What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is a form of psychotherapeutic treatment, provided by fully accredited
professionals, utilising the healing properties of music to help lift the mood and improve
overall well-being. Music Therapy can either be a passive, or active intervention. It can involve
listening to and responding to music, or actively participating in: playing instruments,
making music, writing songs, singing, dancing, or learning music theory.
Music Therapy is a form of psychotherapeutic
treatment, provided by fully accredited
professionals, utilising the healing
properties of music to help lift the mood
and improve overall well-being.
Music Therapy can either be a passive,
or active intervention. It can involve listening
to and responding to music, or actively
participating in: playing instruments,
making music, writing songs, singing,
dancing, or learning music theory.
‘Music is therapy and has always been so’
Yehudi Menuhin
Establish Your Goals
To begin with, you will be required to sit down with a music therapist, to identify what you want
to achieve from your Music Therapy classes. For example, if you’re experiencing anxiety, or depression,
you may hope to use music to naturally improve your mood and overall sense of well-being.
Depending on your mental capacity, this process may take time, but there’s no rush.
To begin with, you will be required to sit down
with a music therapist, to identify what you want
to achieve from your Music Therapy classes.
For example, if you’re experiencing anxiety,
or depression, you may hope to use music
to naturally improve your mood and overall
sense of well-being. Depending on your
mental capacity this process may take time,
but there’s no rush.
“Music can heal the wounds that
medicine cannot touch.”
Debasish Mrihda
Music Therapy Is For All
Anyone can engage in music therapy; you don’t need a background in music to experience
its beneficial effects. This form of treatment is particularly helpful for those who suffer
with depression and anxiety, and may find it difficult to communicate
their experiences through traditional talk therapy.
Anyone can engage in music therapy; you don’t
need a background in music to experience
its beneficial effects. This form of treatment
is particularly helpful for those who suffer
with depression and anxiety, and may find
it difficult to communicate their experiences
through traditional talk therapy.
“When words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Anderson, prominent fairy-tale author