What exactly is Music Therapy?

Music therapy is the use of music to address health goals. 
This can be:

- Listening to music to identify thoughts, feelings, memories

- Analyzing song lyrics to discover personal meaning

- Using music as a healthy way to cope with mental health

- Playing instruments as a healthy emotional outlet

- Therapeutic music lessons, such as guitar lessons to promote self-expression, drum or piano exercises to augment physical rehabilitation, instrument playing to increase bodily awareness/mobility following a traumatic brain injury or cerebrovascular incident (i.e., Stroke), etc.

- Verbal or nonverbal processing, active or receptive engagement with live instruments or recorded music.

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What if I can't sing or play an instrument?

No music training, experience, or instruments are

necessary! All you need is a commitment to participate and

a readiness to discover how music can uncover and

improve your individual strengths and goals.