What is Music Therapy?
Music therapy is a discipline in which credentialed professionals (Music Therapist Accredited) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being. Music therapists use music safely and ethically to address human needs within cognitive, communicative, emotional, musical, physical, social, and spiritual domain.
Music therapists, key to your health. CAMT. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2022, from https://www.musictherapy.ca/
What does a Music Therapist do?
To meet the needs of their clients, Music Therapist’s tailor programs by incorporating two types of interventions: active and receptive.
Active therapy involves both the client and music therapist creating music with instruments, their voices, etc. Receptive therapy involves the music therapist playing music while the client listens and completes other tasks depending on their goals. The goals of these programs are to improve the health and quality of life for clients of all ages and abilities.
Music therapists, key to your health. CAMT. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2022, from https://www.musictherapy.ca/
Check out Beyond the Studio, the Canadian Music Therapy podcast where I was invited to discuss my journey to becoming a Certified Music Therapist and how I plan to recognize Music Therapy Awareness Month in March.
Music Therapy at Set the Tone
Rhonda Hanson, MTA #1342
Our first meeting will be a music therapy assessment. In this initial assessment, I will gather information about social, cognitive, physical, musical and communicative strengths. We will discuss non-musical and musical goals for treatment. We will create a plan to work towards these goals. Our plan will include how often and how long the sessions should be to best achieve our music therapy goals. Options are; weekly/bi-weekly for 30mins, 45mins or 1 hour.
Call me at 782-414-0904 or email using the button below if you would like to discuss further how music therapy may be the right treatment for you or your loved one.