Music is healing, music is growth, music is Love. As a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) and lifelong songwriter, Love has a passion for helping people through music. They’ve presented their research internationally at music therapy conferences and have grown a thriving practice, TheyLoveThem, where they specialize in Gender Affirming Music Psychotherapy and their own method of expressive music journaling. Love has taught students of all ages to express themselves through songwriting and improvisation both in the music therapy realm and through music lessons. Love’s own bond with music blossomed early in life when they started taking classical piano lessons. A natural sight reader, they progressed quickly and soon added on formal voice lessons where they explored classical, jazz and music theater singing. Eager to learn as much as possible, they picked up guitar, ukulele, drums, banjo, mandolin, violin, theremin, and even hammered dulcimer! All the while, Love continued to hone their piano chops, voice and more earning a Bachelors at Montclair State University and a Masters at SUNY New Paltz. Love is also a seasoned performer, gracing stages across the country from their undergrad days with Montclair State University’s jazz choir, through grad school with Rise Choir Philadelphia and beyond as the solo act TheyLoveThem. Love has released six separate albums with a seventh in the works. When they’re not in sessions, teaching, or writing and performing music, Love enjoys sipping tea, sampling local honey, and studying astrology. Love teaches piano, voice, guitar, ukulele, drums, and more for the school.