Practitioner Directory

Understands performers' complex eyesight needs including visual fields and working distances, and reading notation while also focusing on the working environment and fellow performers. Part of the team at Allegro Optical, Meltham, Holmfirth.

Amy Willshire is a Dramatherapist experienced working with performance professionals including actors, movement practitioners, playwrights and puppeteers. She has personal experience as a director and writer of plays and lighting and sound technician, and is passionate about using the arts to aid healing.

Amy has expertise helping clients who have experienced trauma, anxiety, depression, and she can help performers address Roling and Deroling (including the distinction of me and not me). She has worked with adults with addictions and substance dependency, with older adults with dementia and cognitive loss and with clients who have experienced trauma, abuse, trafficking, bereavement, family separation, homelessness, PTSD, and eating disorders.

She works with adults and children, individuals, groups and families, using a range of therapeutic approaches, adapted to meet each client’s needs, with a specific interest in how a deeper understanding of “who am I” can help align thoughts, feelings, actions and sense of purpose. She uses techniques informed by somatic experiencing (how trauma is held in the body) and internal family systems (internal conflicts including self sabotage behaviours).

She is interested in attachment and working with families to strengthen bonds and relationships. This includes families who have suffered a bereavement, families with depression or anxiety, reunited families (e.g. following incarceration or migration), family breakdown, family assessment centres, contact centres, children in care, adopted families

She has experience working affirmingly with LGBT+ clients and with clients from a range of religious and cultural backgrounds.

Andrew Steed is an experienced physiotherapist treating musicians referred via the BMI Hendon Hospital Adult Musicians' Upper Limb Clinic. He is also experienced working with actors and dancers. Conditions treated include work related upper limb disorders, rotator cuff injuries, shoulder impingements, scapula dyskinesia, cervical radiculopathies, lumbar radiculopathies, low back pain, lower limb muscular strains and tears, tendinopathies, postural, biomechanical dysfunction and Bells Palsy. Based at BMI Hendon and Syon Hospitals. Andrew can see patients via NHS Choose and Book at Hendon if they are referred by Mr Mark Phillips from the Hendon Musicians' Clinic. Home and workplace visits also possible. Contact via email or BMI Hospitals.

As a dancer and clinician, Ann Coxhead has many years experience of the mechanics of the body, working with singers, actors, dancers and musicians. Her services for performance professionals include Osteopathy, laryngeal manipulation to treat muscle tension dysphonia in singers and professional voice users, breathing techniques, and Floor-Barre work.

Osteopathic diagnosis and treatment is available for a wide range of medical conditions including the spine and all peripheral joints. Treatments are tailored to your specific injuries. Observing and accessing anatomical and postural technique. Including hip knee and ankle alignment at the barre for Dancers. Making tissue specific diagnosis. Hypermobility, scoliosis and differences in speed of growth in young dancers can all be managed. Integrating the injury into the dynamics of the whole body and building self confidence. Using deep soft tissue and muscle energy techniques, facial release, articulation and manipulation if required. Rectifying bio-mechanical faults helps to increase circulation, venous supply and lymphatic drainage speeding up healing time.

Ann is a member of the Osteopathic Performing Arts Care Association (OPACA), the British Voice Association and One Dance UK.

Beverley Hills has worked as a therapist with many clients across the arts. A creative with 35 years' experience working freelance, Beverley is also a careers advisor for Equity and BECTU.

"My background is in the creative arena of film, stage and TV, this means I have a wealth of experience to do with anxiety, panic attacks, rejection, fear as well as bereavement, family, relationships, sexual issues, addiction and more. I also counsel couples and troubled teens. My diverse career means I've a wider than average skillset for you to call upon. Trained in many different theories, I believe one type doesn't fit all because isn't every person different? As a counsellor of colour I find Black, Asian and minority ethnic clients relate closely to me. I also work with transitioning and LGBTQ+ clients. A member of the BACP, I work within their ethical framework; confidentiality is assured at all times".

Performing arts and sports specialist physiotherapy, acupuncture, specialist vocal physiotherapy. Has experience working at BAPAM and in her own practice with many creative professionals and students.

