Maggie Johnson, MT-BC, Oregon Licensed Music Therapist | Music Therapy Director
Maggie seeks to foster a greater quality of life for clients by tapping into the inherent drive in each of us to experience the joy and benefits of the art of music. Her clinical focus is on relational-based music therapy for groups and individuals experiencing isolation or marginalization due to health and/or societal barriers. Sessions with Maggie are guided by each person or group’s unique music, what brings comfort and support, and what goals they aim to achieve.
She has completed training in Neurologic Music Therapy, Sprouting Melodies™ early childhood development, and community music therapy. She is trained to administer the Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Variants (IMCAP-ND), and has started training in DIR-Floortime for music therapists—a neurodevelopmental play therapy model. Maggie has worked in a variety of therapy contexts from early childhood music therapy, adolescents, adults, to hospice care, including music therapy for communities, families, and individuals.
Music-based service in assisted living, foster care, schools, and prisons, as part of her lifelong journey in music, inspired Maggie to obtain a bachelor’s in music composition and performance from Grinnell College followed by a Bachelor of Music Therapy from Marylhurst University.
Maggie is the former president of the Oregon Association for Music Therapy and has served as a lead music therapist for many of Earthtones Northwest’s community arts projects in partnership with organizations such as The Oregon Symphony, The Alzheimer’s Association: Oregon Chapter, and Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon, and The Portland Columbia Symphony. She consults and presents locally and nationally on a range of music therapy topics.
As a musician on voice, guitar, piano, flute, hand percussion, and electric bass; she has performed music from a range of genres including folk, pop, rock, jazz, blues, soul, modern gospel, Western classical, Latin American, country, and more. Maggie’s personal musical sensibilities are inspired by a deep love of Latinx art-pop, experimental/minimalist classical, r&b, soul, & minimalist folk.