Providers - Katie Opher (Music Therapy, Music Group Leader, Yoga, Director of Day Camps)
Katie Opher is The Center on Central’s Program Manager and Director of Day Camps, as well as being a provider of Music, Music Therapy and Yoga. Katie is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and Master’s Level Board Certified music therapist (MT-BC) and has been in practice for over 20 years. Katie earned her Master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapy from Hahnemann University (now part of Drexel University, where she serves as an adjunct faculty member).
Katie is adept at integrating verbal processing within the arts and focusing on purposeful use of the arts to address therapeutic goals. She believes that the verbal processing is essential to having the arts experience relate to real life and to making progress within therapy.
Katie brings her musical expertise into her therapy practice by using live music; she specializes in meeting her clients in their areas of strength, in order to address whatever issues they need to work on and goals they seek to reach. Katie has worked varying populations which include: infants in the NICU, toddlers in mommy and me music groups, non-verbal students on the autism spectrum, out-patient pediatric cancer patients, brain injured teens and adults in rehabilitation, normal and emotionally disturbed adolescents, moms-to-be and new mothers, normal adults (using music to decrease anxiety and work to alleviate depression), and seniors in assisted living and Alzheimer’s units.
In 2000, Katie founded a non-profit, called Creative Arts for Everyone®, and has administered a grant from the Department of Human Services in the City of Philadelphia for a total of 15 years, managing and supervising a groundbreaking program which provides Creative Arts Therapy services in the supervised visitation program in the Family Court of Philadelphia.
Katie is also a certified Yoga Instructor, having completed her Yoga teacher training in June 2008 (RYT200), and is a certified ChildLight Yoga instructor. She has introduced many of her music therapy clients and music groups to yoga, and looks forward to the opportunity to continue to make yoga accessible to clients at The Center on Central.
Please click on this link to be directed to Holiday/In-Service Day Creative Arts Camps
Mondays 9:45am-10:45am Yoga for beginners (adult) (Room GR)
Mondays 12:10pm-12:55pm Lunchtime Yoga (session 1) (Room GR)
Mondays 1:00pm-1:45pm Lunchtime Yoga (session 2) (Room GR)
Mondays 6:00pm-7:00pm Music Therapy Social Skills group - for children in grades 3-5 (Room 2-M)
Tuesdays 4:30pm-5:30pm Music Therapy Social Skills group - for children in grades K-3 (Room 2-M)
Tuesdays 6:00pm-6:45pm Everybody Play…Music! group (ages 3-6) (Room 2-M)
Tuesdays 7:00pm-8:00pm Music Therapy - Social Skills group for grades 6-8 (Room 2-M)
Thursdays 9:45am-10:45am Yoga for beginners (adult) (Room GR)
Fridays 9:30am-10:00am Mommy (or caregiver) and Me Music group (age infant-18 months old) (Room 2-M)
Fridays 10:15am-11:00am Mommy (or caregiver) and Me Music group (age 2-5) (Room 2-M)
Saturdays 9:00am-9:30am Music Therapy Social Skills group (ages 2-4) (Room 2-M)
Saturdays 9:35am-10:05am Mommy (or caregiver) and Me Music group (age infant-18 months old) (Room 2-M)
Saturdays 10:15am-11:00am Mommy (or caregiver) and Me Music group (age 2-5) (Room 2-M)
Saturdays 11:15am-11:45am Everybody Play…Music! Therapy group - for children in grades K-5 (Room 2-M)
Saturdays 12:00pm-1:00pm Music Therapy Social Skills group - for children in grades 3-5 (Room 2-M)
