Still Standing Podcast

A Still Standing Podcast Interview with guest, Colton Thorn (CT), a board certified music therapist, performing singer-songwriter, and equal rights advocate. They believe that music can empower and encourage growth and change in everyone. They believe music provides an “in the moment” connection, and loves to help foster independent and group growth.   In the fourth edition of Still Standing Together's, "Foundations in Mental Health" Episode Series, Colton offers perspective on their music journey helpings others and themself, especially when coping with resistance from people accepting who you are.  They also define what music therapy is along with its benefits, such as increasing positive interactions with others, socializing, and motor functions and how it's used for rehabilitation with other types of therapy in assistance for autism, psychiatric hospitals, and newborn intensive care units.   Returning to the Hudson Valley after living in Philadelphia for the past ten years, the pandemic made them pause an