🎼Kate O'Brien, M.M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

Exeter, Nh, Us

Exeter, New Hampshire, United States

Exeter, Nh

New Hampshire, United States

Online - International

Doctors are taught, "if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." I am a zebra: a person with a medical condition(s) so under-diagnosed, we often have to educate our own doctors about them. And I help new zebras navigate their new world - most importantly, with the VALIDATION they have been deprived of, and the social and educational support they have been denied. I help people who have been newly diagnosed, or who are beginning the diagnosis process, with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and/or Chiari Malformation. Most new patients have been misdiagnosed and (severely) medically mistreated for decades before they arrive at these correct diagnoses, often by accident. I have no formal medical training, and I do not offer medical advice beyond helping patients find resources. However, I am a very well-educated patient who researched and learned enough to self-diagnose (and then receive confirmations from a highly qualified geneticist and world-renowned neurosurgeon) after a childhood of injuries followed by an agonizing adulthood - including one single 25-year-long headache. I refer these new patients to medically reputable research materials, help them find non-medicinal, additional, effective pain relief techniques to augment a typically complicated medical regimen; help them map out their new team of medical specialists (neurologists, orthopedists, rheumatologists, ENTs, cardiologists, etc.), and advise them on finding a primary care physician who can effectively coordinate the team. I keep in close contact with these people - my dazzle - online, as we come together from all over the world. As my "baby zebras" grow and learn about their condition(s), treatments, and often completely new and unexpected lives, I stay close to them to answer questions, discuss new theories (like the anecdotal possible link to autism that the majority of us are living with), and tell them, as often as I can, the most important words they will ever need to hear:"I believe you."

I offer a wide range of consulting and educational services, including music school start-up consulting, individual music instruction on brass and woodwind instruments, and group in-service and conference presentations on teaching music to students with dyslexia.

Durham, Nh; Madison, Appleton & Oshkosh, Wi; Louisville, Ky; Yorktown, Va; Exeter, Nh

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

Berlin, Wisconsin, United States

B.M.E., Music Education, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: If it made music, I was probably in it. Attending UNH to become a music teacher was the most positive, pivotal.

M.M.Ed., Music Education, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude In 3 Semesters

Activities and Societies: Every possible music ensemble!

Diplomate, Music Performance (Brass Quintet), A

I spent the summer between high school and college studying at the world-renowned, intense, and incredibly selective Empire Brass Quintet.

Diploma, Music Teacher Education

Activities and Societies: Every possible music group available!

M.M.Ed., Music Educatiom

Master Of Music Education - M.M.Ed., Instrumental Music Education, 4.0

Activities and Societies: ALL the music groups. All of them.