Cathy Gordon is a jaw (temporomandibular joint), head and neck and vestibular specialist with experience in the management of all musculoskeletal upper and lower limb and spinal conditions in adults and children. She is experienced treating musicians and singers from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and performance professionals around the North West. Cathy uses manual therapy, acupuncture, and personal exercise programmes to support injury recovery and prevention. She is a keen violinist and pianist and plays in several orchestras and chamber groups in the Manchester area. She is based at Romiley Physio, Stockport.

Chris Madden is a counsellor and psychotherapist whose background in the music industry gives him an informed understanding of the sector. His therapeutic experience within the creative community includes supporting many clients from the music, live events and other creative industries such as musicians/vocalists, actors, and production/technical crew. He can help address a broad range of issues including relationship problems/difficulties, anxiety, stress, trauma and depression, problematic alcohol and substance/drug behaviour, crisis intervention. Chris uses an integrative therapeutic approach. He is trained in Person-centred / relational approaches / Solution Focused therapy.

Chris has considerable experience of working with students in university settings and is the lead counsellor/wellbeing officer at a university. He is experienced in working with Autistic Spectrum Disorder/Asperger Syndrome and SEND diagnoses.

He is an accredited Mental Health First Aid (England) Instructor, a therapeutic service provider for the charity Music Support, a member of Help Musicians UK charity’s Health and Welfare Advisory panel and Chair of the Board of Trustees with MAP Charity, a Leeds based charity offering creative programmes for young people at risk of exclusion from mainstream education.

Prior to retraining as a therapist, Chris worked in the music industries for over 20 years.

Counsellor and Psychotherapist specialising in addiction treatment. Chula worked as a professional musician before becoming a clinical consultant, trainer and psychotherapist with expertise in helping people overcome alcohol and substance misuse. Consults for Music Support, Steps2Recovery and privately.

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.

Clarissa Hardaker is a London-based Speech Therapist, Voice and Accent Coach, highly specialised in voice and vocal rehabilitation with actors, singers and professional voice users.

She offers skilled assessment and treatment for people with speech, language, communication and swallowing disorders. This includes but is not limited to adults with speech and articulation disorders and voice disorders.

Her MFA in Voice Studies has given Clarissa the skills and qualifications of a voice coach and teacher and she specialises in helping elite voice users with breath, phonation, resonance, and articulation. Online or face-to-face sessions are available, tailored to your needs.

Problems and conditions helped with include:

Vocal nodules, cysts and polyps
Spasmodic dysphonia
Muscle tension dysphonia
Dysarthria and apraxia
Vocal trauma or loss
Lisps and stutters
Poor articulation and clarity
Accent softening and dialect coaching

Clarissa has experience working with trans clients who wish to work on their voice.

Clarissa is a singer and non-professional actor herself and has worked with over 100 clients in the performing arts and has conducted research into the importance of providing voice training for teachers as standard as part of initial teacher training.

Counselling and psychotherapy with an integrative approach. Counsellor and specialist psychotherapist at the Royal Academy of Music. Can help with problems relating to bereavement, depression, employment difficulties, health-related worries, women's health, pain management, identity problems, relationships, sexual identity, performance anxiety.

Has been practising Alexander Technique for over 30 years. Well aware of performance technique and ergonomic approaches. Works with instrumentalists, singers, dancers and other performers in Leigh-on-Sea, Chelmsford and Brentwood.

Director of Alexander Technique and Teacher at the Royal Academy of Music since 1981, who also teaches at various locations around North London, including the Laboratory Spa in Muswell Hill.

Dr Alex Willner offers both short and long-term psychological therapy depending on the nature of the problem, individual needs, hopes and expectations, and the approach adopted, providing a responsive service that focuses on unique, individual needs to find a way forward and is dedicated to making a difference. Psychodynamic therapy is typically integrated with a focused, more behavioural approach directed at symptom alleviation.

As a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, Chartered Psychologist, HCPC Registered and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Dr Willner has practiced for over 20 years, working mainly with adults across a wide spectrum of emotional and psychological difficulties.

Expertise and experience to help with a wide range of issues including:

• Eating disorders including Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa and Binge-eating
• Obesity
• Relationship difficulties
• Bereavement, grief, loss or separation
• Low self-esteem and lack of confidence
• Low mood or depression
• Anxiety and stress
• Coping with adjustments and life transitions
• Work-related concerns

Dr Amal Lad is a GP and musician treating general and performance specific physical and mental health problems. This would include depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal pain and all problems normally assessed and treated in general practice. He is passionate about finding new ways to support people working in the performing arts. He is also musician and he has composed music for a number of projects including film, theatre and released his personal music on streaming platforms which can be found on his website. Currently, Amal is preparing the release of new experimental music, while continuing his work in medicine.

“As a musician, I have a deep understanding and appreciation for mental and physical wellbeing in order to be able to create music. Creativity empowers me and is needed for personal wellbeing.”

Amal is British Indian and a trustee of South Asian Health Foundation (SAHF) – a charity addressing health inequalities in the South Asian community, where he is involved in the SAHF fellowship and community engagement working group.

BAPAM Assessing Clinician and NHS GP experienced advising performing arts professionals and students about all work/study-related problems. Safeguarding lead for BAPAM.

Dr Anne Mitchener is a highly experienced Spinal Neurosurgeon and executive coach (work performance). She practises privately at the Schoen Clinic, Wigmore Street, London and at the BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital where NHS patients can be referred by their NHS GP using the Choose & Book eReferral system.

Dr Mitchener sees performing artists for assessment, advice and conservative treatment measures for back and spinal pain, sciatica, degenerative spinal conditions, pain management, carpal tunnel syndrome. She performs spinal surgery for NHS and private patients offering a complete outpatient and inpatient service. She is a member of the British Association of Spinal Surgeons, Society of British Neurological Surgeons with over twenty years’ experience of spinal surgery.

Clinical Interests

• Cervical Spine microdiscectomy and fusion
• Cervical Disc replacement
• Cervical laminectomy/foraminotomy
• Lumbar Spinal laminectomy/foraminotomy
• Lumbar microdiscectomy
• All spine degenerative conditions - operative and injection
• Carpal Tunnel Decompression

Dr Sriskantharajah Arun-Castro is a GP with a background in Emergency Medicine and considerable experience of medical provision at major festivals, concerts and sporting events.

He has worked as a doctor in pre-hospital care teams at Glastonbury, Reading and Download Festivals as well as London Stadium.

As a festival doctor he became more aware of the physical and mental strains experienced by performing artists ranging from fatigue to acute pain and stress reactions on tour. This experience piqued his interest in the wellbeing of performers and lead to his involvement with BAPAM.

He has experience in musculoskeletal health and continues to work in elite sport providing medical cover for professional rugby and motor racing at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit .

He is familiar with the assessment and initial management of issues such as repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, upper and lower limb musculoskeletal conditions, insomnia, anxiety and depression, adjustment reactions, acute and chronic pain management and assessment of fatigue.

During lockdown 2020, Arun contributed as an editor and chapter author to the Music Industry Therapists Collective’s Touring & Mental Health Manual http://musicindustrytherapists.com .

As a hobby he hosts the The Roadie Medic Podcast that takes a look at the merging scenes of live music, festivals, pre-hospital care and public health.

He is British Asian (Sri Lankan) and is interested in diversity, world music & second and third generation migrant experiences. He is an NHS GP for patients registered at Victoria Medical Centre in Pimlico, and a BAPAM Assessing GP.

Travel Health, Health Screens, Vaccines and Occupational Health at Your Excellent Health Service, Harley Street.

Dr Easmon trained at St George's. London. He did his elective in Ghana (his country of birth) and has since worked with, among others, MERLIN, Raleigh International and Save the Children in Rwanda, and ECHO in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. With the Foreign Office he has visited Egypt, Israel, Tunisia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines.

