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