What is
Music Therapy?
The American Music Therapy Association defines music therapy as, “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional (MT-BC) who has completed an approved music therapy program.” In addition, to completing an approved music therapy program, individuals can sit for the national examination by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) to earn their Music Therapist Board Certified (MT-BC) credentials.
Music Therapy accommodates a wide range of human experiences and needs...
Whether it be in a hospital, school, in/outpatient clinic, care homes, or via telehealth, Music Therapy can accommodate a variety of needs such as memory care, rehabilitation, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, end-of-life, pain management, and IEP/IP goals, just to name a few.
Music Therapy offers reciprocity of sharing in and contributing...
to a unique musical experience together. Making music with people, giving them the opportunity to share their creativity, their identity, self expression, communication, joys, and to work through life's challenges through the therapeutic relationship.
Music Therapy makes music more attainable...
through transforming music experiences that happen outside of the therapy (music lessons, musical theater, karaoke, rock band, recording, composing, etc) into powerful interventions; that not only restore music back to the people we work with, but simultaneously restore basic human rights (confidence, love, belonging, identity, communication, independence) that may have been lost or suppressed due to a variety of challenges encountered in their lives.