Music & Imagery Therapy
- Help to build resilience and equip you with strategies with which to deal with the stress of modern life.
- Develop, build, and increase self-confidence and self-worth.
- Suitable for a range of ages.
- Online sessions available.
Music & Imagery is a short-term, goal based therapy that can target specific issues, or help you to work through patterns in your wider life which may be impacting upon your health and happiness. Sessions combine talking, music listening, and drawing (which can take the form of shapes, blocks of colour, or pictures).
Sessions
- 8 week course of sessions (one assessment, followed by 7 60-75 minutes sessions)
- 1 - 1¼ hours
- Individual or group
Guided Imagery & Music
- A more in-depth look at issues and challenges in your life.
- Short or longer term therapy courses.
- Can also be used for personal development, emotional well-being, & creative blockages.
- Online sessions available.
Guided Imagery & Music uses relaxation and music-listening to unlock imagination, potential, & creativity. You will be gently guided through your imagery experience, safely navigating areas of your life you wish to explore.
Sessions
- GIM can be experienced in courses of 6 or 10 sessions.
- Sessions last between 1.5 - 2 hours.
Music Breathing
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- Support for stress, trauma, and the nervous system
- Build and increase ability to self-regulate
- Online sessions available
Music Breathing is an adaptation of Guided Imagery & Music, developed by Dr Dag Körlin. Combing mindful breathing, music-listening, and neuropsychological theory, sessions utilise Silent Breathing to familiarise us with the use of breath as a grounding technique, before music is used to accompany the breathing process; synchronising music and breath.
Sessions
- 60 - 75 minutes
- 2 sessions per week for the first week, then 1 a week, for 6 weeks
Sessions can help to regulate the nervous system and increase Window of Tolerance, allowing processing and integration of life experiences.
Arts Psychotherapy Supervision
- Individual supervision for Arts Psychotherapists & Music & Imagery Therapists/Trainees.
- Offered via Zoom.
Supervision offered for the following clinical areas: physical and emotional well-being, PTSD/complex trauma, learning disabilities, PMLD, autism, sensory processing difficulties, challenging behaviour, communication disorders, mental health needs, dementia, terminal illness, end of life care, adult and young people's mental health, and Music & Imagery Therapy (individual and group work). I also supervise Music & Imagery Therapy trainees.
I have extensive experience of working in a residential setting, together with understanding of working within religious and cultural frameworks. From 2009-2019 I was involved in a project in Minsk, Belarus, co-facilitating training for Care staff in the use of music as a form of emotional communication, as part of a fellow Music Therapist's PhD research. I also provided live supervision in this setting. I have 10 years experience as a Placement Manager.
I have a special interest in holistic working, as well as the relationship between emotional and physical health, and the use of the voice therapeutically. I work from a psychodynamic perspective, incorporating many other approaches in order to tailor sessions to individual needs.
Fees: £50 per hour