Blog - JB Music Therapy

4 Reasons Music Should be Your Drug of Choice in 2018

Feelings are at the root of every drug (or music) choice we make. Music can boost your mood, dull your pain, increase your focus, and build your brain. Want to know more? ...

4 Ways Music Therapy Can Improve Social Bonds

Although music can certainly be enjoyed alone, when used within a music therapy context it can also help improve feelings of social bonding....

The Problem with Christmas Music and 5 Ways to Fix It

Music’s capacity to trigger memories is one of the core tenants of music therapy. Learn how the right music can help us at Christmas time. ...

3 Ways a Consulting Music Therapist can Boost Workplace Productivity

Music at work can make us feel productive, creative, or inspired, or have the opposite effect. Learn how a music therapist can help. ...

4 Reasons Lost Memories Can Live Again With Music Therapy

How science can guide music therapists to support their client’s desired goals and growth related to memory....

Music to our Ears – 4 ways Music Therapy supports those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Today, individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing are listening and appreciating music as a result of the tremendous advancements in technology....

3 Reasons To Learn to Play Music at Anytime in Your Life

One weekend when I was 8 years old I woke up to a piano being carried into my living room by two burly men. Within weeks of the piano being delivered a man by the name of Mr. Nicholwitz arrived....

Music Therapy in Palliative Care – Strong Partners in Healthcare

25 years has passed since I entered my first palliative care room. Today, like all the other days in the past, I was unfamiliar with the person I was about to meet – all I knew as I walked through her...

Music Therapy and Autism

In 1991, the first year of JB Music Therapy, AUTISM was still spoken about as a rare, life long, institutionalized disorder. Autistic disorder is rare, occurring in fewer than five children per ten thousand births, but with few exceptions, it...

Music Therapy and Mental Health

Many people, young and old, are living with a wide array of physical and emotional needs: decline in motor functioning, social isolation, depression, anxiety, confusion, lack of focus, stress and physical pain…. For Brad, chronic PTSD and depression robbed...