Maria trained in music performance at the Royal Academy of Music (cello) and has worked as a freelance musician, teacher (currently at The Academy of Contemporary Music) and composer. She is a qualified music therapist of more than 20 years’ experience, and is a specialist in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), offering sessions in London and Stroud, Gloucestershire as well as online.
GIM is a type of receptive music psychotherapy designed to explore unconscious processes, and can help with developing inner resources and resilience, by strengthening the connection to the client’s internal world. GIM can support people struggling with depression, anxiety, and performance anxiety, and encourages relaxation skills whilst challenging unhealthy thought processes. Maria is also qualified in the Music and Care approach - a modification of GIM - which can be used where there are traumas or severe mental health issues to help with stabilisation, before progressing to deeper levels of work.
Maria has experience working with PTSD, CPTSD, depression and anxiety, and with people experiencing acute and recovery phases of mental illness. She has helped clients manage alcohol misuse, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, and also has expertise with people with living with dementia, and learning and physical disabilities.
More information about GIM can be found here: https://www.musictherapyreimagined.com/information