His route in to travel medicine and public health was through medical evacuations, working abroad and stints at the Hospital for Tropical Disease's travel clinic. He enjoyed several years on the board of the British Travel Health Association and was one of the first UK medical practitioners to have obtained the International Certificate in Travel Health (CTH) from the International Society of Travel Health. In 2008 Charlie became a member of the new Faculty of Travel Medicine - MFTM RCPS (Glasg).

Charlie's interest in mental health in the workplace came through his occupational health work in which he saw the consequences of poor work environments, late referral, lack of mental health support resources or poor management.

Dr Christine Mimnagh is a GP with extensive experience working with performance professionals. From 1990 - 2018 she was the medical adviser to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She is an NHS GP at Wingate Medical Centre (only patients registered at the practice can be seen here), and a GP for Babylon Health, where she is the Gender Identity Services Clinical Champion.

Dr Fozia Hamid combines her clinical expertise and interest in music and the performing arts in her work at BAPAM, where she advises professional and student performers and creative practitioners about a wide spectrum of physical and mental health concerns relating to their work. She is an NHS GP based in London.

Dr Hara Trouli is a highly experienced musculoskeletal doctor who has worked extensively with professionals and student performers. She offers diagnostic assessments and advice for all musculoskeletal performance-related problems. A keen piano player,

In 2011 Hara joined the first Masters degree in Performing Arts Medicine at University College London and graduated with distinction in 2012. Her MSc Research Thesis focused on the Muscular Contraction in the Arms of Pianists. Since 2015 she is appointed by UCL as the Course Lead where she runs and develops the Masters, Diploma and Certificate postgraduate studies. She is involved in multiple academic activities and she also organises the PAM DAY once every year at UCL.

She is a clinician for the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine and has developed a Musicians' Clinic in London where she works together with of a multidisciplinary team looking after musicians' injuries.

Dr James Thing is an expert in non-surgical management of hand, wrist and elbow pathology. He has helped many performance professionals with problems including osteoarthritis, De Quervain's tenosynovitis, Trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, capsulitis, impingement syndromes, pain and fracture. He has a special interest in musculoskeletal ultrasound and provides ultrasound guided therapeutic injections and intervention on the NHS and privately.

Private patients requiring ultrasound-guided, musculoskeletal injections can be referred to the rapid-access, consultant-led Joint Injection Clinic at Brook Surgery, in Golders Green. Consultations are also available at Pure Sports Medicine, Canary Wharf, and the Highgate Hospital.

Dr Thing also undertakes a weekly NHS musculoskeletal ultrasound/radiology list at the Royal London Hospital (Barts Health).

Alexander Technique teacher with experience helping people avoid and manage musculoskeletal injuries and pain. Rehabilitation. Hypermobility. Maintaining stable practice regimes. Woodwind instruments. Guitar. Special interest in performance anxiety and pre-performance nerves. Works at the RWCMD, Cardiff and privately in Bristol.

GP and approved Doctor for Maritime and Coastguard Agency and various Cruise Lines providing occupational medicals for seafarers including performers. Experienced in providing both occupational and general practice services to performance professionals.

Dr Kajan Kanagasabai graduated from St George’s Medical School, London in 1998. He has worked in various hospitals with medical specialities such as General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Women’s medicine and Mental Health. He has been practising as a GP since 2003 and became a partner at Mount Avenue Surgery in Brentwood in 2005.

He has extensive experience in minor surgery having provided this service for his large practice population consisting of 14,000 patients for over 15 years. He regularly updates and audits his service to maintain his high quality of service he provides as the lead Doctor in Minor Surgery.

General Adult Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr Lavadino has supported arts clients with problems including anxiety, panic, trauma and PTSD, ADHD, ASD, body image disorders and unhealthy eating habits, sleep problems. When appropriate, she may combine a medication plan with a range of psychotherapeutic interventions, including Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and EMDR. I also provide psychological support and intervention based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Systemic Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy principles. She is a pianist with a special interest in helping people working in performance arts. She is based in central London at 55 Harley Street.

NHS GP and Medical Adviser to the South Bank Sinfonia.

