Music Therapy With Maxine (Fisher) Saunders M. Ed, MTA, RCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor & Certified Music Therapist

“Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”
-Leonard Bernstein

Music Therapy is helpful in supporting many individuals from youth to seniors and everything in between. Music Therapy can also be offered online. Voice work both spoken and singing reduces stress & increases well being. Music with your little one’s is also offered for parents of young children. Call to find out what works best to support you and your loved ones.

Music Therapy, as defined by the Canadian Association for Music Therapy, is the skillful use of music and musical elements by an certified 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.

Humans hear and experience sound for the first time in the womb when they hear the mother’s heartbeat, breath and muffled voice. From the moment of birth, loved ones’ voices are recognized through the musicality of their speech.

Most people have been deeply moved by a piece of music during their lives. Songs can be used to create a retrospective road map of those lives. Think back to those songs from childhood, teens, 20s, 30s and onwards; humming a tune can bring back old memories while particular songs are often associated with a person or place. Music is universally accessible to individuals as well as groups of people, and to experience music, one does not have to have formal musical training. Music Therapists bring music to clients to enhance and improve their lives. Music heals, relieves tension and energizes.

“I most appreciated the spontaneous way you work with music & children by using creativity, innovation, & improvisation-all informed through your knowledge, life and work experience.” Stephen Williams Coordinator, Bachelor Of Music Therapy Program Capilano University