Music therapy is a psychological intervention which uses the musical skills of the therapist to support a client's mental health.
Music therapists have to train for two years to get an MA in Music Therapy from one of 8 different teaching courses.
Music therapy is a protected title by the Health and Care Professions Council. You can be prosecuted for practicing music therapy without being registered with them (don't worry, I am!)
Anywhere and everywhere! Music therapists are versatile, working in schools, hospitals, houses, and even parks! I work in Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, E17, and East London.
You can find out more about music therapy in the UK at www.bamt.org and at NHS England's site on the Allied Health Professions.
Whilst I bring a whole toolbox of psychoanalytical thinking to my sessions to tailor it to the client, I fundamentally return to the humanistic approach: who is this person and what are they telling me.
And that's the beauty of music therapy: they don't have to tell me - they can show me. This means I can work with people who both can and can't speak, want and don't want to speak, and begin to empathise with the emotions they evoke in me through their music.
My overall psychological approach is a humanistic one, where I seek to help you fulfil your potential as an individual. This is always according to our lens of what your potential is, not the lens of the outside world.
Humanistic music therapy sees the person as they are in the moment that they're seen, appreciating that we are all only ever seeing snapshots of the inner self. I don't bring expectations, I don't bring judgements, and I believe that we are all fundamentally worth appreciation, worthy of time, and love.
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