Music Therapy Education & Background
Helen earned her MA in Music Therapy from Roehampton University and has been practising since 2007, when she joined a Music Therapy team working for a charity based in Berkshire. Helen completed her training in Guided Imagery & Music (GIM) on the Integrative Guided Imagery and Music Training Programme (London), where she also gained a diploma in Music & Imagery Therapy, and where she is now an Assistant Trainer and Supervisor on the Music & Imagery Therapy courses, alongside running her own private practice.
Training with Dr Dag Körlin, creator of the Music Breathing Method, Helen has also qualified as an Independent Music Breathing Practitioner, an adaptation of GIM which focuses on breathwork and music-listening, which can be extremely effective in the treatment of trauma.
Helen also has extensive experience of working with adults and young people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Condition, sensory processing difficulties, terminal illness, Dementia, and the link between emotional and physical pain. From 2009 - 2019, Helen co-facilitated a Music as Communication Project in Minsk, Belarus, as part of a fellow Music Therapist's PhD research. Staff were trained in using music as a form of emotional communication with the children in their care.
Skills & Approach
Helen supports a wide range of people to explore and move forward from difficult emotional experiences and is committed to helping people to reach their fullest potential. She believes that we all have the capacity to transform our emotional selves through exploration of our own unique creativity.
Helen understands the need to feel safe when exploring life's challenges and our emotional worlds, and strives to create a warm, comfortable, and accepting environment tailored to individual needs.
Trust built in the relationship between Therapist and Client, as well as in the ability of music to soothe and heal, is at the heart of Helen's ethos. She believes it is the combination of therapeutic relationship, music, and imagery, which opens the doorway to our own individual routes for change.
