Music Therapy is the clinical and evidenced-based use of music interventions to reach out to a client in need.  The music (or sound) making will not always be what we commonly know as  “beautiful music”, or it might be.  But it can also be making call and response sounds or babbling with an infant; song-writing with adolescents; singing familiar songs with clients with dementia or Alzheimer’s; hospice bed-side music interventions with a client with her/his family or fingerplays with toddlers.  While we have goals in mind, emotional, communication, cognition, well-being, we work in the moment watching for clients’ responses and needs as they occur.