Research evidences that it can improve the global state, mental state and/or social functioning in people living with mental illness (including schizophrenia), it can increase social motivation, offer opportunities for safe and successful emotional expression and release, and it can be effective in suppressing and combating the symptoms of psychosis*.


*Source: Quin, A. & Perkins Carr, S. (2020) What is Music Therapy? How does it work and what evidence do we have? Music as Therapy International, London.

Please read our research summary here.

“I get overwhelmed by quietness, my mind and thoughts race in my head. The sound outside of my mind in the music group kind of makes me feel free to be loud”

(Music session participant, Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic, 2023)