Palliative care is for those individuals living with serious illness and conditions, providing additional support to the whole person, alongside curative and/or comfort treatments.

I work through a humanistic lens and assist clients using music, sound and other complementary creative arts tools such as movement, to address and alleviate symptoms associated with the adverse condition, which usually include physical and emotional pain, mental distress and existential issues. With our training in supportive counselling techniques, clients always have an opportunity for verbal processing with the music therapist in a session as well.

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I have used music therapy in palliative care to support individuals living with many conditions including cancer, ALS, dementia, multiple sclerosis, and COPD.

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I am a certified music therapist experienced in this work most recently at Hospice Halifax in Nova Scotia where I provided service on a part-time basis, to well over 300 patients in individual sessions, as well as providing services (individual and group) to families from 2019-2021.

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I also have experience at the VG, 7A palliative ward, in Halifax where I completed a four month music therapy practicum and part of my 1000 hour internship, the remainder of this exposure to palliative care was finished in a long term residential setting at Shannex in Truro, Nova Scotia.