My Approach

I have a large collection of musical instruments, a wide range of musical skills, and familiarity with many musical styles, allowing me to work with each client or group uniquely as needed.

I rely on the inherent flexibility and generosity of music to meet the particular needs of the moment: using music to calm us down, wake us up, provide insight, facilitate catharsis, or simply improve our mood. I utilize my years of professional music experience as a composer, songwriter, performer, arranger, teacher, accompanist, record producer, and music director and put it all through a clinical lens to address whatever step in the healing process shows up in a music therapy session.  

My therapeutic style is pragmatic. I have a deep trust in the power of music to facilitate profound changes. Though I draw from a wide variety of influences, including existential/humanistic, psychodynamic, feminist, arts-based, and trans-personal schools of thought, I believe that is is the client who should inform how a session goes and what will be the best tools and practices to serve healing.

My work is flexible in its paradigm, trauma-informed, and culturally-sensitive. I have influenced by psycho-neuro-immunology, polyvagal theory, internal family systems, dialectical behavioral therapy, transpersonal psychology, and psychedelic assisted therapy.