After a day of doing intense psychotherapy with clients I reach for classical music. It evens me out. 
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What classical? I reach for Beethoven’s 6th, or perhaps Haydn chamber music.
I have been to Boca Ratón, and would think it would be a target rich environment for intense psychotherapy.
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Smooth Jazz or opening my window and listening to the surf in real time, NO audio equipment needed. 
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Well, this sounds abstract, but usually just the music that moves me that day. I don’t really have “chill” music.
If I’m focusing at work, deep house mixes by DJs such as the masterful Hernan Cattaneo do the trick.
Lately it’s been Mendelssohn’s 3-5, and The Hebrides. I listen to the two Leonard Bernstein versions on Deutsche Grammophon. As for Boca, we certainly have neurotics floating around, just one or two… Hahaha.
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I’ve liked about 80% of what this Czechian piano-boi has made, prominent place in my Chill folder, second only to Helios I think.
Depends. Some days it’s Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3,2. Or Dvorak.
Other days it’s Ronnie Earl’s and the Broadcasters smooth slow blues guitar.
Sometimes it’s Chis Botti, Miles Davis, or Chet Baker.
Other day’s its Beethoven.
Ralph Lundsten – “Music for Relaxation and Meditation” (compilation) 
I like listening to Romance by My Chemical Romance, White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes, and Low by SZA to calm down and chill 
If there is one artist, it would be Hiroshi Yoshimura. Perhaps this is my favourite, composed as ambient music for a Bauhaus art gallery in southern Tokyo in the 1980s.
More recently, Migratory by Masayoshi Fujita is a favourite.
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I was getting annoyed with the lengthening dry spell in new discoveries, so I tapped my most trusted discovery mechanism that is the “play similar artists” auto-generated “radio” you can get on Last.FM on any artist’s page (in the 3 dots menu) - started off from the Phoebe Bridgers page and immediately got this gem:
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Speaking of Ólafur Arnalds, one of his hardest pieces to stop playing on repeat has got to be the cosmically expansive Woven Song with its sample of ayahuasca ceremonial chanting from the Shipibo shamans of Peru:
Hania Rani seems to have liked it a lot herself - she covered it solo and made this other sublime video in its own way (humming the shamanic part to herself gives it this incredible melancholic feel like she’s playing a half-remembered song from long ago):
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Nomyn or any kind of chill step is a good way to just zone and relax.
somafm.com is free and has a bunch of chill/ambient streams that play in your browser.
They also show playlists so if you hear something you like you can check it out further.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve been listening for the last couple of hours and it’s really nice to not be stuck in an algorithm. Don’t get me wrong, it plays a lot of really good songs but sometimes I feel like that Patton Oswalt joke about Tivo recommending nothing but horses because you watched something with horses one time. I lack the musical creativity to feed the algorithm something new.
They organize the streams by theme so all the songs in a stream will have a common vibe.
If you want a change just pick a different stream for a while!
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Have you seen the great & strange Sci-Fi film, UNDER THE SKIN? If so, you heard one of the great electronic soundtracks around. I went out and bought it immediately after viewing the film.
This music is just as unsettling and, at times, scary as the film itself. I was playing it in my office one time when my wife walked in. “Shut that off–it’s terrible!” (no, it’s wonderful).
Dug her up last year from my ‘extended collection’ of things I hadn’t been actively listening to in years.
Emiliana Torrini - Lifesaver
Today Has Been OK
Came up on shuffle today: Made in Heights - Lunette
Very different from most of the posts here, but my reliable go-to for deep relaxation is Gregorian chant….
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