Contact Information
Joy Berger, DMA, BCC, MT-BC
5816 Waveland Circle
Prospect, KY  40059
Ph: (502) 593-3916        Fax: (502) 426-8941
jberger288@aol.com
 

Simply, Joy Berger is a musician of the soul.  She seeks to hear and play "music of life" --- literally and metaphorically.  Her extensive professional roles interweave music, pastoral care, hospice care, music therapy, and education, in a variety of shapes and forms.

Joy's doctoral dissertation,  Music As a Catalyst for Pastoral Care Within the Remembering Tasks of Grief (1993), puts forth a clinical model for sensitive musical interventions through different seasons of grief.   Clinically, she has specialized in integrating music and spiritual care with persons experiencing loss and grief, serving Hospice & Palliative Care of Louisville (KY) from 1993-2002 as both chaplain and music therapist. 

Since then, she continues to serve as administrative director for Hospice Institute, the education and research arm for Hospice & Palliative Care of Louisville, Central Kentucky, and Southern Indiana.  Additionally, she teaches the "Music Therapy Training Group" for the University of Louisville, School of Music, Department of Music Therapy.  On Sunday mornings she finds joy at the organ of the Episcopal Church Home in Louisville, using "music of the soul" to reach the minds and hearts of their Memory Care patients and caregivers.   

 This website grew out of Joy's seminar and conference teaching, beyond the scope of her hospice roles.  It has become a tool for using music to be in and move through life's losses, into healing and hope.  

Dr. Joy Berger is  board certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains, and  by the Certification Board for Music Therapists. She is a professional member of the  American Association of Music Therapy, the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, and the National Council of Hospice & Palliative Professionals.  She was honored with the National Heart of Hospice Award in Psychosocial/Spiritual Care, 2002, by the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization.