What is Harp Therapy?

Harp Therapy is a healing art based on the science of sound, using live music and the unique resonance of the harp as a tool to promote health and healing on all levels – physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological. The Harp Therapy Program impacts all ages and groups, but particularly the elderly, the shut-ins of our community, and adults and children with disabilities in supporting and improving their well-being, in essence their quality of life. It is available to all, regardless of their ability to pay.

Barbara Crowe, past president of the National Association for Music Therapists said:

“Music therapy can make the difference between withdrawal and awareness, between isolation and interaction, between chronic pain and comfort, between demoralization and dignity.”

Most applications are with individuals such as hospital patients, dementia patients, those confined to their beds or their rooms, palliative care patients and their families, patients receiving treatments such as chemo-therapy, birthing mothers and children with special needs such as Autism or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Group settings are also used in Alzheimer’s cottages, retirement homes, employee stress-release sessions and the like. The music program is created, tailored and adapted to meet the needs of the individual or group with attention to their responses, using the intrinsic elements of music: vibration, resonance and entrainment.

Meet Marilyn

Marilyn Bulger is an IHTP Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner

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