Some Benefits of Harp Therapy

• Music provides the key to accessing memories for many Dementia patients.
• Harp music has a calming effect on the agitated patient.
• Chemo-therapy recipients often comment on how the harp music helps calm their anxiety and forget their troubles.
• Children with Autism and FASD find a safe means of expression with the harp. The strings provide a barrier of sorts and music games encourage development in communication and expression.
• Mood changes and stability are notable outcomes. Individual growth in confidence and healthy interactions are also attainable goals with Harp Therapy.
• Birthing mothers can be supported in the rhythms of birth, and calmed between contractions.
• Palliative care patients and their loved ones are helped through this difficult time. Certain types of improvised music can actually “give permission” to a person to let go and pass away peacefully.

“Music is a therapy. It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.”

Yehudi Menuhin, professional violinist

Dr. Noel Corser

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