From improving our emotions and communication skills to enhancing physical health and creating community, singing is a powerful practice that nourishes both mind and body and helps us to cope with life’s challenges.
Mental Health Articles
Bridging the Gap: The Essential Need for Online Music Therapy
Over the last four years we have learned a lot about providing online music therapy—for individual and group sessions. It wasn't easy at the beginning. How do you share a predominantly active, audibly focused therapy online and still see the necessary impact? The...
How Music Therapists Are Working with Grief, Trauma, and Significant Loss
While our hearts yearn to embrace the world with unwavering optimism and peace, the stark realities we face make it challenging. People we deeply care about, along with countless others globally, grapple with the harrowing effects of trauma, wars, and profound...
Music Therapy & Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
In light of all of the above, it is evident that music has the power to calm the mind and relieve anxiety.
Music Therapy at AHS
JB Music Therapy is a team of certified Music Therapists (MTAs) who collaborate, design and personalize therapy plans with their clients that will foster desired change to boost mood, decrease stress, improve speech or movement after injury, increase focus, develop...
Heartbreak Songs
The dictionary definition of heartbreak describes it as: crushing grief, anguish, or distress. Most of us are no stranger to heartbreak; and will travel through different experiences of it in our lifetimes. While there is no catch-all solution for heartbreak, music is...
Kindness in Care
Over the course of my career as a certified music therapist, I have worked in hospitals, privatevhomes, long-term care facilities, group homes and schools. I and my colleagues bear witness to many of life’s most profound moments. Years ago I began writing about some...
Staying Connected: Music Reduces Isolation
Music creates a point of entry, a point of connection that can move us from our isolation to a greater relationship.