Julie Hoffer:  

Life Since that rock star thing never really took off (although I still front a local band), I went the more traditional career route back when I thought the whole world was waiting for me open-armed. After high school, I went to NAU and earned a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism and Advertising. I worked in the media in for ten years, but as the business became more and more wretched and my personal goals continued to evolve, I ducked and ran for cover, doing the complete career change. This happened to coincide with my 30th birthday and an epiphone in a Havasupai Falls cave. Since it wasn't very practical to move to Venice and become a singing gondola sailor, I returned to a peasant's existence and completed a B.M. from ASU in Music Therapy. I'm now a board-certified music therapist. (Music therapy, by the way, is an ancillary health care profession along the same spectrum as speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, etc., where music is the foundation for therapeutic interaction, addressing cognitive, psychological/emotional, social, communicative, and physical functioning. I work primari...Expand for more