Wellness and the Arts

The AdventHealth employee orchestra performs at Disney Springs.

The Art of Healing

At AdventHealth, we believe the arts open the door to whole-person healing, enhancing our health in body, mind and spirit. The arts have the powerful ability to:

Enable us to process difficult emotions during emergencies and challenging events
Help us develop social and emotional skills through arts education
Help us emotionally as we navigate illness or injury
Inspire us to seek holistic wellness
Motivate us during recovery
Release hormones that trigger sensations of pleasure and positive emotions

These are just a few of the reasons why we’re dedicated to helping our community feel whole through the arts.

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AdventHealth is honored to serve as the Official Health Care Provider for these world-renowned performing arts organizations. Our partnerships allow us to explore the intersection of wellness and the arts - enriching individuals in the community through our work together.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

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Bach Festival Society of Winter Park

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Opera Orlando

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Orlando Family Stage

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Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

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Orlando Shakes

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The Plaza Live

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The arts provide a sense of healing and wholeness to patrons and performers alike. Wendy Bryn Harmer, an accomplished Soprano Opera performer and ovarian cancer survivor, shares how music and the performing arts community have played a vital role on her health and career.

AdventHealth’s Performer Health Program is the only program of its kind in Central Florida. Our specially trained providers are passionate about performing arts medicine and have extensive experience treating performers and their unique conditions. They help educate and prevent performance-related injuries, caring for artists when the unexpected happens —knowing the show must go on.

Jason Epstein, MD

Dr. Epstein is a board-certified physician specializing in sports medicine. He completed his residency in family medicine at Inspira Healthcare Network in Woodbury, NJ, and followed with a sports medicine fellowship at Halifax Health. He currently serves as the head team physician for the Orlando Solar Bears and works closely with professional wrestling and the performing arts.

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David Hirsch, MD

Dr. David Hirsch is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand and wrist conditions. His areas of expertise include hand and wrist pathology, nerve and tendon disorders, wrist and elbow arthritis. He also provides expert fracture care for a variety of orthopaedic injuries.

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Ainslee Juarbee, MD

Ainslee Juarbe, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician. After graduating with honors from University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, Dr. Juarbe received her medical degree from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, in Tampa, FL. She went on to complete a residency at Morsani College of Medicine.

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Jeffrey J. Lehman, MD

Make an appointment with Jeffrey J Lehman, MD at AdventHealth now, find contact information and more. Your AdventHealth team is dedicated to providing whole-person care that heals your body, strengthens your mind and lifts your spirit. You deserve to feel whole.

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Brian C. Spector, MD

Dr. Brian C. Spector focuses his practice on adult and pediatric otolaryngology as well as skull-based tumors. Since 2004, he has served as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Throughout his career, he has been involved in various research and teaching roles with numerous publications and presentations around the country to his credit. He has also been consistently named as one of the area’s “Top Doctors” by Orlando Magazine.

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Music therapy uses music to help meet the medical, physical, emotional and cognitive needs of patients. Trained music therapists incorporate music into their treatment. And the evidence is clear: Music and whole-person healing go hand-in-hand. It connects us to others socially, uplifts us emotionally and helps us learn. It can calm us when we need peace and energize us to get moving. Above all, music can help keep us healthy and happy — in body, mind and spirit. You can heal with music therapy.

The board-certified music therapists use music interventions that are effective by research evidence, music therapy theory and clinical practice.

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The Benefits of Music Therapy Services

Music therapy is the clinical use of music by a board-certified music therapist (MT-BC) to help each patient reach their goals. Some of the goals we work toward with our patient population for both children and adults include:

Decreasing symptoms of depression, isolation and anxiety
Eliminating or decreasing sedation for pediatric procedures
Improving functional communication
Improving neurological development
Increasing and promoting positive coping skills
Increasing a sense of control
Increasing quality of life
Increasing socialization
Normalizing the hospital environment
Pain reduction and management
Promote developmental milestones
Promoting motor rehabilitation and development
Providing emotional support and expression

The board-certified music therapists who work with your child use music interventions that are informed and shown effective by research evidence, music therapy theory and clinical practice. These therapeutic treatments include improvisation, songwriting, lyric analysis, song discussion, music-assisted relaxation and imagery, therapeutic instrumental music performance, developmental speech/language, and cognitive musical exercises.

Caring for Our Community

At AdventHealth, we’re all about cultivating artistry, empowering creativity and expanding imaginations. View the powerful impact the arts have on our whole health and whole community.