About the Author

Kathy Lindberg is a board-certified music therapist in Ohio. She received her BA in Music Therapy from The College of Wooster, in Wooster, OH and completed her clinical internship training at Forbes Health Center in Pittsburgh, PA. During that time she worked with older adults, psychiatric children and adults, and those who were terminally ill.

Kathy began practicing music therapy in 1991. Over the next 10 years she worked to help a wide variety of individuals better themselves and their lives through music. In 1997, Kathy also started an online gift company which she built and sold in 2004. Her years in the retail gift industry afforded her the opportunity to learn a great deal about starting and running a successful small business. She took this knowledge and applied it when returning to her music therapy practice, founding Melisma Music Therapy Services in 2008.

"I am in the unique position of being a trained creative arts therapist and having the working knowledge and understanding about starting and building a successful business. I want to help other creative arts therapists to build their own successful practices and that is why I wrote Prelude to Coda: How to Build a Successful Creative Arts Therapy Practice."