Maya Charlton, MA, MT-BC is a Board Certified Music Therapist who has been in practice since 1996. With a Master’s In Music Therapy from New York University she has extensive experience in program development, clinical supervision, and providing music therapy services for people in all life stages with particular expertise in medical and palliative music therapy. Maya brings compassion, creativity and cultural sensitivity to the therapeutic and supervisory relationship and works from an inclusive and trauma informed lens. LGBTQIA+ ally.
In addition to her private practice Maya is a senior Music Therapist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. Maya is a Certified Provider in Compassionate Bereavement Care through the MISS Foundation and teaches and presents widely on a variety of topics including pediatric music therapy, clinical improvisation and culturally responsive music therapy practice. Maya is the author of “Hear My Song: Giving Voice to Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease”, Music and Medicine : Integrative Models in the Treatment of Pain / Edited by John F. Mondanaro, Gabriel A. Sara. Satchnote Press, 2013.
Areas of specialty include:
- Pregnancy and parent/infant bonding
- Children and teens
- Chronic illness & chronic pain
- Neurological injury & rehabilitation
- Mental health, trauma, anxiety, depression
- Bereavement, grief & loss
- Hospice & palliative care
- Vicarious trauma & burnout
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