The story has you waking up in a mysterious building with no idea how you got there, a very common trend in horror games when you think about it. She values both introspective time alone and community connection on the continued pursuit of radical self-love.In Sound Mind is not always visually impressive. She can often be found riding her bicycle, dancing like nobody's watching, surfing, swimming, or hiking in the woods. In addition to her work as a music therapist, Laura enjoys collaborating with other musicians for live performance and studio work. She holds a bachelor's degree in music performance from Temple University, where she studied clarinet and saxophone. Laura completed her master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapy from Drexel University in Philadelphia and interned at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine. Her work centers the experience and growing self-expertise of clients through micro and collective cultural systems. She believes that growth stems from relationship both interpersonal and intrapersonal.
Both her lived experience and clinical experience have influenced Laura’s continued commitment to healing. Integrating and loving all parts of the self are keystone to Laura’s therapeutic process, which fosters self-determination, agency, and resilience.
Her process includes confronting oppressive patriarchal, ableist, and capitalist structures as they pertain to each person’s unique experience while developing connection, growth, and community through creative interventions. Guided by healing justice principles and revolutionary growth, Laura is an abolitionist practitioner motivated by humanistic and person-centered recovery. Currently a resident of Brooklyn (colonized Lenape and Carnarsie land), she holds eight years of experience working as a music therapist with groups and individual clients of all ages. Laura (she/her/hers) is a Queer cisgender woman from Philadelphia. Shanay believes strongly in the creative process as a means toward gaining deeper insight and making meaningful, integrated connections with self and others. Her goal is to help identify barriers to a higher quality of life as the individual understands it, cultivate compassion in the process, and discover one's own empowered inner wisdom along the way. She also has extensive experience walking patients through the myriad of challenges associated with severe and terminal illnesses. With nine years of clinical experience, she has worked with a wide range of individuals treating anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, and issues related to race/gender identity. Shanay is a trauma-informed professional, incorporating a combination of music therapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and talk therapy techniques in her practice. As a result, this unique yet universally experienced medium became the foundation of her practice. She noticed that the creative arts enabled people to feel deeply, to find greater connection to one another, and even be inspired to come to new conclusions about themselves, others, and the world around them.
During her studies she came to discover that music and the arts were giving her and those around her something more than just enjoyable experiences. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Westminster Choir College where she studied voice, and she also completed coursework at Trinity Lutheran Seminary where she pursued theological studies and church music. Shanay (Shay) Johnson received her music therapy master's degree from NYU and completed her clinical training at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine.
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