The intersection of music and healing is where I find my life’s work. As a musician and registered nurse, I bring both fields together to create a healing environment that is rooted in both science and music.

 

As a Certified Music Practitioner (CMP), I provide live acoustic music at the bedside, one-on-one, for therapeutic purposes. Therapeutic music is intended to alleviate physical, emotional, or mental concerns. It is art based on the science of sound and uses live acoustic music tailored to your immediate needs to help create an environment conducive to healing. Contemporary scientific research has shown that music has measurable physiological effects. For example, therapeutic music may stabilize heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration rates. 

 

As a CMP, I am specially trained to provide prescriptive music, based on your current condition. Throughout the session, I assess to see if your condition or response is changing, and if so, I modify the music being played accordingly. My focus is on you with the aim of bringing in-the-moment comfort to your whole being—emotional, spiritual, mental, and physiological—simply by being in the presence of the music.  

 

I provide therapeutic music to people of all races, religions, ages, genders, physical abilities, sexual orientations and ethnicities in a wide array of settings. As a CMP, I provide therapeutic music in most settings including hospitals (intensive care units, neonatal intensive care units, hospice units, medical/surgical units, etc.), skilled nursing facilities, hospices, private homes, cancer centers, dialysis centers, and virtually.

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I believe in the transformative power of music as a therapeutic enhancement to the healing process and the life/death transition.