Music Therapy Sessions

These 50 minute sessions are a soft place for all the parts of you to land. We’ll explore your emotional landscape and your relationship to the world around you through music therapy techniques. There is never an expectation for you to sing or perform.

This is for you if you:

have ever felt like words were caught in your throat

want to better connect with your emotions and body

have trouble speaking up or standing up for yourself

don’t like the sound of your own voice

feel like traditional talk therapy isn’t enough anymore

are curious about connecting to your innate creativity

What does a session look like?

Each music therapy session is different; however, I’ve noticed a structure emerge with most of my clients. We might start by checking in on the here and now - what are you noticing? What’s feeling present for you? Depending on your wants and needs for the session, we may explore some different areas. We may stay in talk for the majority of the session. We can also listen to music together and talk about it, write some lyrics, improvise with the voice, explore a guided meditation, doodle or make art while humming, write music, and so much more.

Let’s explore an example

This is a completely made-up scenario. Say client M comes in saying, “Everything is fine on the surface, like nothing is going wrong in my life. But I just feel awful all the time. Shouldn’t I be happier?” We might explore some of these feelings through talk, and then I might suggest we look at a song called Circle The Drain by Soccer Mommy. We listen to the song together and explore: What are you noticing in your body after we’ve listened to the song? What stands out to you about these lyrics? What are your general feelings towards the song? The song itself has a few sections: a verse, pre-chorus, chorus, and refrain. We may explore what it’s like for M to write their own version of the verse, which is typically a storytelling part of a song. This allows M to put themselves into the song. After collaboratively writing, I might sing the song back to them with their new lyrics, and we see what it’s like for M to hear this being played back. This session likely won’t make M feel happy, but it might invite them to pay attention to all the complex feelings in their life, understand the expectations they’re experiencing, and feel a little less alone.

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Are you ready to connect?

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