Music Therapy for PTSD & Addiction Treatment

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s next educational webinar: Music Therapy for PTSD & Addiction Treatment with Sarah Bell, MA, MTA, RCT-C, Music Therapist, Atlantic Centre for Trauma.

Have you ever thought of the power music has? Or the way music can evoke such emotion and strongly relate to certain points within your life? According to the Canadian Association of Music Therapists, music therapy is a discipline in which Certified Music Therapists (MTAs) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being. Music therapists use music safely and ethically to address human needs with cognitive, communicative, emotional, musical, physical, social, and spiritual domains. Join Sarah Bell, Music Therapist at the Atlantic Centre for Trauma, as she explains the ways in which music therapy can help treat PTSD and addiction.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Understand what music therapy entails and how it can treat PTSD and addictions
Discuss the historical significance of music as a healing practice
Examine the scientific reaction of the brain to music
Explore a music therapist’s professional training