Judith Pinkerton

Judith Pinkerton’s passion for music therapy was ignited in Alaska (1986) when her solo violin music replaced medication post-surgery in a hospital for her husband, and recently (2023) when she saved her father from death, an ICU patient whose healing was described by the medical team as “scientifically unexplainable.” As a music therapy clinician and internship director, author, TEDx speaker, recording artist, online educator, and published researcher, Judith has presented at many national conferences and is the first to receive state-issued music therapy licenses in the USA. With over twenty years experience helping individuals from womb to tomb, she has treated more than 11,000 patients in residential addiction treatment centers. Aflac and the Academy of Country Music produced a TV commercial (2018) featuring Judith as their first recipient of the Lifting Lives Honor. As the innovator of the evidence-based practice of the Music4Life® Music Medicine Protocol, Judith authored the music therapy-informed patented Key2MEE® music app with Amazon companion book "Thriving Through Adversity: Prescriptive Playlists to Reclaim Joy, Peace and Purpose in Life," both released in July 2024, in addition to accredited curricula, prescriptive playlists and therapeutic programs offering self-regulation clinical strategies to support mental health. Focused on training mental health providers to disrupt patterns of music listening habits trapped in Chronic Comfort Zones™, Judith is expanding channels to generate empathy, cooperation, and compassion that nourish mental health. Join the strong network of powerful voices to boil the ocean - meaning an enormous effort - that changes the culture of music creation and consumption for a new world.