you want to watch, but I won't be able to give cmte credits after they close. I will be revamping song writing and releasing some time in 2027. (image: light green background, little picture of Audrey playing a red bass, text: Extended through 9/7/26:
Creating Music for Stress Management
4 credits, $45

Closing 11/16/26:
Use of Garageband in Music Therapy
4 credits, $45

Closing 01/28/27:
Spontaneous Songwriting in Mental Health Care
2 credits, $30

All courses free for Black and Indigenous Music Therapists and Black and Indigenous Music Therapy Students as a form of reparations)

08/19/2026

This is about breaking down hierarchy and isolation and lifting up connection and community. When we exclude staff, visitors, and humans in the room, we can cause a lot of harm. When we include them, we build community and it helps the clients directly and through their connection to others. I will 100% take a song request from staff, play baby shark in an adult group for a visiting 4 year old, and hand everyone in sight an instrument. I will also include and love on any available cats and dogs. (Why wouldn't we want to harness the power of pets into our healing?!) (ID: philly skyline through a filter (not a i) text: Include everyone in the room in your music therapy session. The staff, the aid, the family member, even the cat. Include their voices, music, experiences and humanity.

It will increase the sense of community and build connection and understanding.

It will normalize therapy as something for everyone as opposed to othering the clients.

It will increase individual and communal well being.

It will increase the diversity of experience, support, perspectives and culture.)

08/06/2026

Nothing new here. Will you think about each of these, notice what's what, how it makes you feel, and what you need to do about it? (Image: Philly skyline, text: What biases interfere with therapists trusting clients to direct their care?
Is it grooming, diction, address, formal education, profession, physical ability, neurotype, speech, insurance, diagnosis, race, size, gender expression, age, accent, class, legal status, culture, nationality, wealth, transportation, song choice?
How do you plan to get aware and work through it?)

08/01/2026

New CMTE!!
www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com/store
(image 1: colorful records, Audrey playing her re bass wearing a white dress in Godzilla proportions: text
Do you want to get better with:
• Choosing songs collaboratively and reflexively?
• Verbal Processing?
• Ways to implement songs?
• Transitions?
Song Work in Music Therapy: Implementation and Processing is a 6-credit self-study covering all of this.
Opens 8/1/26. $55
Free for Black and Indigenous Music Therapists and Black and Indigenous Music Therapy Students only as a form of reparations. Register: www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com)
Image 2: Song Work in Music Therapy: Implementation and Processing
Explore how to facilitate song work from a liberatory, reflexive framework when choosing, implementing and processing songs. This 6-credit self-study includes a video, pdf and independent study worksheets. This course is designed for professional music therapists, music therapy supervisors, and advanced students.
Audrey Hausig, MMT, MT-BC is in her 26th year of music therapy practice with a focus in mental health with people of all ages. She aspires to practice and teach from anti-oppressive frameworks.
This course will be open from 08/01/2026-08/01/2027 Cost: $55
This course is free for Black and Indigenous Music Therapists and Black and Indigenous Music Therapy Students as a form of reparations. (Use the code “reparations” at check-out) Need based scholarships are available. (Full refunds are available until the video links and handouts are sent out at which time payment is nonrefundable) Register: www.philadelphiamusictherapy/store or [email protected]

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
-Identify 3 possible therapist reservations related to song work. (3A5, 34)
-Identify 5 considerations related to choosing songs in sessions. (3A1, 3A3, 31, 32)
-Identify 15 questions to ask during verbal processing of songs. (3A-7, 36)

Course schedule: Total: 300 minutes (5hrs)
Introduction & Frameworks: 19
Implementation: 208
Choosing songs and experiences
Liberatory, trauma informed directives
Processing
Experiences (Interventions)
Documentation: 5
Independent study: 70

“Song Work Music Therapy: Implementation & Processing” is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 6 Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. Philadelphia Music Therapy -203 maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria. In addition, the provider is solely responsible for the registration process for this program, including pricing.

07/23/2026

The news is harsh and painful, but if you chose to be a therapist, you need to know it and fight it. The privilege of being able to ignore it does not take away therapist responsibility. So take in this softness for a minute, then get to knowing and fighting. (Image: Almond Joy, a striped tabby cat sleeping with her arm covering her eyes. text: Cats can sleep all day and avoid the outside world. Therapists need to be aware of what's going on in the world and need to actively fight for justice and freedom in and out of the therapy room. )

07/11/2026

This course is approved and will be out 8/1/26. I started it years ago and then lots of stuff got in the way, but it is finally (almost) complete. I hope it will help music therapists feel more confident in their verbal processing and better able to work reflexively with client chosen songs. (ID: background: a pile of records, Audrey playing her red sanyo fretless bass, text: release date: 8.1.25. Song work in music therapy: implementation and Processing. Explore how to facilitate song work from a liberatory, reflexive framework when choosing, implementing and processing songs. This 6-credit self-study includes a video, pdf and independent study worksheets. )

07/08/2026

It's really baffling, yet sadly expected that so many clinicians, music therapists included, are racism deniers, oppression deniers, and choose to ignore the ways healthcare is political. Doing that upholds and perpetuates white supremacy, point blank. I worry for the people they work with, the people they're around, the people they teach. This is just a fraction of what people have written me. (We'd need countless more slides if I included the trash people wrote me to in my role in a certain organization.- although it's improved) Advice of the day: If you don't want to be called a racist, stop doing racist things. (Image: green background. Little photo of Audrey playing a red bass. Text: Ignoring oppression and mischaracterizing equity and education as “divisive” is white supremacy.
“If you are giving something free to one people group and not all, how is this not discrimination and promoting one persons race over another? You are giving something to a group of people based on the color of their skin and ethnicity.....Are you creating more of a divide by doing this?”
“After reviewing the course content, I found the material on white supremacism to be deeply off-putting.”
99% sure this is a white person who used the reparations code, then lied about completing the course. They always to tell on themselves.
“My partner, a cis female feels offended by the excluding of all women by your corporation only involving reparations for African Americans, and indigenous people.”
“I have no opinion on this issue, but it has absolutely nothing to do with music therapy. please keep your own political input to yourself. I like this page but will kindly unfollow if it becomes political.”
These are health care professionals.) Better

07/06/2026

A riff to support directive for autogenic training, to help relax and ground the body. We can't just keep pushing without rest and replenishment. This would gradually slow down and spend some more time in between each body part.

06/12/2026

Image: Philly skyline, text: Incarceration is not designed for rehabilitation* and safety.
It's for profits, slave labor, and control. It causes trauma, injury, isolation, oppression, and death. Therapists have an ethical obligation to help keep clients free.
Don't write incriminating notes.
Don't call the state.
Don't comply.
*Convicted people don't need rehabilitation. They need resources, access, justice, and freedom.

06/01/2026

This course is extended through June 16 2027. Procrastinate away! (ID: green background, little image of Audrey playing a red bass in a white dress, text: Reflexive Music therapy, 7 credit, Self Study CMTE
3 ethics credits
06/15/25-06/16/27
$60
free as a form of reparations to
Black and Indigenous Music Therapists
see full details at www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com

Let go of rigidity, control and over planning and lean into empowering, accepting and trusting clients. Learn to co-create session plans in the moment with the clients to reflect their needs and preferences. )

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Philadelphia, PA

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+12672756154

Website

http://www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com/

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