Music psychotherapy is a dynamic approach to mental health treatment that draws upon a combination of music therapy and counseling/psychotherapy approaches.

My approach to music psychotherapy is culture-centered, and utilize your music preferences and interests to explore and develop new insights about past experiences, cultivate new perspectives and points of view about the present, and to practice new and adaptive ways to cope with life stressors.

Music psychotherapy can involve music in the following:

Music listening and reflection
Lyric analysis
Singing
Guitar or instrument playing
Songwriting or composition
Guided imagery through music

Over the last decade, I have continued to find the combination of counseling/psychotherapy and music therapy to be a powerful way to make sense of a chaotic world, develop creative and empowered approaches to stress management and coping, and cultivate meaning and purpose.