Music Therapy

Music, expression, and connection.

Music therapy offers a supportive space to explore, express and reflect through music. Guided by a trained music therapist, sessions use music experiences to support personal exploration, emotional expression and meaningful connection. Whether you engage through listening, creating or responding to music, the process is shaped around your individual needs, interests and goals.

What is Music Therapy?

Music therapy is a therapeutic process that uses music to explore thoughts, feelings and experiences. In a supportive relationship with a music therapist, music can offer different ways to communicate, express emotions and connect with yourself and others.

Unlike music lessons, music therapy is not focused on musical performance or developing technical skills. There is no expectation of musical ability or previous experience. Instead, music becomes a means of exploration, expression and reflection within a therapeutic space.

Music in the Therapeutic Process

Engage with music to support relaxation, focus, and emotional processing.

Listening

Make music, with or without an instrument, as a way to express and explore.

Creating

Consider the meaning and experience of music in a supportive therapeutic space.

Reflecting

Who Can Benefit

Adults • Children • Adolescents • Young Adults

15-Minute Free Consultation

SarahRose Black, clinic director at Whole Note Psychotherapy in Toronto playing a singing bowl as part of her music therapy practice.