March is Music Therapy Awareness Month in Canada!

Music therapy facilitates the process of personal growth and change through the provision of expressive and receptive musical experiences. The music therapist guides clients towards developmental, rehabilitative, psychotherapeutic, and wellness goals by fostering personal expression, and creating musical experiences.

Concordia University offers two different graduate programs in music therapy: The Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy and the Master’s in Creative Arts Therapies (Music Therapy Option). Both programs are approved by the Canadian Association for Music Therapy (CAMT).

Career opportunities for music therapists exist in a wide variety of healthcare and educational settings. These include psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitative facilities, medical hospitals, outpatient clinics, day care treatment centers, agencies serving persons with developmental disabilities, community mental health and wellness centers, drug and alcohol programs, senior centers, nursing homes, hospice programs, correctional facilities, halfway houses, schools, and private practice. Read our Concordia alumni career stories.

For more information about career and employment opportunities:

·         Canadian Association of Music Therapists

·         Association québécoise de musicothérapie

·         American Music Therapy Association