Music Therapy for Adults

Tweet Music Therapy benefits are not just for children–it works across the lifespan. Many adults experience stress; music can help reduce stress. Listen to some of your favorite music and dance or relax to it. You’ll either be getting exercise by dancing or lowering your heart rate, blood pressure, and the amount of stress hormones [...]

Music Therapy and Teenagers

Tweet At this stage of life, music preferences are shaped by what our friends like and tend to move away from what our parents like. It is important to find out what kind of music your teen is listening to and to talk about the messages in the music. What we listen to throughout the [...]

Music Therapy and the School-aged Child

Tweet At this age, music as therapy is used mostly for children with disabilities. It may be offered in school districts, if the Music Therapy Assessment determines that it is educationally necessary as a related service. In this case, music therapy is provided directly to the child, who is pulled out of the classroom to [...]

Music Therapy and Labor & Delivery

Tweet Music Therapy works across the lifespan, so I’m going to focus a few articles on how it works with the different populations.

Here’s a Quick Way to Adjust Your Attitude

Tweet This morning, I woke up later than usual. This typically would start my day off wrong and potentially ruin my day. But this morning I decided not to judge myself for staying up too late last night or for sleeping later to make up for it. I started my morning routine, and usually I [...]