Fizz Margereson
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About me
Creative Therapy with Fizz
My name is Fizz Margereson, and I’m a HCPC-registered Music Psychotherapist based in South East London. Music Therapy is a fantastic form of therapy which can transform lives. I’m passionate about bringing different forms of creativity into my practice. I’ve seen how many people can be happier, healthier, and cope better with creativity in their lives.
What is Creative Psychotherapy?
Creative Therapy can support children, young people, and adults to express and understand themselves. People often choose creative therapy because it is a way of understanding emotion and expression when using words is difficult. Someone doesn’t have to be particularly “creative” to have creative therapy, they just might want to find a more physical way to express and explore their thoughts and feelings.
Psychotherapy forms an incredibly important part of my sessions. I work with an understanding that the experiences you have had as a child inform so much of how you are now. So, I gently and safely aim to facilitate an exploration of childhood experiences to understand how they manifest now.
Who do I work with?
As a creative psychotherapist, I work with those who experience anxiety, low moods, and depression. I also support those who want to better understand their neurodivergence. My experience has led me to work in a number of ways with children, young people, and adults in which talking about emotions does not feel easy. I use many different activities in sessions to connect in a creative way. This might be musically through improvisation, songwriting, listening to music, learning to play different pieces of music or musical games. It also might include arts and crafts, journalling, creative writing, drawing, painting, or simply talking to each other! I support and encourage all of these ways of being creative by interpreting the person’s expression and helping them to see and explore this for themselves.
An example of working together might be spending 10 minutes at the beginning, just both doodling or drawing as we check in with one another at the beginning of the session. Then, we might both take a look at our doodles and see if you are captured or drawn to anything in them. Then, we might move on to some writing in which a few minutes is spent writing without thinking or self-editing. This supports a flow of self-expression and comfortability. This might lead to writing a song or story together that expresses a certain worry, fear, joy, or anger that you might have. We can build this together so that it doesn’t feel scary or daunting. You may even feel drawn to playing an instrument together. Perhaps you playing a small melody, followed by me, and so forth. This could then grow into a longer piece of music that we play together. These sorts of activities support you in exploring emotion. We work in a way where your subconscious is welcomed, and your thoughts and feelings are free to roam and not policed or censored! Don’t worry, we will always work together gently, and at the right pace for you to feel comfortable. We will talk about strategies to manage more difficult emotions in day-to-day life too.
How has Music Therapy supported people I have worked with?
I often work with children who have difficulty with communication and expressing emotion. I work to build and support the growth of a creative language together, which might be through music, art making, or play. I speak about this with the family and aim to encourage a strong creative connection and communication at home too. For example, I might work with a young child who does not feel comfortable speaking. So I encourage them to sing favourite nursery rhymes. This might encourage them to sing more generally, perhaps whilst pointing at different objects or toys. I would then repeat these phrases back to her and perhaps create a little song about this object. The child then begins to realise that I am engaging in a sort of musical communication with them. They realise that communicating with someone can be fun! I would then suggest that the parents at home try to spend some regular time encouraging this sort of interaction together.
Another example might be working with young people or adults who are struggling with anxiety or depression. Creative therapy can aid an exploration of expression without them even saying a word. Often, as the creativity begins to flow through improvisation, songwriting, art-making, or writing, talking can become easier. The relationship is being built without the pressure of words being the main focus. Sometimes it can be really difficult to understand why you might feel a certain way, perhaps angry or anxious about something. You might not even realise that you are angry until you are with someone who encourages your subconscious to take the lead. Using words to try to explain how you feel might be too difficult, and so something like improvising or drawing together might allow you to channel the feeling of anger in a more manageable way. We then would talk about the music we created or the drawing you did. Together, we would explore what it might represent. Creative activities can unlock thoughts, feelings, and emotions when you are working in an uncensored and caring environment. Realising how and why we think certain things and understanding why we hurt is an important step towards living life in a more understanding and manageable way.
Training, qualifications & experience
After completing my BA in Music at the University of York, I decided to study Music Therapy. At York, I was involved in numerous creative community initiatives, leading the creative hospital project at York Hospital in my third year.
I graduated with a Distinction in my MA in Music Therapy from Anglia Ruskin University in 2023. My first jobs after graduating were at Keech Hospice in Luton (2022 – 2024) and at Mapledown SEN School in Brent Cross (2023 – 2025). Since then, I’ve been a freelance creative therapist working for several organisations, including Mindheart Creative Therapies (2024 – present), Richmond Music Therapy (2024 – present), Right Note Music Therapy (2025 – present), and I am an Associate Music Therapist at Anchor Music Therapy (2026 – present). Through these organisations and my own private work, I have worked in several different mainstream Primary and secondary schools, SEN Primary and Secondary Schools, Care Homes, and Different Community Mental Health Settings.
In 2025, I co-led a research project on the impact of improvisational music making on the wellbeing with parents of young people with learning disabilities. I presented this research at the European Music Therapy Conference in Hamburg in July 2025. I am also a visiting Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University.
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 - £80.00
Additional information
I provide an initial 20-minute meeting online for free. This is to meet one another and to see if we may suit working together.
If we both decide to go ahead, we will have a block of four sessions. After the initial four, we can then discuss whether you would like to continue. I work by paying in block of four sessions each time.
