Claire Hope is a Music therapist and musician. She has worked with creative professionals experiencing difficulties including:
Performance anxiety
Trauma
Stress
Depression, including post-natal depression
Relationship difficulties
Communication disorders
Bereavement
Fertility issues/miscarriage
Low self-esteem
She can help performers prepare for auditions, introduce techniques to 'free up' musicians having difficulty improvising, and teach breathing techniques.
Claire is very experienced working with families and children, covering a wide range of needs including autism, adoption, mental health, parent-baby, profound and multiple learning difficulties and behavioural difficulties. She is particularly interested in attachment and draws on psychodynamic and developmental theory.
Dr Stella Compton provides Integrative, cognitive analytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy and now walk talk and equine assisted therapy. Stella studied at the Royal Academy of Music and worked as a performer for many years before training as a Music Therapist. Having worked in the NHS for 20 years as a Head of Arts Therapies and Clinical Research Lead.
Stella provides private individually tailored time-limited or longer -term therapies for performers from all areas of the music industry.. Stella has helped a wide range of clients including people concerned about eating disorders, body dysmorphophobia, sexuality, bereavement, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, job loss, parents caring for with children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), as well as people with personality disorders and offenders in secure treatment settings.
She now provides a blended programme, with on-line as well as in- person appointments at Guys Hospital, London Bridge and for the north of England and Scotland at the Nutwood Medical Centre LA11 7DJ ( easily accessible by train). To these services Stella has developed individual programmes of gently paced nature based walk-talk and equine assisted therapy. She is now focusing on the treatment of depression, performance and generalised anxiety.
As of April 2024 Stella will be providing therapeutic retreats for people who have suffered trauma. For details please refer to website.
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
Marianne has worked professionally as a singer and singing teacher and has personal experience of touring and work-related stressors. Her North London Music Therapy practice provides specialist services for musicians, creative artists and others. She can help with problems including anxiety, depression, stress, vocalists' issues, performance anxiety, interpersonal dynamics, family and health issues, eating disorders, PTSD, OCD, adults and adolescents. Group and individual therapy is available.
Marianne qualified as a music therapist from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2013 and received further training in psychodynamic psychotherapy from the Tavistock Centre in 2018. Marianne is a registered supervisor with the British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) and was recently appointed as BAMT's Vice Chair of Trustees. She specialises in setting up new posts, with a role as Music Therapy Outreach and Enterprise Tutor for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Max Ryz is a HCPC registered Music Therapist and a member of the British Association of Music Therapy (BAMT). He has wide ranging experience providing assessment, individual and group music therapy for adults, children and adolescents spanning across NHS, Third Sector, private health care and school settings.
Max has worked with a number of musicians and performers, helping manage problems including Depression & Anxiety, Psychosomatic Disorders, Relational Difficulties, Early Trauma, Personality Disorder and Psychosis. As a musician himself he is a pianist, composer and accompanist.
Max completed a clinical music therapy masters at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre following a degree in composition at Trinity College of Music. He has also undertaken subsequent trainings at the Anna Freud Centre and the International Centre for Arts Psychotherapies, acquiring additional expertise in other psychotherapeutic approaches, including Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) and Mentalisation- Based Therapy (MBT).
Max currently holds a position at the Central and North West London NHS Trust where he works with adults who have complex mental health conditions, such as depression, personality disorders and psychosis. In his private practice he is also seeing children and adolescents whose needs include developmental, communication and emotional difficulties as well as autism. Max adopts Music Therapy & Talking Therapies: Psychodynamic & Psychoanalytic Based Approaches, Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) and Dynamic Interpersoanl Therapy (DIT).
Alongside his therapeutic work Max gives clinical supervision within the NHS and is an accredited supervisor with BAMT. He regularly facilitates workshops and seminars for interdisciplinary teams in health care settings and psychotherapy training provides and he is published in the British Journal of Music Therapy.
