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Inclusive and Multilingual Services
With professional training as a music therapist, registered psychotherapist (view listing on Psychology Today), and researcher specializing in Parkinson’s disease, I am committed to working with clients from all walks of life. Fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, I embrace individuals of any age, cultural, or religious background. Whether you're seeking support for emotional well-being, exploring music-based therapy, or interested in innovative research, you're in the right place.
Psychotherapy
Life can feel heavy at times—anxiety, low mood, stress, burnout, relationship struggles, grief, you name it. Tian Ip offers warm, personalized psychotherapy that helps you navigate these challenges with genuine understanding, practical tools, and gentle support. Sessions—available in-person in Kitchener-Waterloo or conveniently online via secure video—are fully tailored to your unique story, pace, and goals.
Many extended health plans cover sessions; sliding scale and limited pro bono options make care accessible.For deeper insights on managing anxiety, building resilience, improving relationships, coping with depression, practicing self-compassion, and more, explore my blog at any time.
music therapy In-home service
Whether your child needs playful support for development, emotional regulation, or challenges like developmental disabilities and mental health—or you're an older adult seeking to boost memory, movement, mood, connection, and resilience amid aging or conditions like Parkinson's—music therapy offers gentle, evidence-based care right where you feel most comfortable. I deliver personalized, in-person or in-home (Kitchener-Waterloo area) or virtual sessions that harness music's unique ability to nurture mind, body, and spirit across the lifespan.
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Personalized Interventions: Utilizing techniques like musical play, songwriting, and rhythmic drumming.
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Insurance Coverage: Services may be covered under extended health plans.
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Sliding Scale Pricing: Available upon request.
vivo pd
A comprehensive group music psychotherapy program specifically designed to address motor, cognitive, speech, and psychological symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease. This program can be catered to run at any facilities in a format and duration that works for patients and caregivers.
As featured on Parkinson Society Southwestern Ontario: https://psso.ca/events/webinar-the-value-of-music-therapy/
"The only journey is the journey within."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
Pro Bono Service Available
My goal is to create a healthier society where people have increased awareness and less stigma toward mental health challenges. Mental health issues can affect all of us, our loved ones, our neighbours, our family and friends. This effect ripples through one's immediate surroundings and into the community. By seven degrees of separation, it affects everyone in the world. But together, we can fight against mental health issues and stigma to protect what we value the most. Reach out today.
Tian Ip
RP-Q, MMT, CBT, Trauma-informed
Founder of Vivo PD, researcher in Parkinson's disease, music psychotherapist, music director, and educator