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Carly S. Cheriff is a board-certified music therapist who relocated to southern Maine from New York. While in New York, Carly taught music at a self-contained school for students with disabilities and pursued her degree in Music Therapy at New York University. She holds a master’s degree in Special Education in addition to her master’s degree in Music Therapy.

Carly has experience working with groups and individuals of varying ages, abilities, and backgrounds across a wide range of settings, including homes, schools, hospitals, early childhood programs, group homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, adult day programs, and more.

As a strong advocate of the neurodiversity movement, Carly works from a humanistic, strengths-based perspective. She believes deeply in meeting individuals where they are and honoring each person’s unique ways of being, communicating, and engaging with the world.

Southern Maine Music Therapy is a division of Headwaters Wellness. SoME Music Therapy provides services for children, adolescents, and young adults with mental health concerns, as well as pregnant women and families for labor and delivery. Services are provided at the outpatient wellness center in Kennebunk, in addition to residential treatment centers, public schools, and labor and delivery units in York & Cumberland counties.

Southern Maine Music Therapy was founded in 2016 by Rachel Wells, a board certified music therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor with over 12 years of experience.

Be Your Note Music Therapy Services is a private practice in Arundel owned by Patricia Mulholland. Patricia has interest and expertise in working with patients with neurologic conditions such as brain injury, stroke and cerebral palsy, and with the aging population, including individuals struggling with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Another primary practice area is working with women using voice as a therapeutic modality. ​

Patricia trained at Berklee College of Music, where she learned that music therapy is “about connection, about relieving the isolation that various forms of illness and debilitation can bring” (Professor Julie Zigo). In her practice, she witnesses the power of music to lift ability from a life often more defined by disability. Patricia is passionate about establishing music therapy in Maine and frequently presents at conferences & organizations to educate and advocate for the profession.

Corinne Waters is a LCPC-C and Board Certified Music Therapist who provides both clinical process groups and therapeutic programming through expressive arts and music therapy for patients at Southern Maine Healthcare Behavioral Health Unit in Sanford, ME. 

Southern Maine Healthcare's inpatient Behavioral Health Unit in Sanford is a 40 bed, locked unit that provides a 24 hour treatment, caring for adults 18-95 in acute psychiatric crisis. The multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals plan and work together with the patient to provide psychiatric care, medical treatment, support, referral for follow-up care, and opportunities for learning and emotional growth. Programming on the mental health unit includes clinical groups on CBT, DBT, psychoeducation, music therapy, skill-building, and recreational activities.