Motoko Hayata is a Music Therapist who has helped many artists and creative professionals with issues such as emotional and behavioural problems, global delay, mild/severe/profound and multiple disability, autism, dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral palsy, difficult life situations and transitions, relationship difficulties, stress, depression, anxiety, emotional exploration. She has practised as a Music Therapist since 1999, and qualified as a Music & Imagery Therapist in 2018. She is currently completing the training in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM Postgraduate Advanced Diploma) & Music Breathing (MB Postgraduate Advanced Certificate). She has supervised MA students for Music Therapy training, and her work has been presented at conferences in many countries. She has co-authored a chapter with John Strange in the book, Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice: Roles, Relationships, Challenges (2017).
The team at NLMT includes BAPAM-registered Music Therapists Marianne Rizkallah and Rivka Gottlieb. NLMT provide specialist services for musicians, creative artists and others, helping with a wide range of problems including anxiety, depression, stress, vocalists' issues, performance anxiety, interpersonal dynamics, family and health issues, eating disorders, PTSD, adults and adolescents. Group and individual therapy is available.
NLMT have also recently opened a South London clinic in Blackheath.
"We’re creative. We’ve seen countless times how the musical element of our psychotherapy can transform awareness and understanding of feelings. You don’t have to be able to play any of the instruments available in sessions (although if you can play that’s of course fine!) - just be prepared to experience that the music you make, alongside your words, will help you communicate your true feelings.
We believe the past informs the present. Research shows our worlds are shaped by our earliest experiences. How we relate to other people, how our reactions differ in one situation to another, all come from the first blueprints of the relationships we create from birth. Bringing your past experiences into your therapy we believe is the best way of illuminating what’s happening in your present - the two can’t work without each other.
We focus on your mental health. Whether you have a diagnosis, are living with a long-term illness or simply need help making sense of aspects of your life and life experiences, we find that actively working on your mental health is the best way to improve your quality of life. Our music therapists, who are trained to Masters level and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, have experience working with people living with anxiety, trauma, autism, stroke, dementia, OCD and many other clinical backgrounds. What unites our approach is the belief that mental health-first work helps you understand your particular background best."
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Rivka Gottlieb trained at the Royal College of Music and The Juilliard School as a concert harpist, prior to qualifying as a Music Therapist. As a harpist, Rivka has had orchestral experience, worked as a studio recording artist for film and TV soundtracks, and performed with various bands. "I understand first hand the pressure that performers are under. In addition, as a harp teacher, I have found my therapeutic skills extremely valuable in helping to prepare students struggling with the mental challenge of exams and performance anxiety".
Rivka is experienced in working with musicians, actors, musical theatre performers and performing arts students. She can help with issues relating to anxiety, depression, performance anxiety, stress, interpersonal dynamics, trauma, PTSD, Autism, communication difficulties and eating disorders.
MA in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London 2019
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, The Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families, London 2018
The Foundation & Post-Foundation Course, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London 2018
MA in Music Therapy, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
2016
Sujaree Kuenghakit is a BPC and HCPC registered music therapist and psychotherapist offering private therapy sessions in London, Marlow and online. Sujaree has also been a violinist with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and has worked as a Senior Psychological Therapist & Counsellor at the Royal Academy of Music. Her experience includes work in the NHS mental health services, education and psychological research. Sujaree implements contemporary and psychodynamic psychotherapy methods where she tailors her approach to the client's specific needs. Therapy sessions are designed to strengthen confidence and assist in the healing process. Sujaree offers sessions in both English and Thai.
Sujaree's main areas of expertise include anxiety & depression, eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, body image disturbance (body dysmorphic disorder), addiction, relationship difficulties, bereavement & terminal illness, culture shock & homesickness, education & career counselling.
In addition to her psychotherapy work, Sujaree is also a certified yoga instructor. "Meditation is part of my daily practice and I believe in its transformative power. I aim to help you find your own unique meditation techniques that work for you".