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Using Music as Medicine
The Great Lakes Music Company’s mission is to increase access to music therapy, music education, and community music in the NW Indiana area.
The GLMC opened in 2016 providing in-home and facility-based music therapy services to individuals and groups. We are proud to be an Indiana Medicaid Waiver-approved provider for the Family Supports Waiver (FSW) and Community Integration Habilitation (CIH) Waiver. We also accept clients who use the ESA program (Indiana Education Scholarship Account) .
The GLMC has multiple active community contracts in hospices, memory care facilities, and schools. We are currently partners with the following organizations:
- Hospice of the Calumet Area
- Avalon Springs Memory Care (Valparaiso)
- Golden Hope Ministries
- Porter County First Things First
- NWI Symphony
- Indiana Education Scholarship Account
The GLMC specializes in treatment for individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury, physical rehabilitation, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and others. We work with clients across the lifespan for all abilities and we are dedicated to providing the highest quality services. All the GLMC staff are Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC), by the Certification Board for Music Therapists, and maintain those credentials by participating in continuing education.
The GLMC is a family-owned business proudly located in Northwest Indiana.
Owner/Clinician
Jordy Blitz Novak, MM, MT-BC, NMT
Jordy Blitz Novak is the founder and owner of The Great Lakes Music Company. She has been a Board-Certified Music Therapist since February 2012. She completed her undergraduate degree in Music Therapy in 2011 from Illinois State University and completed her Master of Music in Music Therapy from Western Michigan University in 2016. Jordy earned her designation as a Neurological Music Therapist in 2022. Jordy is the current Director of Music Therapy at Valparaiso University.
Jordy has been a practicing music therapist since 2012, specializing in autism and intellectual disabilities. Jordy created The GLMC to serve the NWI community and provide an exceptional workplace for music therapists. To reach Jordy directly, email jnovak@theglmc.com.