At Lighthouse Music Therapy we are committed to providing high-quality music therapy services to individuals and groups within facilities and the community. We believe that music therapy is an integral part of holistic healthcare.
About Music Therapy
Music therapy is a discipline in which credentialed professionals 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.
(Canadian Association of Music Therapists, June 2016)
Music therapy uses music and musical elements to help clients to reach non-musical goals. Music therapy can be used in individual or group settings.
Music therapists accredited (MTA) have a minimum bachelors degree from a university recognized by the Canadian Association of Music Therapists, have completed a 1000-hour internship, and have passed a board-certified examination.
Many different interventions can be used in music therapy including:
vocalizing
singing
playing instruments
songwriting
lyric analysis
drumming
relaxation to music
All of these interventions are used to work on non-musical goals such as communication, self-expression, physical goals and much more.
No musical experience is necessary to participate in music therapy.