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Music Therapy, Justin Sant, Atlanta GA, NYU Master of Music Psychotherapy

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Bio

   Justin Sant, founder and owner of Solace Music Therapy, LLC, is a Masters-level Board-Certified Music Therapist offering a wide range of music therapy skills and a demonstrated history of clinical experience working with a variety of patients across the lifespan. Justin is skilled at designing and implementing treatment plans for clients with a diversity of physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges using a person-centered approach.

 

   Originally a guitarist that graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston after winning scholarship money from “The North American World Scholarship Tour,” Justin’s interest in music therapy began when he volunteered at a lock-down juvenile incarceration facility where he found he had a talent to get kids from rival gangs to work together on songs and develop friendships.


   Justin then began work as a music teacher dedicated to empowering individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, including survivors of the infamous Willowbrook State School. Justin supervised three assistant instructors in using music in a therapeutic manner to help individuals develop behavioral, cognitive, emotional skills and coping strategies. He developed and implemented the music curriculum for special needs adults in a day program (approximately 80 individuals per day in group sessions) and was responsible for documentation of services provided, progress, and Medicaid billing.


   Under the mentorship of the late Analytical Music Therapist Benedikte Scheiby, Justin began facilitating music therapy at the Oliver Sacks-founded Institute For Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF). Justin co-led group and individual Music Psychotherapy sessions for inpatient and outpatient populations with neurological conditions, including music-guided occupational therapy group, dementia groups, guided imagery and meditation groups, pain management groups, and individual sessions. Justin also worked to collect data before and after pain management sessions on patient self-reported pain for research into the impact of music therapy interventions.


    While at IMNF, Justin also became a visiting artist at The Louis Armstrong Center For Music and Medicine where he provided Environmental Music Therapy using improvisation to modulate the soundscape of the environment into a soothing space through consideration of the physical, psychological, and cultural needs of patients, caregivers, and staff. 


   After being accepted to the New York University Steinhardt Music Therapy graduate program, Justin began facilitating music therapy at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at New York University Langone. Justin provided group, individual, and family-centered music therapy services at the pediatric facility with patients and their families being treated for cancer and hematologic diseases, neurologic conditions, and other diseases and conditions within the acute and intensive care units. 


   Justin also spent two years at the Manhattan VA Medical Center, New York Harbor Healthcare System, where he led individual and group music therapy sessions in medical, psychiatric, and dual diagnosis settings, both inpatient and outpatient. Justin participated in psychiatric unit team meetings to discuss treatment plans and inform interdisciplinary team members of patient progress and presented at medical team meetings on the benefits and value of music therapy, leading to an increase in referrals for music therapy. Justin also established an outpatient recreation guitar group in which 15-25 Veterans attended each week.


   After completing his Masters Degree in Music Psychotherapy, with his thesis on, “The Use of Community in Music Therapy with Veterans,” Justin moved to the Atlanta area in 2017. Justin began work as an Expressive Therapist at an inpatient psychiatric hospital where he facilitated group music therapy on varying units including geriatric, adolescent, acute psychiatric, forensic psych, and substance abuse settings, while collaborating with process, art, and recreation therapists, as well as direct care staff and treatment team members.


   Upon leaving the psychiatric hospital, Justin returned to providing music therapy to Veterans,  as well as children with cognitive, developmental, emotional, and medical needs. Justin also facilitated group music therapy at drug rehabilitation facilities and provided one-on-one music therapy with elderly dementia patients.


   Justin Sant also founded and facilitated group music therapy sessions at a non-profit that works with homeless Veterans, where he ran weekly music therapy groups.

Justin is also the first music therapist in the Atlanta area to be invited to facilitate group music therapy sessions during retreats put on by another non-profit, where he runs two-hour groups that includes up to thirty Veterans.


  Justin is thrilled to open his own practice with the goal of providing high quality music therapy in the Atlanta area.