Blog - JB Music Therapy

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...

‘Life With Music’ Fundraiser – Documentary Screening

In celebration of National Music Therapy Month (MARCH) join us for the documentary viewing of ‘Life with Emily’ – all proceeds to fund local Music Therapy program at Central Memorial High School. March 10 7:00pm – 9:00pm at Central Memorial...

Introducing Music Therapy to a Neuro Rehabilitation Unit – Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke

JB Music Therapy has partnered with the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to pilot a Music Therapy program for patients recovering from brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury. The new partnership includes a music therapy group...

The Problem with Christmas Music

Christmas music is everywhere and for some people it seems to be starting earlier and earlier each year. Memories of ‘Christmas Past’ flood back during the first bars of “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree” and for some a happiness chord is...