Growing Harmonies Music Therapy Services
Welcome to Growing Harmonies Music Therapy Services. I offer individual and group music therapy sessions for children and their caregivers. I use evidence-based music therapy practices to enhance your child’s cognitive, emotional, and social skills. Each session is carefully crafted to accommodate diverse abilities and learning styles to promote holistic development in a fun and engaging way.
Each group session will nurture meaningful bonds between caregivers and their little ones, ages 3-5. Families will learn to use music as a tool for emotion regulation, stress reduction, for enhancing communication and social skills, and for encouraging play.
Contact Kristin to schedule your free consultation and discuss the best fit for your child and family
2141 Indianola Avenue
At Growing Harmonies, you will find:
An inclusive and supportive environment
Sessions tailored for diverse abilities
Small class sizes (no more than 4 in a class) for personalized attention
Each session will include fun, motivating activities:
Movement songs and games, including songs to encourage walking, jumping, marching, clapping, and identification of body parts
Instrument play, such as tone bells, rhythm sticks, shakers, jingle bells, and hand drums
Emotion and body regulation songs to encourage breathing, rocking, and peacefulness, such as lullabies
Songs to encourage vocalizations and verbalizations, such as familiar children’s songs - “Twinkle Little Star,” the “ABC song,” and "Old McDonald”
Each song and activity is suited to target a variety of skills:
Communication, including verbalizations, vocalizations, gestural (such as pointing)
Social Skills, including environment and self awareness, parallel play, taking turns, joint atttention
Gross motor skills, including walking, jumping, marching, stomping, reaching high and reaching low
Fine motor skills, including finger isolation to point, grasping instruments and other manipulatives, clapping
About Me: Kristin Kummer, MT-BC
With over 20 years experience working with children and their caregivers, I am passionate about the importance of early childhood intervention and the positive role music can play in it. I started out as a teacher of early childhood music and movement, working and playing with classes of infants through 5-years-olds and their caregivers. Witnessing and taking part in the joy music brought to these families inspired me to become a music therapist. I studied music at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and then studied music therapy at Baldwin Wallace, near Cleveland, Ohio. In my 15+ year career as a board-certified music therapist, I have worked with individuals on the autism spectrum and various other diagnoses ages 3 years old through adults. I love working with people of all ages.
Withdrawal Policy
Tuition is refundable, minus a $15 processing fee, for terms dropped more than 7 days prior to the session start date.
If you withdraw between 7 days and 48 hours before the first session, you will receive a credit, which can be used for future terms.
Growing Harmonies will not issue refunds or credit for terms within 48 hours of the first meeting. An exception will be made in cases of a documented medical emergency with a physician’s note.
Cancellations: Classes are canceled when enrollment minimums are not reached. Students will be notified if classes are canceled and will be eligible for a full refund or class credit. Class credit does not expire and can be used towards future terms.
Rescheduling and Make-Up Classes:
If Growing Harmonies must reschedule a class, a week will be added the the end of the term. If a student misses a regularly scheduled session, the session cannot be made up and the term will not be prorated.
