RVNAhealth's Sherrye Platt and the Power of Music
Written by Nan McKernon
It started with a toy organ and a relative’s birthday celebration.
Sherrye Platt was three years old when she sat at her family’s toy organ and played the Happy Birthday tune without any instruction. Music became a lifelong hobby and eventually a fulfilling career as a board-certified music therapist. While an undergraduate at Montclair State University (MSU), where she studied to be a music teacher and eventually earned her bachelor’s, Platt was introduced to music as an evidence-based therapeutic tool being leveraged across disciples including mental health, military populations, trauma victims, and those afflicted with neurological conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.