SERVICE OFFERINGS

Music Therapy:
Our board certified music therapists’ work with children, teens, adults and older adults with a wide variety of needs and abilities. We believe in taking an anti-oppressive, neuro-inclusive, and person centered approach in our work. Music therapy sessions may address (but is not limited to) the following goal areas:

• relieving stress and anxiety
• strengthening cognitive/communication skills
• increasing memory retention and recall
• enhancing emotional expression

Community Creative Arts:
Our collective of arts and health practitioners, music therapists, technologists, and multidisciplinary artists collaborate and co-facilitate a wide variety of enriching community based experiences, groups, and events, such as:

• community music therapy groups
• community sings
• open mics
• community ensembles/chorus
• creative workshops
• mental health education/advocacy
• community led projects musical performances
• traveling sensory-friendly zones

‍Music Education:
Our board certified music therapists’ and professional musicians teach a diverse range of music classes including:

• early childhood music exploration/enrichment
• adaptive lessons (voice, piano, cello, guitar, violin)
• group lessons  

Creative Peer Support:
Non-clinical support guided by creative expression, presence, and lived experience with disability, chronic illness, and grief. Our team takes a non-pathologizing and person-centered approach to care, and alongside you, we can support with:

• processing grief and loss
• patient advocacy within the medical system
  
• exploring creative and integrative strategies, including writing, art, music, and movement, to reconnect and reground
  
• talking through dreams, values, creative projects, and supporting your journey towards materializing them
  
• talking through the experience of being queer, chronically ill, neurodivergent, or disabled, with someone who understands.

‍*all offerings are available virtually or in-person, and can happen in an individual or group capacity*

Please contact director@neuroarts.org for more program information!

Our goal is to keep our services as accessible as possible! Please fill out the following form if you require any financial assistance.

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OUR TEAM

Grace Frielink, Future MT-BC, Adaptive and Traditional Lesson Instructor (She/Her/Hers)

Grace Frielink is a recent graduate of Eastern Michigan’s BA in Music Therapy program and soon to be MT-BC! Grace is thrilled to be a member of the NeuroArts collective and co-direct the Creative Care program! She recently completed her music therapy internship at the Hochstein School in Rochester, NY where she provided community-based music therapy services for individuals and groups in the Greater Rochester area including: adults of all ages in group homes, older adults in assisted living and memory care facilities, elementary-aged students in schools, and early intervention speech, music, and occupational therapy co-treat groups for toddlers. Grace approaches her music therapy sessions with an autism-informed, neuro-inclusive, anti-oppressive, humanistic, and community centered lens. She also enjoys teaching music lessons, and has over six years of experience teaching cello, violin, viola, piano, and voice.

Grace is also a passionate songwriter, composer, and writes under the name “Grassy Joy”. Her music explores her personal life experiences, the human condition, and love. She is currently working on her debut album titled “Grassy Joy” and is looking forward to sharing her new music soon!

Hobbies: photography, dance, hiking, dilly dallying

My Favorite Local Restaurant: Tuptim Thai Cuisine

Sasha Gusikhin, Therapeutic Musician, Community Mental Health Worker (She/Her/Hers)

Sasha Gusikhin is a vocalist, flutist, and multidisciplinary artist based in Southeast MI. Her work centers improvisation, interactivity, and co-creation as a means of creative expression, community-building, and health justice advocacy. As an artist living with chronic illness, she is passionate about advocacy for person-centered health care, as well as providing neuroscience-informed, arts-integrated peer support to other individuals living with disability. She is a recent graduate of Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience and multidisciplinary voice performance at the University of Michigan, committed to merging diverse disciplines to reimagine mental health care!  She serves as the director of NeuroArts Productions and the Aphasia Community Friendship Center, which has continued to light her passion for community-based mental health and advocacy work. As a first generation American-born artist, she is able to lead sessions in both English and Russian. For 1:1 support, she offers:

• Lessons in voice, flute, and improvisation, (with a focus on therapeutic frameworks for expression)
• Music performance focused on memory care and communication practice
  
• 1:1 consultations with a focus on navigating disability and chronic pain
• Patient care advocacy within the healthcare system

Hobbies: Drawing, listening to live music, going to the farmer’s market, laying in the grass! A recent performance linked here!

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