Meaghan Jackson, MA, RCT-C, MTA, FAMI, is Registered Counselling Therapist-Candidate, Certified Music Therapist and AMI-certified Guided Imagery & Music practitioner who has spent many years working with individuals and their families living with life-limiting illness as well as grief & bereavement care.  She has shared her work at local, national, and international conferences as well as on national radio and various local, national, and international media outlets. 

Meaghan grew up on Cape Breton Island with kitchen parties, surrounded by music and laughter and stories. She studied jazz piano & voice at St Francis Xavier University, earning a Diploma of Jazz Studies in 2003. She completed her Bachelor of Music Therapy from Capilano University in 2007. In 2021 she completed her training in Guided Imagery & Music and became a Fellow of the Association for Music & Imagery. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Arts Therapy from Concordia University where her qualitative interview research focused on the use of songwriting as an expression of grief on Cape Breton Island. 

During her career, she has worked as a music therapist in palliative care at Lions Gate Hospital and at North Shore Hospice in North Vancouver. She has worked with Camp Kerry, now Lumara Grief & Bereavement Care Society, since its creation in 2007 and has travelled across the country facilitating music therapy sessions and directing the music team for Lumara's beloved family bereavement retreats. She recently developed a music therapy grief & bereavement program for Hospice Cape Breton with the support of the Hospice Palliative Care Society of Cape Breton County. 

Meaghan believes strongly in the power of music to hold space and bring people together during even the most challenging times of our lives. Using music to calm our nervous systems and express emotion, especially through songwriting, has been a passion of hers for years. 
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After spending far too many years away, during the pandemic she returned home after driving from Vancouver to Cape Breton with her family in a big blue school bus. She now lives in South Bar in Unama’ki, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people.