Healing Through Harmony, Connection Through Sound.

At Crescendo Care, we use music therapy to support individuals with mental health challenges, neurological conditions, autism, and memory issues. Our tailored sessions help clients express emotions, improve cognitive function, and foster connections through techniques like songwriting and improvisation.

Mental Health Disorders/Psychiatric Care

Music therapy can be a powerful tool for those struggling with mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. I offer both one-on-one and group sessions, using familiar music, songwriting, song analysis, and improvisation to help clients express and process difficult emotions. Having experienced similar challenges myself, I understand the healing power of music as a means of emotional expression. Like talk therapy, our sessions include a dialectical component to help you process feelings. By combining music-making with guided conversation, we create a space to explore emotions, gain clarity, and feel understood.

Traumatic Brain Injury/TBI

A brain affected by a severe accident requires rehabilitation, and music therapy can play a key role in this process. By using familiar music, we stimulate the hippocampus and activate stored memories, helping improve memory, executive functioning, and overall quality of life. Through song analysis, active music making, and songwriting, clients can reconnect with old memories and create new ones. Depending on the severity of the injury, music therapy can also aid in remembering daily routines or important tasks, providing a structured experience that reinforces memory and cognitive function post-injury.

Assisted Living Facilities (ALF centers)

Music is a powerful tool for clients with memory issues, stimulating the brain and triggering memories, especially through familiar songs from their teenage and early adult years. For residents with severe memory loss or disorientation, music can quickly «wake them up,» helping them become alert and engage in conversation—something they might not otherwise do. This unique ability of music to reconnect individuals with their past and activate their cognitive functions is truly remarkable. If you haven’t seen the documentary Alive Inside, it beautifully illustrates the transformative role of music in memory care settings.

Autism – Children and Adults

Every individual with autism is unique, and music therapy can support clients at all levels, from nonverbal to verbal, or those needing higher or lower support. Through sessions, we use music to help clients communicate, improve attention, and express emotions. Music-making activities like improvisation and songwriting are tailored to each client’s needs. Whether it’s responding with a word to a familiar song or creating an entire song, music therapy provides a valuable outlet for emotional expression and helps build healthy behaviors. I offer both group and individual therapy, ensuring each session is personalized and effective.

Healing for Everyone

You don’t need to have a mental health diagnosis to benefit from therapy! If you have emotions that you would like to process and express through music, we can use music as our medium of communication to achieve your goals, with the emphasis on transferring what is processed and learned in therapy to better areas of your life outside of music!

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Aditional Services

I am also available for music lessons and private musical gigs

I’ve performed at weddings, birthday parties, and private events throughout the Bay Area. Whether you need solo acoustic vibes or a full band, I can customize the music to make your event unforgettable.