
09/09/2025
🎃 Starting this spooky season by announcing that I FINALLY completed my Hospice and Palliative Music Therapy (HPMT) certification!
🕸 I started on this journey more than five years ago as a newbie music therapist working in hospice care. It only took five years, five different music therapy positions, four residential moves, and two office moves!
📝 Becoming an HPMT requires completing four continuing ed courses through the Center for Music Therapy in End of Life Care: Counseling Skills for Music Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapy Institute, Child and Adolescent Grief and Loss, and Adult and Senior Grief and Loss.
👻 While I left my hospice job more than three years ago, grief work still permeates so much of the work I do with clients, whether we are addressing literal or metaphorical deaths. Grief is a part of life, and having someone trained in processing the transitions that cause us grief can make going through them just a bit less hard.
💀 What are you grieving? Do you wish there was someone else to help you hold your grief? Let's work together in a way that honors your grief and the love that lies behind it!