Music therapy a different kind of help
Nurses and health care professionals got a mini-concert Wednesday, which involved singing, head-bobbing and even a little “dancing.”
The featured musician was Kate Cotter, a licensed music therapist who used an acoustic guitar and her singing voice to take the workers on a mental reprieve from their regular tasks in a short group session.
The audience, a group of nurses working on the patient floor at Butler Memorial Hospital, also got tips about how they could use music to stay grounded and present in stressful times.
“It's learning to practice a skill of being aware of your own breath, heart rate, how the chair feels below you,” Cotter said. “It's taking what can be a very scattered mind, and you're learning how to use music for therapeutic goals.”
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