Music-Integrated Therapy Blog

As this winter begins, I find myself reflecting on the Winter Solstice. This December 21st, the sun will set at around 4:35pmET where I am living on the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg. I have been thinking about how to honour the Winter Solstice; simultaneously the shortest day

This month, I have been reminded of how powerful it can be for clients to experience music that matches some part of their emotional aesthetic environment (Lee, 2006), be it by listening to pre-recorded music, making music themselves, and/or listening to the therapist create the music for them. In this

  I was an undergraduate student in music therapy the first time I encountered Carl Rogers' writing. It was the summer holidays and I was reading "A Way of Being" outdoors in the sunshine. I remember feeling uplifted and affirmed by the ideas in that book: that being with someone

As a therapist, I know I am not alone in asking myself what role I can play in the midst of ongoing global crises. Of course, how we address this question is personal, each of us with many overlapping responses.  A gentle but persistent response I have noticed in

Considering writing a blog post is a humbling experience. What could I offer that might be of service to you, creative and sensitive therapists who are doing their best working with clients during a pandemic that was beyond our imagining two years ago? Perhaps I might offer this gentle