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Finding A Voice: The Power of Individual Music Therapy
Music has an uncanny ability to tap into our emotions, offering solace, sparking memories, and even helping us process complex feelings.
At Whale Song Music Psychotherapy, we believe in the power of music to facilitate personal growth and enhance well-being. We offer individualised music therapy sessions tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual.
How Individual Music Therapy Can Benefit You:
- Emotional Expression and Processing: Music provides a powerful medium for exploring and understanding emotions. Through creating, listening, or moving to music, individuals can tap into and process feelings that may be difficult to express verbally.
- Developing Healthy Coping Mechanisms: Life can be challenging, and everyone encounters periods of stress, anxiety, or difficult transitions. Music therapy equips individuals with creative and engaging coping strategies, utilizing music to manage stress, regulate emotions, and navigate life’s ups and downs.
- Empowering Self-Expression and Communication: For some, expressing oneself can be a challenge. Music therapy utilizes musical creativity as a tool for self-expression, fostering confidence and communication skills in a supportive and non-judgmental environment.
Our experienced music therapists work collaboratively with each individual to develop a personalised approach, creating a safe and encouraging space for exploration and growth.
Take the first step towards a healthier, more expressive you. Contact us to learn more about individual music therapy and schedule a consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome to our FAQ section, where you can find quick and comprehensive answers to the most commonly asked questions about our services. We’ve extended our section to provide even more valuable insights into our offerings.
Music therapy is a psychological therapy delivered by a qualified music therapist. Sessions can include using music improvisation, songs and activities to achieve social, emotional and physical results. More information about music therapy can be found on the British Association of Music Therapy website: www.bamt.org
We believe that music is a powerful communication tool that can be used to explore personal feelings and emotions safely. Music therapy can help people whose lives are impacted by disability, mental or physical ill-health by providing a safe and supportive environment that allows people to express creatively and freely the feelings and thoughts they would usually find the most confusing and difficult to think or talk about.
To access our services, the first step is to complete a referral form here. Once we have received your referral form we will be in touch to discuss next steps. If you are an organisation that would like to partner with us to run a music therapy project or deliver services at your site please contact us here
At Whale Song Music Therapy C.I.C. we are committed to making music therapy as accessible as possible. Any surplus or profits raised from company activities are placed directly back into the company to provide free therapy to those who cannot afford it, we work hard to ensure that our rates stay as low as possible. We offer subsidised rates to some statutory and voluntary sector organisations, funding permitting and are committed to always having a limited number of free group and individual sessions available to Waltham Forest residents.
Individual sessions are charged at £65 per session and we recommend weekly sessions for at least 12 weeks. Please get in touch for our group session and day rates or to find out about our free sessions here
All of our current open group services can be found here.
Sessions are led by a HCPC registered qualified music therapist. Instruments and voice will be used by the therapist to encourage expression through music, this includes responding to body language, movements and emotions. Through individual or group work a therapeutic relationship will be built to improve wellbeing by supporting self-expression and communication.
Yes! You do not need any trained musical skill to access music therapy, the therapist will provide a space for you to explore the instruments in your own way and engage with the music in whichever way makes you feel comfortable.