Music therapy is the use of evidence-based music interventions by a credentialed music therapist to improve health outcomes within a therapeutic relationship. Methods of Music Therapy encompass receptive, re-creative, compositional, and improvisational techniques.
What Happens in Music Therapy?
These goals include:
- optimising neuro-rehabilitation objectives (e.g., vocalisation, gait training, endurance, etc.)managing pain in patients with cancer, and patients in the SGH Burns Centre
- increasing cognition in patients with dementia
- enhancing arousal in patients with disorders of consciousness
- promoting normalisation for babies in the Neonatal ICU
- providing psycho-emotional support and/or Music Legacy Work for ICU and/or palliative care patients.
In conclusion, music therapy aims to promote quality of life of patients and their family members.
Our Music Therapists are professionally certified and have undergone at least a Bachelor's Degree and advanced post-graduate training to ensure the highest quality of care and expertise in Music Therapy interventions.
Our Team
Stephanie Chan, Senior Music Therapist
BMus Music Therapy
Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC), Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT)
Estelle Ng, Music Therapist
MA Music Therapy
Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC), Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT)
Get in Touch
For inquiries and callbacks, please call the SGH General Helpline at (65) 6222 3322.
