Courtney Schawl, MT-BC

Author of Exercises for the Soul: Why We're All Meant to Make Music and How It Heals Us and founder of One Day Songwriter, Courtney Schawl teaches people how to use songwriting to reshape thought patterns, process emotions, and promote healing. She developed Somatic Speed Songwriting while serving as a board-certified music therapist in inpatient behavioral health hospitals and later adapted it into a 15-minute coping tool with optional AI assistance, that makes therapeutic songwriting accessible to anyone, even those with no musical background. Her clinical work demonstrated significant reductions in self-reported symptoms of anxiety, depression, and PTSD matching recent research on the subject.