Lorinda Jones, MA, MT-BC is the owner of Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky, providing contract music therapy services for children and adults with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
Lorinda Jones, MA, MT-BC, holds a degree in music education, counseling, and a music therapy certification from her equivalency work at Tennessee Technological University and internship at Evansville State Hospital. After 13 years of teaching public school music, Lorinda completed her music therapy training and began contract services in Hardin and surrounding counties. She is an active member of the state and regional music therapy organization, and has presented workshops at state, regional, and national conferences. Lorinda also remains active as a performing and recording artist, specializing in American and Celtic traditional music, with numerous books and CD's to her credit.
Lorinda Jones is a Board-Certified, Music Therapist. www.cbmt.org
Member of MTAK, Music Therapy Association of Kentucky.
Music Therapy Association of Kentucky
Owner of Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky, providing contract music therapy services for children and adults with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
Member of Very Special Arts Directory
Part-time instructor for the University of Louisville Music Therapy Department. www.louisville.edu/music/mt_degrees.html
Member of AMTA American Music Therapy Association
MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY
was founded in 1995 by Lorinda Jones, MA, MT-BC. Music therapy services have since been providing group and individual services to approximately 400 children and adults in Hardin, Meade, Grayson, Breckinridge, Fayette, Barren, Monroe,Nelson, and Metcalfe counties in Kentucky. Lorinda Jones is a Board-Certified, Music Therapist. As the owner of Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky, she and her associates provide contract music therapy services for children and adults with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
WHAT IS MUSIC THERAPY?
Music Therapy is an established health profession similar to occupational therapy and physical therapy. It consists of using music therapeutically to address physical, psychological, cognitive, behavioral and/or social functioning.
MUSIC THERAPY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Young children receive music therapy across a wide range of settings: in an educational IEP as a related service for a specific objective, in early intervention programs or as an integral part of the curriculum. Music therapy is considered a related service under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
QUALIFIED MUSIC THERAPISTS
Music therapists providing services for Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky are college graduates who have earned a minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an approved music therapy degree program. They have also passed the national certification examination and have the credential MT-BC (Music Therapist-Board Certified).
MUSIC THERAPY
SERVICES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY MUSIC STAFF
Greta
E. Gillmeister MT-BC is a board certified music therapist.
Greta grew up in Milton, West Virginia and after graduating
high school she attended the University of Kentucky where
she received her Bachelor in Music in 1996. She then pursued
her graduate/equivalency degree in music therapy at the
University of Kansas. Greta has worked clinically with
children who are deaf and hard of hearing, children and
adults with varying levels of developmental disabilities,
geriatric psych patients, and well older adults. Greta
currently resides in Louisville, KY and contracts music
therapy services in school districts serving individuals and
groups with developmental disabilities and emotional and
behavioral disorders.
Allison Kerr MT-BC works as a Music Therapist Board
Certified in her Nashville private practice and contract
work in Kentucky; she services people with Autism, Stroke,
Traumatic Brain Injury, ADHD and other disabilities. In
addition, Ms. Kerr develops training video CD ROMs/booklets
and leads guitar workshops for other music therapists.
Allison holds degrees from the University of Texas at
Austin, and Tennessee Tech University.
Jenny Krider MT-BC has spent the last four years practicing
music therapy in schools and privately with children and
adults with special needs. Jenny received her Bachelor of
Music in Music Therapy degree from the University of Evansville in 1999. Jenny completed
her music therapy internship at the Northern Wisconsin
Center for the Developmentally Disabled in August 2000 and
passed the Certification Board for Music Therapists exam in
December 2000. From August 2000 - August 2001 Jenny worked
in Cleveland, Ohio as a music therapist at the Cleveland
Music School Settlement. Since August 2001 Jenny has worked
as a contract music therapist for Music Therapy Services of
Central Kentucky as well as with private clients in Kentucky
and Indiana. Jenny is a member of the American Music Therapy
Association and is secretary of the Music Therapy
Association of Kentucky.
Paula Roberts, MT-BC is a 2007 graduate of the University of Louisville with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy. She completed her music therapy internship with Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky under the supervision of Lorinda Jones, MA, MT-BC. Since June of 2007 Paula has worked as a contract music therapist for Music Therapy Services of Central Kentucky where she serves individuals and groups with developmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral disabilities as well as private clients. Paula is also the secretary of the Music Therapy Association of Kentucky.
