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Kimberly Sena Moore
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Music therapist, academic, legislative advocate, lifelong learner, Mom.
Trying to remember the last time I saw one of these!

(I wonder if it works…)
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today is my son’s birthday and he’s a freshman in college and I don’t remember a single parent who transitioned their kids out of the house (college or otherwise) mentioning how weird that first birthday away from home would feel.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I was today years old when I figured out how to use this little kitchen contraption.

(I will never avoid using fresh thyme again!)
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
How have I gone this long and not realized that Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” is a three chord song?!

#musictherapy
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My son’s the oldest. He’s a freshman in college and his birthday is soon. I gotta say—it feels so odd to be planning the presents I’ll be MAILING to him 😳

I knew there’d be a lot of “firsts” this year, but that’s one I wasn’t expecting…

#parenting #parentingsky
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Mama-daughter movie night tonight. Gave 16 yo the choice of Annie’s box Mac n cheese and popcorn.

Daughter: Why not both?

That’s my girl! 👑
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
What a pleasure to join Kentucky music therapists Chris Millet & Elliott Buckner at the State Capitol in Frankfurt. We testified during a meeting of the Interim Comm on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations in support of creating a #musictherapy license in the state.

Short 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
There is a very real (and difficult) funding issue happening in Florida right now impacting music therapists and the clients (mostly children) we serve.

This post by Stephen Choate that clearly outlines the issue: musicmed.org/blog/the-fut...

Y’all…policy matters!

#musictherapy
The Future of Music Therapy in Florida
Florida music therapists face major Medicaid changes after MTM’s contract ends—delays, rate cuts, and a system-wide restructuring.
musicmed.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Traveling today and made it a point to thank all those @tsa.gov workers at RSW who showed up despite the ongoing #governmentshutdown.

It was a calm and smooth experience today 😌
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Kimberly Sena Moore
Our study about reminiscence bump(s) in personally meaningful music:

Your life’s greatest hits? A global study finds they trace back to our teens. Timing changes w/ age & gender: as we age, men stick to old favourites, women embrace newer tunes! 1/2

Read: t.ly/u2qvJ

#MusicScience #MusicPsychology
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Interesting new study exploring patterns and trends in published research on music & emotion regulation.

Short take—it’s developed tremendous over the decades and remains of continued scholarly interest 🤩

Check it out: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

#musictherapy #musicscience #emotionregulation
Frontiers | Music-based emotion regulation: a bibliometric systematic review (2000–2024)
BackgroundMusic Emotion Regulation (MER) research has emerged as a significant field in mental health intervention, yet a comprehensive bibliometric analysis...
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dolphin came to PLAY! 🐬😍

#dolphin #beachday
October 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Grading an assignment here and one of my favorite errors students make is writing “illicit” when in fact they mean “elicit”:

The emotions tied to the music would not illicit the same response in every person.

I chuckle every time…

#academicsky
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I just finished my mandatory annual faculty training modules.

Before the deadline.

It took 3 hours.

Please clap.

#academicsky
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Going through these mandatory annual training modules. Current module covers ethics and compliance, and I just read that “you can be ethical while not being compliant.”

A timely reminder as a teacher in Florida, USA.

#academicsky
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Digging the clouds and lighting from tonight’s sunset 😌

#photography #sunset
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Well this was a fun email to get!

One of my recent articles published in Frontiers in Neuroscience just reached a new impact milestone of 500+ downloads and 2,000+ views!

Here’s the link if you’d like to read it:

www.frontiersin.org/article/1568...

#musictherapy #musicscience #academicsky
Frontiers | A theory of intervention model to define the essential characteristics of music to support emotion regulation development in early childhood
Recent work in the area of health intervention development has emphasized the need to articulate a theory of intervention. This begins with the development o...
www.frontiersin.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Heading out for a little mother-daughter day trip to Orlando for a concert tonight 🤩

(The twinning was accidental 🙃)
September 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This weekend I had the opportunity to follow through on an invitation to present about music, music therapy, and rehabilitation at the annual Florida Physical Therapy Association (FLPTA) conference in Orlando.

(Short 🧵 below)

#musictherapy #musicscience #rehabilitation #academicsky
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some potentially helpful transfers for us music therapists!

#musictherapy
Yes! Our scoping review found music evoked the same thing for health and wellbeing 👇 🎵 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#musicscience
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Tis the season! Always appreciate this part of south FL summer weather, esp the sneak peeks like this.

#photography #rainbow
September 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This may be the first music therapy research article I’ve seen that explores how MT, in collaboration with speech therapy, can help improve auditory processing difficulties in military personnel.

What an important program!

Check it out: doi.org/10.3389/fneu...

#musictherapy #musicscience
Frontiers | Auditory cognition lab: a music therapy and speech-language pathology co-treatment for military-connected populations with auditory and cognitive impairment
Military personnel are particularly at risk for auditory processing difficulties as their training, occupational, and combat experiences increase the likelih...
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Check out this thoughtful collection of impactful music therapy research published in the JMT & MTP. This list was curated by a team of music therapists to celebrate the 75th anniversary of AMTA.

Link: academic.oup.com/jmt/pages/am...

#musictherapy #musicscience
Virtual Collection in Honor of American Music Therapy Association’s 75th Anniversary
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), a virtual issue of articles from AMTA’s journals, the Journal of Music
academic.oup.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Had a wonderful time attending and presenting at the International Society for Early Intervention (ISEI) conference in Lisbon this week!

This was my first ISEI conference and I was struck by…

#isei2025 #musictherapy
September 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Interesting article exploring neurological mechanisms underlying music and breath work and its role in influencing psychological distress.

#musictherapy #musicscience

doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Neurobiological substrates of altered states of consciousness induced by high ventilation breathwork accompanied by music
The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjec...
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM