Music Therapy

This method doesn’t require any musical training on the client’s part. Music therapy can be active or receptive. In active music therapy, children can use an instrument or their own voice and hands as ‘rhythm instruments’. Free improvisation is the primary activity which provides a space to experience connection, disconnection, harmony, disharmony, unity and solitude. In receptive music therapy, children listen to live music or music played on an instrument.

Music therapy can be used to mobilise emotions and to evoke different states. The emotions and feelings experienced through music help children, who are in a state of consciousness that is constricted due to hospitalisation, to release stress that has accumulated within themselves.