Adya Sequeira Music Therapy

"Music therapy is the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote, maintain, and restore mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Music has nonverbal, creative, structural, and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact, interaction, self-awareness, learning, self-expression, communication, and personal development. Who benefits from Music Therapy? Music therapy is used with individuals of various ages, abilities, and musical backgrounds in institutional, community and private practice settings. This includes but is not limited to: Acquired Brain Injury AIDS Autism and other Pervasive Development Disabilities Critical Care Developmental Disabilities Emotional Traumas Geriatric Care Hearing Impairments Mental Health Neonatal Care Obstetrics Oncology Pain Control Palliative Care Personal Growth Physical DisabilitiesTop Speech and Language Impairments Substance Abuse Teens at Risk Victims of Abuse Visual Impairments" - musictherapy.ca "Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand" - Stevie Wonder