Trina Chakrabarti dreams of healing the world through music. Specifically, Trina dreams of working with teenagers in inpatient psychiatric care. She wants to provide a space for youth to feel listened to through facilitation of emotional expression using music therapy. 

Trina’s sense of purpose in helping teenagers with their mental health and doing so through music came from her own personal experience. As a teenager she struggled with depression and felt lost and alone in her plight. She didn’t know about resources that could help her and didn’t know of any others going through the same thing because depression was a taboo subject at the time. In her darkest moments, she found solace in music and the arts and she says they saved her. Trina wants adolescents to know that they have a myriad of resources available to them to help them with their mental and emotional health; from traditional therapy, to music therapy, and beyond. She also believes in community and wants people to know there are others grappling with the same challenges as them and that they are not alone.

Trina is an accredited Music Therapist who is currently working on her master's thesis. During her masters she specialized in child psychiatry and hopes to work in adolescent mental health care in the future. She is also a musician on her own time. She has achieved her Grade 10 in Voice with the Royal Conservatory of Music, writes her own songs, and plays a variety of instruments. She is currently working on a fiction novel that tackles mental health struggles during the bridge from adolescence into adulthood. In her free time she loves reading, baking, and dancing! Her new original song can be found on her youtube channel, linked below.

Youtube: Channel, New song “Stolen Pressure”

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trinachakrabarti/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaChakrabartiYoutube/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/trinachp_19