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Educational Settings

CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Educational Settings

CLINICAL EXPERTISE

MTW therapists bring to each session their clinical knowledge and understanding of neurology, cognition, communication, development, socialisation skills and emotional well-being needs. MTW therapists share a focus on psychotherapeutic approaches which informs every aspect of our work and allows us to provide a multi-layered intervention.

Music therapy constructs a safe, consistent and predictable setting to attain non-musical therapeutic goals. Yet it is infinitely flexible; changing with the client from one moment to the next in order to match the individual’s reactions and support their feelings, memories or behaviours.

Shared musical experiences using rhythm, melody or harmony can be immediate, organising, motivating and thrilling; establishing trust, exploring relationships and creating bridges where previously these connections have not been possible.

Our strategies are informed by both our many years of experience and our ongoing commitment to CPD ensuring that the team remains strongly connected with current music therapy research. We use a wide variety of live music, genres and instruments whilst constantly observing the client’s responses and adjusting our music to meet their needs. Singing and playing in a session can be the experience that ultimately sets the client on a path towards transforming their lives for the better.

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

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