Colleen is a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) from State College, PA. They studied at Temple University in Philadelphia, where they received their Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy with a voice concentration. They spent their college summers in High Falls, NY, working as Camp Huntingdon’s music counselor for children and adults with severe developmental disabilities. Colleen completed their internship at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey, where they worked with women from many different demographics and backgrounds, with diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric diagnoses.
Following their internship, Colleen moved to New Zealand to work, travel, and make music with people from all over the world. Their love of mountains brought them to Denver, where they have been living and working as a music therapist for children and adults with developmental and physical disabilities. They have experience working with diagnoses such as autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, Rett syndrome, and many other diagnoses.