The Nizhoni Music & Wellness Studio uses music, and its many holistic aspects, to assist clients in developing, rehabilitating, and maintaining optimal health, functioning, and well-being throughout the course of life.
Antoinette Neff is a board-certified music therapist, holding a bachelors in music education with emphasis in music therapy from Southwestern Oklahoma State University since 1990.
Neff has received specialized training in Music Therapy Assisted Childbirth, Neurologic Music Therapy, DIR/Floortime, Musikgarten, Music Together, Kindermusik, Roots of Rhythm, and Sprouting Melodies.
Antoinette has presented to the Gallup McKinley County Schools, University of New Mexico-Gallup, Navajo Nation Head Starts, Parents as Teachers, Southwest Consortium of Indian Head Start Programs, the Western Health Foundation’s Developing the Whole Child Conference, Western New Mexico University-Gallup, the Bureau of Indian Education, the Southwestern Region of the American Music Therapy Association, and the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), in addition to many local chapters of professional and service organizations in the Four Corners area.
She has served as the AMTA's Government Relations Representative for Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma; and, is a Past President of the Southwestern Region of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). Neff has served on the Examination Committee of the Certification Board for Music Therapists.
She is a member of the World Federation of Music Therapists and the Music Teachers National Association.