Owner/Music Therapist:

Alan "Jeffrey" Friedberg MT-BC, LCAT​

Jeffrey is a board-certified music therapist and a NY State licensed creative arts therapist. He created Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy since in 2013 to help children, teens and adults use music to build important life skills and have meaningful experiences. For 25 years he has provided music therapy to children, teens and adults in schools, hospitals and day programs. He also runs the Parents' Choice Award-winning children band, The Bossy Frog Band. He graduated from NYU with an MA in music therapy. 

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Music Therapist:

Molly Gorman MT-BC, PLCAT

Molly is a board-certified music therapist and a provisional NY State licensed creative arts therapist. She has worked at Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy for 3 years providing individual and group music therapy and lessons as well as being onsite supervisor for the Musical Theater Program. She has a background in Broadway music, both vocally and piano, and play guitar as well as several other instruments. She graduated from NYU with an MA in music therapy.

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Music Therapist:

Elin Fleming MT-BC
Elin is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans, LA. She interned at Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy and is now a full time music therapist here. She plays guitar, piano, drums, clarinet, saxophone and ukulele and sings. We are excited to have her on staff. She provides services at our main office in Nyack and in The Bronx and Queens doing outreach for The Shield Institute.

 

 

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Art Therapist:

Grace Pyo ATR

Grace is a registered art therapist (ATR). She has extensive experiences working with children, teens and adults in a variety of settings including Rockland Psychiatric Center, Bardonia Elementary School, All Hallows High School and Metropolitan Hospital. Grace is a graduate of The College of New Rochelle Graduate School. She brings a broad range of skills to Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy.

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Music Teacher:

Dave Reiss

Dave is a professional musician, educator, sound engineer and entrepreneur. He has taught private music lessons and group lesson sin NY and NJ since 2006. He has helped many students of all ages and skill levels to achieve their musical goals. Dave teaches beginner through expert guitar, bass and music theory lessons. He also teaches beginner piano and drums, and can teach all levels of performers to play cohesively together or to improve their existing band. He graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Musical Theater Program:

Terese Giammarco

Terese has worked at Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy as Director in the musical theater program since 2018. She has worked in The Bossy Frog Band with Jeffrey Friedberg for over 10 years. She has over 20 years experience as an educator, currently working with individuals with special needs and their families as a curriculum assistant at the Manitou School in Cold spring New York. She is also a long time veteran of the theater and film industry.  Her son, a young adult with Autism, is the inspiration for combining her background in both areas and joining the team here at Music for Life C.A.T. Terese is passionate about creating more opportunities for people with disabilities through creative expression in this wonderfully, integrated environment that is open to all. 

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Acting Coach/Musical Theater Program:

Rick Apicella

Rick is an award-winning actor from Pearl River, NY. He has been performing on stage and television in and around NYC for the past fifteen years. He has worked as acting coach in Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy’s Musical Theater Program since 2018. As a playwright, some of Rick’s recent plays include Something in the Way (2020), produced by Bristol Valley Theater via Broadway On Demand, The Legend (2018), which was COMMEDED by the BBC and produced at the Westchester Collaborative Theater in Ossining, NY and The Prodigy (2017) produced at the Studio Theater on Theater Row, NYC. Also, Rick has been a proud member of The Bossy Frog Band since 2014 and proud father to his five year old son, Richie.

 

Play Therapy/Psychotherapy/Parent Coaching:

Beth Friedberg LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Beth Friedberg LCSW, has over 25 years’ experience providing parent coaching and therapy to children, teens and adults. Please contact Jeffrey Friedberg MT-BC, LCAT for a consultation and to arrange a session with Beth.

• Play Therapy: Through play, children learn new ways to manage anger, anxiety, focus/attention, emotional regulation, social and behavioral challenges, sleep, school issues, loss/grief, and more.

• Parent Coaching: Many challenges children face can be most effectively addressed through helping the parent(s). Work on a variety of issues from regulation, focus, behavior and anxiety/anger.

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Music Therapist:

Sarah Morris MT-BC, LCAT

Sarah Morris MT-BC, LCAT is a board certified music therapist and NY State licensed creative arts therapist. She joins Music For Life Creative Arts Therapy after being the director of therapeutic recreation at Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home in NYC and chorus director at Actionplay Chorus/AIM Workshop. At Mary Manning Walsh she spent several years providing music therapy to seniors before she became director of her department. At Actionplay she lead weakly choir rehearsal s for young adults on the autistic spectrum. She has also worked with young children with special needs. Sarah is a talented vocalist and plays guitar and piano. Sarah has an MA in music therapy from NYU.

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Art Therapist:

Christine Randolph ATR-BC, LCAT

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Christine Randolph is a NYS-licensed and board certified art therapist. She has worked at Four Winds Hospital and was the Director of the Rockland Living Museum at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, NY. Christine is very passionate about all forms of creativity and how art can inspire personal growth and healing.