[Lauren Roberts]

Hello! My name is Lauren Roberts and I live in Atlanta, Ga. I have both a bachelor and master of music education, and just finished my master of music therapy in October at Georgia College. I have been teaching private piano lessons for over 10 years, and am just now starting to get my feet wet with music therapy clients. Right now I have only one contract with a small private school in the area for children on the autism spectrum, and provide services for their lower school (ages 7-12). They’re all really quite high functioning, and so even that has turned into a music education class half the time! I’m really just now getting my business established and would love to offer early childhood services for at least two reasons: 1)I just simply and absolutely love early childhood, and 2)I want to be able to maximize my time by being able to offer group sessions in addition to individual private lessons or therapy sessions.

I first became interested in the early childhood population during my undergraduate music education work. My on-campus job as a freshman was working in the Kindermusik program offered through the music department. Since I wasn’t a trained Kindermusik provider I was really just working the CD player and passing out/collecting instruments, but I absolutely fell in love with it. And then, ever since I began my music therapy studies, I knew that I wanted to offer early childhood services as part of my future private practice. I only recently heard about Sprouting Melodies, however, through another amazing CMTE opportunity on Kat Fulton’s site, MusicTherapyEd.com, in the new course moderated by Darcy Lipscomb, Zero to Full Time: Clinic Spaces, for which they visited Roman Music Therapy Services and interviewed Meredith! (Whew, that was a mouthful!) Then as I got deeper into the course and figured out Connecticut Music Therapy Services also offers Sprouting Melodies, I went, “wait a minute!” Did my research, found out that it’s an early childhood music program through Raising Harmony, but even better than others already out there because it’s by music therapists and for music therapists, and I can be a provider! I think I found out about it around the 18th or so, only to see this training was starting in a few days, signed up immediately, and here I am!

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