12/23/2025
Meet our music therapist, Isabella Perez!
Izzy is one of our incredible music therapists who shows up with compassion and care for our clients and their families.
1. What inspired you to pursue a career in music therapy?
"The first exposure I had to music therapy was seeing a clip on the news of a hospice nurse singing to her patients. Since then, it stayed in my heart. My passion for music began in Church singing worship and my desire to help and serve people continued to grow. When I found I could combine them, it seemed like the perfect combination. It's a privilege to be let into people's lives within therapy and music has the ability to bring joy, help process emotions both good and bad and it crosses any language and physical barrier. Being in the career is what inspires me to keep going."
2. What is your favorite part of your job?
"I love seeing how the music impacts the individual person or group I'm with. It fills me up so much to see someone smile, laugh, sing or move to the music in ways they aren't able to otherwise. Especially when the changes are subtle or you are simply helping someone relax or fall asleep who is experiencing intense pain physically or emotionally and music is the only thing to calm them."
3. How do you see music bringing people together in your work?
"I've seen it in an individual family setting, with the parent seeing their child/young adult come to life expressing themselves verbally, emotionally, physically and or creatively in new ways or for the first time. As well as in my two senior groups I have, I see some of the residents sing along, request songs, cry, smile, laugh with me, make eye contact, reach out for touch or close their eyes while listening to the familiar songs. It connects the group in a shared experience with or without words."
4. Lastly, what is a fun fact about you that may surprise people?
"Haha I love some good rock, occasionally a little metal."
Thank you for everything you do, Izzy. We are so grateful to have you on the team! 🥰
