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.
Talk therapy can stall when a client understands everything, but feels nothing. Lucero and Schawl show how a 15-minute songwriting exercise can bridge that gap.
Donna Lucero MA, LPCC, NCC
Courtney Schawl
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