"I Can't Think of Anything More Fulfilling": An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Eight Female-Identifying Music Therapists' Career Longevity.

Although there is literature exploring burnout and music therapists who have left the profession, there is a lack of research exploring the lived experience of music therapists who have remained in the profession for their careers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand the lived experience of music therapy clinicians in the United States who remained in the profession for their careers. We individually interviewed eight female-identifying music therapy clinicians who had been in the profession between 25 and 48 (M = 40.