Dan Bramhall

(he/him)

“Music provides us with such a unique tool for supporting our clients to express how they feel. And this capacity to feel emotionally connected to the music being made is something everybody always has, whether they have learning difficulties, are mental health service users, suffered brain injury, or experienced something in their life they need to come to terms with.” 

Dan Bramhall, MTW MT

Dan qualified as a music therapist in 2003 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Prior to that, he obtained a degree in Linguistics at UMIST, before going on to work as Senior Support Worker for a care company in Liverpool helping adults with learning difficulties to live independently.

Dan joined Music Therapy Works immediately after qualifying, and enjoys the varied work opportunities the company provides – from music therapy in nurseries, to working in special schools with young people with multiple learning difficulties; from interacting with young adults with autism, to developing the self-confidence of teenagers with impaired sight.

Dan’s musicianship is strongly informed by his pop and rock background, and he’s comfortable improvising songs with clients around conventional Verse-Chorus song structures in a wide variety of popular styles. Rap, 50s rock and roll, cheesy Europop, dance music – you name it, he’s had a client want to play music like it!

Along with his clinical work, Dan has led music therapy training events for academic institutions and the public: from 1 day awareness raising workshops, to 10 week experiential courses for healthcare professionals. For 6 years he was also the Visiting Music Therapy Lecturer at the Music Department of Birmingham University.