Why did you choose to pursue a career as a music therapist?

"I chose to pursue a career as a music therapist because I love to play music and realized what a positive effect it had on my grandmother who has Alzheimer's. I would visit my grandmother in a memory care facility and bring my guitar and sing and play for her. She would not remember who I was, but when I started playing songs she sang to me when I was a child, it was like a lightbulb switched on, and she would remember my name. That is when the lightbulb switched on for me that this was the career I wanted to pursue."