Rick Soshensky, MA, LCAT, MT-BC, NRMT, CBIS

Rick has been featured in major newspapers and  appeared on radio programs (including National Public Radio) to discuss the benefits of music therapy.

Please click on the links below to hear and/or read the articles of interest:

Rick Soshensky was named one of Therapy Times’ 2008 Most Influential Therapists of the Year

Rick Soshensky, MA, MT-BC, NRMT, CBIS
Evoking Self-Awareness Through the Arts

As a board-certified music therapist with 16 years of experience, Rick Soshensky, MA, MT-BC, NRMT, CBIS, has had more than his share of experience in working with developmental disabilities, emotional/behavioral disturbances, and traumatic brain injury. As director of the Fine & Performing Arts Department of the Northeast Center for Special Care (NCSC) in Lake Katrine, N.Y., Soshensky is putting that familiarity to good use.

At NCSC, serving adults with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, Soshensky has combined a variety of clinical arts theoretical perspectives into a single effective model. Utilizing artistic production, such as recording original music, writing poetry, fine art exhibitions, and public performances, Soshensky’s program evokes creativity from the most primitive and emotional regions of the brain, so that even individuals with extremely damaged cognition, communication, and social ability can surmount these barriers through the arts.

In this program, individuals begin to make the psychosocial shift from disability to ability. In clinical examinations of their songs, poems, visual artwork, as well as numerous personal interviews and written reflections, participants were less likely to regard themselves as disabled, but instead view themselves as active, creative individuals. Deficits in motivation, social integration, and self-awareness were also not evident in the artistic pieces. CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE


Rick was featured in a cover story article in Ulster Publishing's Guide to Mid-Hudson Health Services 2008  - 09 .  This Annual Supplement is included as a special magazine section within newspapers  and  distributed at venues in Woodstock, Kingston, New Paltz and throughout Ulster County New York.















Let the Music Heal Your Soul
"...Fine and performing arts programs help the residents experience their humanity through art..." CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Read what Anthony Salerno, founder of The Northeast Center for Special Care had to say about this piece of journalism featuring Rick Soshensky and the Fine and Performing Arts Department at The Northeast Center:

Rick,

Art is a laser that cuts through the viewer's armor and the artist's shackles.

The attached piece is one of the best written and produced editorial feature articles on the Center. The hard work and sincerity of the successful collaboration between you and Sigrid Heath has resulted in a standout piece of public reportage about our programs, staff and Residents. The depth of your knowledge and the passion you bring to our Neighbors shows in all your work and it is one of the things that makes the Center great. It is notable that this feature article is devoid of any mentions of past negatives; rather, it showcases the work of remarkable staff and remarkable Residents working together to achieve remarkable outcomes. The Center engenders great art.

Please allow me to say again how proud I am of you and all the arts staff at the Center.
Thanks to all for your amazing daily achievements (against great odds).

I am sending this Guide to Mid-Hudson Health Services
to every elected official and policy-maker I know.

Thank you,
A.Salerno



Rick Soshensky on NPR Radio's The Health Show

Recently, the syndicated public radio program, The Health Show, aired a segment entitled: Traumatic Brain Injury - Healing with Creativity. Bob Barett, host of The health Show toured The Northeast Center for Special Care where Rick is currently the Director of Fine & Performing Arts Therapies. Rick was among those interviewed by The Health Show co-host Bob Barrett.

The Health Show is a program produced for public radio stations by WAMC in Albany, NY.  It is heard on 167 radio stations across the United States and Canada. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE HEALTH SHOW WEBSITE AND LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW.



Rick Soshensky on Anything Goes!! Syndicated Radio

Lise Avery, Executive Producer and host of internationally syndicated radio program Anything Goes!! heard about Rick's music therapy work and was so impressed she invited him and co-worker Peter Bass for an on-air interview.

Anything Goes!! with Lise Avery is broadcast by radio stations and webcasters throughout the United States as well as across Taiwan and in Southern Australia. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE ANYTHING GOES!! WEBSITE AND LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW







Therapy Times Adding Music to the Mix; Music therapy
Sweeps Back Into the Hospital Setting                                

Rick on air on WDST Radio
By Bob Stott

After years in the dark – or rather, the vacuum – U.S. healthcare is finally re-acknowledging something which many of the cultures that comprise its make-up have known for decades: Music can have healing properties. CLICK HERE TO READ BOB STOTT'S ENTIRE ARTICLE featuring RICK SOSHENSKY'S WORK