What is music therapy?

Music therapy is a discipline in which credentialed professionals (MTA*) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being. Music therapists use music safely and ethically to address human needs within cognitive, communicative, emotional, musical, physical, social, and spiritual domains.

*Music Therapist Accredited/Musicothérapeute accrédité

 

                                          Canadian Association of Music Therapists

                                          June 2016

 

Services:

Play On Music Therapy currently has three music therapists working in a variety of settings in the community. We offer private sessions and contracts with community partners/facilities.

 

Private individual and group music therapy sessions are offered in client’s homes, group homes and in a private studio space (limited availability).

 

Play On Music Therapy currently contracts with hospitals, long-term care facilities and day programs to provide individual and group music therapy sessions specific to each program.

 

We work with a range of diagnoses such as: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Trisomy 21, Global Developmental Delay, Anxiety, Depression, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Parkinson’s, Oncology, complex medical diagnoses, Palliative care, end of life, etc.  

 

Goals may include: Communication, social skills, social isolation, interpersonal awareness, behaviour regulation, impulse control, motor functioning, skill development, attention span, mental health, etc.

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Please contact us with any questions.