To provide therapeutic services to allow individuals to reach their health and wellness goals.
Music Therapy
Healing through Music.
Music therapy can be utilized to treat a variety of conditions, physical, mental, or both. A board-certified music therapist is professionally trained to work with many populations. A board-certified music therapist has experience with clients across the lifespan. They work in rehabilitation facilities, forensic settings, psychiatric facilities, schools, hospitals, long-term care facilities, private practice, and more. Music therapists are trained to treat clients with substance abuse problems, physical rehabilitation, brain injuries, behavioral, neurological conditions, and mental health problems.
The American Music Therapy Association describes music therapy “as the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.” With its rich history and almost universal reach, music can be an effective tool for treating the whole person, both physiologically and psychologically
The History of Music Therapy
In the United States, music therapy has been an established health profession since 1941 (American Music Therapy Association). However, the idea that music could be used to aid in physical and psychological healing has been around since the ancient Greeks, where, in this early civilization, music was seen by philosophers as a healing medium, Hippocrates, the father of modern-day clinical medicine believed that healing the soul through music also healed the body, he prescribed specific music applications for certain diseases.