Thanks for allowing us to accompany you through a challenging 2020. On behalf of the team at Piedmont Music Therapy, cheers to 2021! 

Gretchen Benner, Founder/Director of PMT

Connect ~ Play ~ Grow

Making music with individuals of all ages & abilities since 2013.

Enrollment is still open for the virtual group series. They will meet online every other week with the facilitation of a Music Therapist on Staff: Miriam Tart, MMT, MT-BC. More information about the group focus including intake process is available through linked group images:

Virtual Summer Camp opportunities for children & youth of varying abilities will be posted on our website by Monday, January 11, 2021.

Interested in music therapy treatment for yourself, a family member, or contracting services at an area school or facility? Learn about our private practice work with clinic appointments or partnerships in greater Charlotte:

If you have an Instagram account, consider following @piedmontmusictherapy for glimpses during our work days.

Image Description: Picture grid of the top 9 viewed images on Piedmont Music Therapy's Instagram Page from 2020.  Top Row, left to right in order of reactions: Quadrant glimpse of music therapists on staff  shoulders/heads recording a song via AcapellaApp with Ashley Tisdale, MT-BC wearing head phones, Miriam Tart, MMT, MT-BC, Gretchen Benner, LMSW, MT-BC wearing ear buds and Melissa Reinhardt, MSEd, MT-BC (69 reactions), next a selfie shot of excited music therapist Hannah Coleman & Gretchen Benner displaying a plaque of American Music Therapy Association - Southeastern Region's 2020 Service Award at Great Wolf Lodge in Georgia (55 responses) and next a photo of Melissa Reinhardt, MSEd, MT-BC smiling while playing a ukulele beside Kate W., Music Therapy (MT) Intern and Carlie, Music Therapy Student from Queens University of Charlotte during an interactive event for World Rare Disease Day - February 2020 at Trinity Presbyterian Church (45 reactions). Next row is a throwback photo during a regional music therapy conference three years ago of Gretchen Benner smiling while seated holding her baby daughter & strumming a ukulele (45 reactions), next is a photo of Kate W., MT Intern posed holding an acoustic guitar standing in front of a table of percussion instruments at Harmony Recovery Center in Charlotte, NC (44 reactions) and lastly a photo of yellow colored percussion instruments and movement props arranged for St. Patrick's Day theme at PMT's Charlotte Space (44 reactions). The final row contains a picture of piled bucket drums, ukuleles in cases and rolling PMT luggage that are about to be transported to mobile based service site (44 reactions), a picture of a computer screen linking video interview of Melissa Reinhardt, MSEd, MT-BC by Renee O'Neil of CN2 News -Rock Hill, SC (43 reactions) and lastly a photo of colorful instruments (ukuleles and boomwhackers) arranged upon a picnic table in a courtyard of Philips Academy located on the campus of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC (43 reactions).