music therapy

I am a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered music psychotherapist.
 

What is Music Therapy?

Music therapy is an established psychological clinical intervention, which is delivered by HCPC registered music therapists who build interpersonal therapeutic relationships with clients to support people whose lives have been affected by injury, illness or disability through supporting their psychological, emotional, cognitive, physical, communicative and social needs. 
 

The benefits of music are profound and innumerable. Music can help us relate and connect to others and build stronger connections within ourselves also, allow for self expression and become an accessible vehicle to externalise emotions, build new neural pathways, elicit memories, improve cognitive function, support emotional regulation, develop social, communication and attention skills, and reduce anxiety through promoting the development of confidence, agency, control, and leaning into the innate regulatory affects of music. 

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What happens in a music therapy session? 

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A music therapy session typically lasts between 30 minutes to an hour and may be delivered on a one-to-one or group basis depending on client needs, abilities and clinical goals. A session might involve free-improvisation, where the client will be encouraged to use musical instruments to connect to and externalise, make sense of, and process unconscious feelings, express themselves and relate to others in a predominantly non-verbal medium, listening to music and exploring together the listening experience and any thoughts, feelings or memories that this listening experience evoked, songwriting as an accessible vehicle to express difficult thoughts, life experiences or emotions, recreating or learning pre-existing pieces of music to develop cognitive and social skills, and engaging in verbal dialogue to explore issues and topics that clients bring to sessions to explore. 

 

My Music Therapy services

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I am a self-employed freelance music therapist, working within a variety of settings including mainstream and special schools, homes, hospitals and care homes. I use a psychodynamically and trauma-informed, person-centred and culture-centred approach to my therapeutic work and adapt sessions to meet the needs and goals of each individual. I have experience in working with children and adults who have experienced trauma, PMLD, adoption, attachment issues, neurodivergence, psychosis and mental health conditions and illness and physical injury and disability. 

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My sessions are client-led, and I strive to provide a holding, containing and confidential safe space in which a strong therapeutic relationship can develop with each and every client to facilitate meaningful change. 

My HCPC registration number is AS16846. I hold an enhanced DBS check and am registered with the Update Service, and have both professional indemnity and public liability insurance. I am also a member of the British Association of Music Therapy (BAMT) and the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM), and hold up-to-date Level 3 certificates in both child and adult safeguarding. I also engage in regular clinical supervision and CPD. 

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To enquire about my music therapy services and availability, please get in touch here

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Qualifications:

• MA Music Therapy - Distinction - University of the West of England (UWE) (2019)

• BA Music - First Class Honours - University of Plymouth

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Professional Body Registrations:

• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) 2019

• British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) 2020

• Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) 2019

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