Education, Training & Expertise in Healing Arts

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Facts

  • BA: Colorado State University – Music Therapy and Psychology
  • Expressive Arts and Music Therapy Internship: UCSF Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute · MA: Organizational Leadership
  • Current – finished first three levels at Atma Buti Sound Healing Institute, Boulder, CO (working toward full teacher-level certification)
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Further Training/Workshops

  • Guided Imagery and Music Technique
  • Post-stroke paralysis & Music
  • Collage, clay, and other techniques to uncover what’s been lost
  • Internal Family Systems – introductory courses
  • Transcendental Meditation (active meditator since 1988!)
  • Orff Schulwerk, Improvisation and Mental Health
  • Women & Trauma – Unlocking Your True Self
  • Traumatic Brain Injury – vibration, circuitry, and neuroscience
  • Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Music as a healing tool

Past Employment

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Music / Expressive Arts Therapist

  • Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, Day Treatment Program
  • Napa State Hospital
  • Veteran's Home of California
  • Very Special Arts (nationally)
  • Nursing homes, hospices, and residential treatment centers (nationally)
  • Homeless Project, Des Moines, Iowa
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Leadership Positions

  • Director, Strategic Planning, Department Neurosurgery and Neuroscience Initiatives at University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
  • Executive Director, Colorado Neurological Institute, Denver, CO
  • Director of Administration & Development, Third Way Center (large residential treatment program for youth), Denver, CO
  • Executive Director, Sister Carmen Center (services for the un-housed and low income). Lafayette, CO
  • Director, Rehabilitation Activities & Creative Arts Therapy Program, Veteran’s Home of California, Yountville, CA
  • Executive Director, Napa Valley Mental Health Association, Napa, CA
  • Executive Director, Alzheimer’s Respite Center & Day Treatment Program, Napa, CA
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Personal Info

Tami lives in Golden, Colorado with her husband, Roy, and their two doodles, Loofah and Cupcake. She has three sons, two stepdaughters, and three grandchildren (so far!). She plays the guitar, is a songwriter, loves her family, the mountains, good movies, and knitting (but only in straight lines. Want a scarf?). She believes in affordable health care for all and has always dreamed of opening an expressive arts practice that could provide alternative healing modalities for those in need, at reduced or no cost. RESONATE! Is her dream come true!

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