Olive Branch Therapeutic Services

Whether you struggle with anxiety, loneliness, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, or conflict, we strive to reach you, the person. Olive Branch Therapeutic Services offers alternative approaches including music therapy, brain-based interventions, and relational therapy to empower the individual to navigate through whatever adversity they are experiencing. Our therapist aims to provide tangible and functional tools and opportunities for practice and implementation to create peace within your relationships and your daily living. Olive Branch utilizes music therapy techniques that offer a non-threatening and novel approach when no other modality seems to work. Music interventions utilized in Olive Branch Therapeutic Services include: Lyric Analysis Songwriting Improvisational music and live music making Active music listening techniques Music facilitating movement or relaxation Processing Psychoeducational interventions Startegies for coping and self-regulation Somatic interventions for regulation and trauma treatment Trauma-Focused Treatment Molly Warren, MM, LPMT, MT-BC, CTP, Licensed Professional Music Therapist and Certified Trauma Professional, received her Masters degree in Music Therapy from Colorado State University. She also has experience working at a flagship residential treatment facility were she was trained in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics and trauma-informed creative arts therapy intervention, specifically working with individuals with trauma and neglect backgrounds. She additionally has experience working in an acute psychiatric facility where she worked with adult, adolescent, and pediatric general mental health populations. Her philosophy is to introduce novel and authentic modalities to best reach the needs of her clients to create a genuine and individualized experience. Music Therapy is a professional health discipline that uses the clinical application of music to facilitate non-musical functional goals. Music therapy treatment techniques encourage positive change in cognitive, physical, social, and psychological skills of individuals. When applied by the trained and licensed therapist, these scientifically-based music therapy techniques can offer a non-threatening and novel approach to the therapeutic process. Music therapy can also expedite the therapeutic process in conjunction with other therapy modalities (i.e. relational therapy, etc.). Music therapists are required to hold a bachelor’s degree in music therapy from one of the 70 approved university programs.Music therapists receive training in music, music theory, psychology, neuroscience, social sciences, human development, special education, and music therapy. A six-month clinical training internship must be completed before taking the national board certification exam that is regulated by the Certification Board for Music Therapists. The credentials of MT-BC (Music Therapist-Board Certified) are earned after passing the exam. Board Certified Music Therapists are required to complete at least 100 continuing education credits or sit for a re-certification exam every five years. Music Therapists in the State of Nevada are required to be licensed music therapists in order to practice. This ensures the safety and the proficient level of treatment deserved of the populations music therapists serve.