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Flashback: Tom Sweitzer’s COVID-19 Long Hauler group featured in Woman’s World Magazine
May 21, 2021 The Long Haulers group was founded by one of our co-founders, Tom Sweitzer. The group had music therapy sessions and helped other people who had long-haul symptoms. Tom himself is a long-haul survivor and has helped many people in a positive way through music. You can find more information here.
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NPR: Music Therapy Brings Solace To COVID-19 Patients And Healers
February 13, 2021 Tom Sweitzer knows firsthand how social isolation and loneliness are real side effects of living through a pandemic — just as mental health professionals have warned. After he tested positive for the coronavirus last July and recovered from the worst of his initial symptoms, Sweitzer joined a COVID-19 support group on Facebook to…
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NPR: Music Therapists Are Trying To Help COVID-19 Patients Who Experience Loneliness
February 8, 2021 A music therapist in Virginia started a weekly support group for COVID-19 patients to help them deal with social isolation and loneliness. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Can you sing your way through social isolation and loneliness? A music therapist in Virginia started a support group for people with COVID-19. As NPR’s Elizabeth…
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ABC-7 Washington – Our Support for Local Music Therapy Nonprofit A Place To Be [Video]
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ABC-7 Washington: Va. non-profit provides music therapy for kids, adults with special needs during pandemic [Video]
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Tom Sweitzer Guest Lecture For Nelson Mandela University Psychology Society [Video]
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Tom Sweitzer Joins Renée Fleming For “Music & Mind” [Video]
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AARP: Bridging Sound and Science: Music’s Role in Healing
February 28, 2020 Survivors who sing Standing over a keyboard at the front of a beige conference room on a satellite college campus in Loudon, Virginia, Sweitzer, a music therapist, addressed the dozen or so adults seated in front of him. Some were joined by caregivers; others came solo. Everyone held sheet music. “Let’s start…
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Loudoun Times Mirror: The healing power of music: A Place to Be offers support, community through stroke survivor choir
Dec 31, 2019 One of the greatest challenges for recovering stroke survivors is regaining a sense of self, and the Different Strokes for Different Folks choir gives new meaning to the idea of finding one’s voice. Tom Sweitzer, co-founder of Middleburg-based music therapy organization A Place to Be, began the choir five years ago to help…
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Altoona Mirror: Pillars of the Arts: Blair County Arts Hall of Fame ushers in new honorees
