Supervision details
I have been supervising newly qualified and experienced music therapists for over twenty year and can offer individual, pair or group supervision in the following areas :
Babies (and their parent/carer): closed and open groups, or just mother and baby.
Adopted children, children and teenagers with autism (age 3 – 16), EBD, PMLD, cerebral palsy, learning difficulties, developmental delay, children and adults in hospice care.
Adults with learning difficulties; self-referred adults with depression, personality disorders, elective mutism, relationship difficulties, issues with low self-esteem; students on art therapy training and music therapy students on training courses.
I completed my music therapy training at Nordoff-Robbins in 2001 and completed a 3 year MSc in child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy at Birkbeck (July 2024). This recent training involved working within CAMHS and mainstream secondary schools and has enriched my theoretical thinking within my work and in the context of supervision.
My experience has been always to work with the context and to consider organisational dynamics, psychodynamic and developmental theory. I have experience of working for over twelve years in a music therapy clinic as a music therapist, tutor on the evening introduction course for music therapy, supervisor and workshop leader. I am a lead music therapist at a special needs school for children and teenagers with autism, EBD, learning difficulties and PMLD and have been involved in setting up many projects in the community. I have also worked as an experiential group leader for students on music therapy training. I offer one-off supervision or on a regular basis according to need. Fees according to BAMT rates.
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Accredited register membership
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