Music and Imagery Therapy

What is Music and Imagery Therapy?

Music and Imagery Therapy combines elements of talking therapy with music-listening and creative processing using art materials.

This therapy supports you to explore difficulties and challenges in your life, and also to build inner resources and strengths to enable you to manage stress and difficult situations more effectively. It may bring new insights and understanding of patterns or challenges in your life, and enhance emotional wellbeing and self-worth.

How does it work?

During a session, I will support you to select an experience to focus upon, usually from recent memory, and then together we will choose a piece of music to listen to that helps you connect more deeply with the feelings associated with this experience. Breathing awareness is used to help the process, and you are invited to express yourself creatively, while listening to the music, using materials like coloured pastels on paper. Reflecting on the experience together afterwards can allow new insights and understanding to emerge. You can use your own music, or music from my selection of music, and the music can be of any style or genre.

Who can it help?

Music and Imagery Therapy can be beneficial for people with a wide variety of needs, including anxiety and depression, stress and burn out, relationship issues, loss and bereavement and low self-esteem. It can also be used as a tool for personal or spiritual development, to help you understand yourself more deeply. No previous experience with music or art is needed, only a willingness to use these methods to explore your feelings and experiences.

Music and Imagery Sessions

I am qualified in Supportive Music and Imagery Therapy and able to book appointments for people seeking this approach, which is focused on building inner strengths and resources, that can help you to have more resilience in your life.

I have nearly completed training in stage two of Music and Imagery training, focused on exploring issues and tensions within your life, as well as supportive elements. I anticipate being able to offer sessions in Music and Imagery therapy - both supportive and issue-focused, from around December. Please do get in touch to register interest.

No particular previous experience with music or art is needed in order to take part, only a willingness to explore using these methods.

 

Examples of Images created through Music and Imagery...