Are you ready for a music therapy session? In this episode, Terel Jackson, not only discusses the one-on-one and group sessions she leads at the James, and how she adapted during COVID, she also gives a music therapy demonstration using a Suzuki chime. "Think of [music therapy] as a tool to help people make positive changes in their lives," she explained of her goals for the cancer patients she works with. During the pandemic, the number of James patients and their caregivers who participated in music therapy programs actually increased. "We wanted to give people that human connection and feel cared for and heard and understood," Jackson said.
