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Homelessness is not simply a state of having no home. Somerville (1992) describes homelessness as being multidimensional – impacting one’s psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. Unhoused individuals often suffer from chronic stress, mental health problems, and substance use disorder.

Music therapy is music as an art, but it is also a science, and it’s applied in a way that improves quality of life and meets the needs of children and adults with disabilities and illnesses. The therapist structures music-based experiences to work toward specifically prescribed goals.

Although I have expressed myself through the arts for years (both as a performer and an enthusiastic audience member), music therapy introduced me to an entirely new use of creative aptitude that I had not witnessed before.  Admittedly, I still didn’t really understand the nuances of music therapy even as I began my formal undergraduate education as a music therapy major.