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In 2003, she started providing behavior management services. She now supervises the Behavior Services & Therapy team and handles all the management functions required to own and operate a business. Kelly is a Registered Behavioral Consultant through the Indiana Association of Behavioral Consultants (IN ABC). Kelly has held board positions with IN ABC for several years and served as the President from 2011 until 2017. Additionally, she is a retired major in the Air Force Reserves and spent 24 years working as a public affairs (relations) journeyman and officer while on active duty and in the Reserves. She was named the 434th Air Refueling Wing Officer of the Year — 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/1633614381362-UIMNLEDGZ7TAG8ZTEFN5/Lori.jpeg Leadership & Support Staff - Director of Quality and Behavioral Supports 2008 Best Behavioral Consultant, IN-ABC Lori S., MA, RBC Lori started working in the MR/DD field in 2003. 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See you next week!” Client to music therapy intern: “I kneel to you as a sign of friendship.” Music therapist to client: “You’re Wild!” Client: “I was born wild!” Music therapist to client: “What size shirt do you wear?” Client: “A disco size!” https://www.michianabst.com/showcase daily 0.75 2024-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/1656093050641-DP42S1GO7NN1U5N4X3BE/Marisaa.jpg Showcase https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/1658165637796-0LSU60Z55HC301MM3TWA/aspieasp3.png Showcase https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/1660150728410-1TP11OQ0HSIASHP6YIWT/joshua-Z.jpg Showcase https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/eebeb06b-da86-4232-8948-57100a36ad55/bff_bakery4.jpg Showcase https://www.michianabst.com/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://www.michianabst.com/psychservices daily 0.75 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/c6097b4f-c15e-41c5-9b1f-498be4780401/Brown%2C+Jenny_edited.jpg Psychiatric Services - Medication Management https://www.michianabst.com/psychiatricservices-referral daily 0.75 2024-08-30 https://www.michianabst.com/shadow-form daily 0.75 2024-07-09 https://www.michianabst.com/services daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://www.michianabst.com/services/outpatienttherapy monthly 0.5 2024-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/17c0b0f5-ee31-432e-8a75-b0559cb34a16/unsplash-image-W3Jl3jREpDY.jpg Services - Outpatient Therapy - How does "talk" therapy help? With all clients, but particularly with children and families, therapy often helps to “normalize” events that can seem overwhelming. It also provides alternatives to repeating old patterns of thinking and acting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/fbd82503-f4b0-4f8e-a590-c90f9663d695/unsplash-image-epBIrtdg2Hk.jpg Services - Outpatient Therapy - Working together to overcome life's hurdles At Behavior Services & Therapy we are prepared to help you. People can have a host of different mental health challenges ranging from very severe mood and behavioral disorders to changes in life circumstances. Problems come in many different forms but all tend to have common variables of distress with various levels of impact on life functioning. We're here to help with everything from ADHD to Autism Spectrum Disorder to family conflicts to trauma and sexual abuse. https://www.michianabst.com/services/psychservices1 monthly 0.5 2024-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/d635859b-d72f-41c9-b8de-0d218d58733b/psychMed2.jpg Services - Psychiatric Services - Medication Management - HOW DO PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS HELP? Multiple studies show that the combination of both therapy and medications perform significantly better than therapy alone to manage mental health. 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One of the main goals of RT is to reduce or eliminate effects of an individual's disability while becoming more independent. A therapist works towards this goal by introducing new leisure skills such as using community resources, initiating social interaction, discovering new interests, self-awareness to health, and much more depending on what the individual's current needs are. Rec Therapy happens in group and one-on-one settings, in a wide variety of environments. 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Music Therapy is much more than music appreciation and it is not music lessons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61167b8663148b6e8a49638d/3035af0f-aff3-41f5-8122-69a52fee7155/Clients+even+get+their+own+equipment+to+rock+out+%281%29.jpg Services - Music Therapy - Proven to boost an individual’s overall confidence Individuals do not have to have any instrument-playing ability to benefit from music therapy. Instruments, props and adaptive devices are used to help individuals increase communication and independence. Music therapy assists individuals with improving their auditory processing and reducing maladaptive, or negative, behaviors.