Music Therapy

Clients describe music therapy as fun, enjoyable and something they look forward to. However, music therapy provides a range of therapeutic benefits through stimulating and enjoyable activities.

Clients

Music therapy is suitable for all sorts of people including the elderly, people with dementia or Alzheimer’s, people with intellectual disabilities, people with mental health issues and people in palliative care.

Sessions

Harmonic Tonic Music Therapy offers individual and group music therapy sessions at community centres, nursing homes, hostels etc.

Client benefits

Music therapy for clients can:

• improve self-esteem and self-worth
• alleviate feelings or pain, depression or boredom
• decrease restlessness and challenging behaviour
• provide an outlet for expression
• provide social interaction and reduce isolation
• improve respiration
• encourage movement
• provide cognitive stimulation
• assist in recovery from mental or physical illness.

Carer benefits

Music therapy also benefits the carers of clients as music therapy can:

• give them time to themselves or time for other activities
• result in calmer and more agreeable clients or family members
• be an activity they can enjoy with clients or family members
• provide connection and interaction with their clients or family members.

Music therapy techniques

Music therapy sessions may involve the following activities depending of the clients’ abilities and needs:

• singing
• playing instruments
• musical improvisation on percussion and tonal instruments
• listening to music
• requesting favourite songs
• moving/dancing to music
• discussion/reminiscing
• song writing.

Equipment

Harmonic Tonic Music Therapy has a range of equipment to suit individual and group music therapy sessions including:

• song lyric sheets
• hand held percussion
• drums
• keyboard
• guitars
• multi-track recording software.

Further information

Please feel free to contact Shaw Herron via email or telephone if you have any enquiries about music therapy or wish to make an appointment.