Hello, I'm Grace MacDonald, and I'm a Music Therapist.
Located in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland, Spark Music Therapy Services is a private practice that offers Music Therapy Services and Adapted Music Lessons to clients across the lifespan!
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Spark Music Therapy strives to create a cozy, inclusive and sensory-friendly clinical space where clients can feel safe, comfortable, and can express themselves authentically. We guide our clients towards positive change and personal growth through the transformative power of music.
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About Music Therapy
Whether we fully realize it or not, music plays a huge part in our day to day lives. When you want a motivator to go to the gym, you might make a playlist to listen to as you go on the treadmill. When you go through a breakup, you might listen (and sing along) to Taylor Swift at top-volume in your car. When you go through a major life change, you might listen to a song that reflects your feelings and makes you feel less alone. ​Now, what if we could apply these things intentionally and therapeutically?
Music therapy sessions are planned and designed to help you navigate life's challenges, build resilience and confidence, develop coping strategies, and so much more. With a resource-oriented, client-centred approach, I help guide my clients to improve their physical, emotional, and mental health and well-being.
At Spark Music Therapy Services, our therapeutic approach integrates evidence-based music interventions and activities with a compassionate and non-judgmental attitude. We believe in creating a safe and trusting environment where clients can explore their inner world, gain insights, and work towards positive change through music.
Individual Music Therapy Sessions
Our sessions are thoughtfully curated to meet your unique needs, using music as a tool for self-expression, socialization, and personal growth.
Group Music Therapy
COMING SOON - Specialized small group music therapy
Queer Music Therapy
At Spark, we recognize the unique needs and challenges that the 2SLGBTQ+ community faces. Here, we offer both queer theory-informed 1:1 and group music therapy sessions that can focus on gender and sexuality affirming care, emotional expression and authentic identity expression, empowerment, improving confidence and self-esteem, and more.
Adaptive Music Lessons
Through our partnership with Shine Music, we also offer adaptive music lessons for clients of all ages and abilities. You have the option of including them in your music therapy sessions, or taking isolated lessons with a music therapy-informed approach; the same amount of care and consideration for student needs, without the goals, objectives, and assessments of a formal music therapy session.