Jessica Leza is an author, board-certified music therapist (MT-BC), and multimedia artist whose photography and video works have been performed or displayed in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. She holds a Master of Arts in Music Therapy from Texas Woman’s University and a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from the University of North Texas, both in Denton, Texas.
As a therapist, Jessica Leza specializes particularly in providing services for Autistic people, in community mental health (e.g., trauma, eating disorders, and substance use disorder in addition to anxiety and depression), and stroke survivors.
Leza has additional professional experience in e-commerce and marketing and works as a writing consultant for Silicon Valley tech companies.
Currently, Jessica is editing fiction and non-fiction books for publication in 2025.
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E-mail me at JessicaLeza @ Gmail.com
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Call for Works
La Migdalia Press invites neurodivergent and disabled authors, scholars, and therapists to pitch your writing projects and to stay tuned for forthcoming calls for works.
About this Site
This site offers resources for Music Therapists (MTs), MT students, teachers, families, and general music fans.
One of the most popular resources has been the Lead Sheet collection, which includes around 400 pdfs with lyrics and chords transposed to keys easy to play with open chords on the guitar from more than 12 different genres. This resource is periodically updated.
These resources are provided at no cost to you. However, if you would like to help support the costs of hosting this site, you can contribute through the ko-fi link below.
If you would like access to full session plans, additional essays, toolkits, and a variety of other resources starting at only $3/month, check out my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jessicaleza. Note: Because of Apple’s new policies requiring Patreon to change their billing methods, I will be closing my Patreon account in November 2024. However, you are welcome to subscribe and download what you would like until then.