Kroger Wellness Festival | Music as Medicine

Learn More about Music as Medicine

Music can encourage social connection at a live concert, motivate you through a workout, or even help you fall asleep. A board-certified music therapist can help you deepen your connection to and understanding of how music impacts well-being. Music therapists can help you find the best intervention and “dose” to positively impact your health and provide a form of healing. Music therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses evidence-based music interventions to address therapeutic healthcare goals. A 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis showed that the use of music interventions (listening to music, singing, and music therapy) can create significant improvements in mental health, and smaller improvements in physical health-related quality of life.

Join us at a Free Monthly Sound Immersion Event!

Immerse yourself in soothing sounds produced by instruments such as singing bowls, gongs, didgeridoos, flutes, and chimes for an immersive sensory experience. Shown to promote deep relaxation and nervous system regulation, sound therapy uses sound, music, and special instruments played in therapeutic ways, combined with deep self-reflection techniques to improve health and well-being.

• Where: Blood Cancer Healing Center 3232 Healing Way, Cincinnati, OH 45229
• When: Second Tuesday of each month from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Participants are encouraged to attend the full session but are welcome to come and go if needed.
• Cost: This class is offered at no-cost thanks to a generous donation from the Waddell Family Foundation.
• Registration: Sound Immersion registration information.

Meet Betsey Zenk Nuseibeh, MM, MEd, MT-BC

Betsey Zenk Nuseibeh, MM, MEd, MT-BC teaches the MEDs 2090 Music and Health course at the UC College of Medicine for undergraduate students. Betsey is a predoctoral research fellow at the Indiana University School of Nursing, building a program of research with a focus on improving health-related quality of life for cancer survivors through the use of music interventions. Betsey has worked in the field of music and music therapy for 20 years and founded Melodic Connections in 2008, a non-profit community music therapy studio providing services to all ages and abilities and creating partnerships with key institutions in the city including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Public Schools. Betsey received her BM in Music Therapy from the University of Iowa. She has an MM in Oboe Performance from the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music, and her MEd from the University of Cincinnati in Special Education.