What is Live Therapeutic Music?

Live Therapeutic Music can bring comfort and healing to individuals is hospice, skilled nursing facilities and hospitals. Patients can be any age with any symptom including emergency and intensive care, pre- and post-op, obstetrics and neo-natal, and cardiac and cancer care (to name just a few).

What does it look like to receive live acoustic therapeutic music?
You, the patient, are in charge: 
1. We knock on the door: “Would you like to hear some live acoustic music now?” 
2. You relax and simply receive. It’s OK to lie down…close your eyes if you wish. Let the music do the work. 
3. You decide when are we through. 
Sessions average 30-40 minutes.  It’s likely you will fall peacefully asleep.

What are the benefits of receiving live acoustic therapeutic music?
Relaxation. Sleep. Healing.  Therapeutic Music is all about you. Research shows it can bring comfort and healing by reducing blood pressure and the perception of pain, stabilizing heart rate and breathing. calming anxiety, reducing fear and stress hormones, enhancing neurological functions, and promoting relaxation and sleep.

Are you a Music Therapist?
No. I'm a Certified Music Practitioner (CMP) A graduate of the Music for Healing and Transitions Program, the only not for profit and the oldest program accredited by the National Standards Board of Therapeutic Musicians.  
A Certified Music Practitioner uses ONLY LIVE acoustic music, adapting and improvising to serve the immediate and often changing needs of you, the patient.  We have no expectations of you;  you are passive and may even fall asleep;  it's possible you may only see me once. 

A good example  of the difference is to think about is working with a physical therapist  vs. receiving a therapeutic massage. A physical therapist works with you and you are required to do the work (How many reps? How many times a week? For how long? ) Now think about receiving a therapeutic massage: You enter a quiet and peaceful place.  You lie down on a table. You may even fall asleep if you relax and let the certified massage therapist do the work.

How much does Live Therapeutic Music cost?
When  I work with hospitals and hospice, live therapeutic music is usually free for the patient because it is covered by Medicare or other insurance. If you wish to receive or give the gift of live therapeutic music in your own home, please contact me for details. I would be honored to serve you with this form of healing.