I am a strong believer in the incredible and varied effect music can have on us. I believe in its ability to shape our brains and our selves. It’s for this reason that I started both my children in piano lessons just shy of their fifth birthdays. Music is the vocational passion of my life and it’s what I’m building my career on.
As a music therapist, I have been able to harness music’s influence on our brains and our selves to effect amazing clinical change. It has made the walking patterns of those who’ve had strokes more fluid, faster, and stronger. It’s given me a direct connection to a child in the throes of a “fighting” stress response, allowing me to bring the child back to a calm, regulated state. It’s worked to create a safe space for families in hospitals to grieve and process the loss they were feeling as a result of illness and disease.
Music has many benefits both in general and as clinically facilitated by a trained music therapist. But music is not a cure-all and there are problems it can create…Read more.
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