Nicole Tippets Forester

Nicole is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, with her BA degree from Utah State University 2002.  She completed her internship at Bethany Children's Home in Pennsylvania, working in foster care, short-term treatment, and an emergency shelter with children and adolescents. Shortly after, she worked for one year as a sub-contracted music therapist for Sonata Incorporated in Maryland. While employed there, she worked in Way Station and Turning Point, two clubhouse facilities with adults dealing with mental illness. She also worked with children, adolescent, and adults with Autism and other developmental disabilities. Additionally, Nicole provided educational inservices

for the community, and worked with local education boards

to include music therapy on Individual Education Plans (IEP)

and Individual Service Plans (ISP).

Afterward, Nicole worked as the Director of the Music Therapy Program in Salt Lake City at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute. She was responsible for the acute inpatient units, providing group and
individual music therapy services to adults dealing with trauma and/or chronic mental illness.

Finally, Nicole completed her Master of Science Degree in Counseling in 2007. She is currently working as a music therapist/counselor at Project Reality in Salt Lake City, an outpatient clinic for

adults dealing with opiate addiction.

Professional affiliations include membership in the American Music Therapy Association and Utah Association of Music Therapists, and

a member of the Utah Counseling Association.

For information regarding music therapy

please contact Nicole

nicoletippets@hotmail.com

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