Dr McKavanagh is an NHS and BAPAM GP who holds BAPAM clinics in Liverpool and Manchester and helps artists and creative practitioners with a range of physical and mental health concerns. She is a graduate of the UCL Performing Arts Medicine MSc programme.

She is an experienced Doctor who has worked in the NHS for 35 years, and also a performing musician who has performed in solo recitals, and worked as an accompanist for ABRSM and LCM music examinations. She holds an LTCL in Piano Performance and has played violin, viola, clarinet, celtic harp and vibraphone in the past. She have also sung soprano in a chamber choir for the past 20 years.

Special interests include disorders affecting instrumental musicians, particularly overuse musculoskeletal and neurological injuries, focal musicians dystonias and cognitive, hearing and other sensory conditions,sexual and reproductive health and travel medicine.

Dr Naomi Brecker is a practicing Consultant Occupational Physician, with a wide experience and skill set that is relevant to performing arts medicine. She is a graduate of the UCL Performing Arts Medicine programme. She is an accredited Consultant in Public Health Medicine, with training and experience in epidemiology, audit and evaluation of service provision and infectious disease control in the community. She has a special interest in occupational health assessment and management of performing artists. Many of the problems are psychological or musculoskeletal, and she is experienced in assessing and advising about work-related modifications, rehabilitation and signposting to treatment services.

NHS GP at Paddington Green Health Centre. Many Royal Academy of Music students are registered at the practice and they are approved by HMUK to complete Emerging Musicians Health Scheme forms. Dr Purssell is very experienced helping performing arts professionals and students, and has worked as a GP at BAPAM.

Has worked with many performance professionals dealing with confidence, post performance anxiety, creative work related issues, as well as a range of problems including trauma, bereavement, depression, eating disorders and stress. Pamela, works with adults, young people, couples and families. She is also a professional music teacher.

NHS and private GP and Occupational Health Physician who has worked at BAPAM London as an Assessing Clinician advising performing arts professionals and students about all work/study-related problems. AMABO Medical Adviser to the Philharmonia Orchestra. Keen clarinet player who has played and toured with orchestras including the World Doctors Orchestra.

Dr Pippa Wheble is an NHS and BAPAM GP, and a graduate of the Performing Arts Medicine MSc programme at UCL. She has special interests in anxiety management and breathing techniques. Her other interests in the context of General Practice include holistic and integrated health care, occupational health, women's health, ophthalmology. She is a keen singer and instrumentalist, playing violin, viola, saxophone and piano, and she has also trained in dance. She is a BAPAM assessing clinician and the lead facilitator for our Community Drop In peer support sessions.

Ross trained in music from the age of 8 playing the clarinet, continuing on to degree level before working in commercial radio production. Since training as a chiropractor, he has helped dancers, actors and musicians, including piano players, guitarists, and multi-instrumentalists. They have mostly presented with low back or neck pain from overuse or poor posture.

NHS GP at the Museum Practice, London, where a number of performing arts professionals are among her patients. Only NHS patients registered at the practice can be seen here. Dr Chua has also worked at BAPAM as an Assessing Clinician advising performing arts professionals and students about all work/study-related problems.

Clinical Psychotherapy and Music Therapy. Integrative, cognitive analytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music and worked as a performer for many years before training as a Music Therapist. Worked in the NHS for 20 years as head of Arts Therapies and Clinical Research Lead. Works with performers from all media. Stella has worked as a therapist with a very wide range of clients including people concerned about eating disorders, sexuality, bereavement, trauma, 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 practises at Guys Hospital, and privately in London Bridge and Crouch End.

Private Consultations: therapy sessions, clinical and research supervision continue to be available nationally and internationally via the zoom app.

NHS GP and Medical Adviser to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Fabi Waisbort is a highly experienced Osteopath and Pilates instructor whose background as a ballet dancer has led to him working extensively in the performing arts. His clients include people working in musical theatre, classical ballet, vocalists and professional voice users (singers, actors), street dance, tap, circus, puppeteers, stage management, musicians, conductors and actors (stage and film).

Conditions treated include dance injuries, sports injuries, musicians’ injuries and pain, vocal issues, neurological problems (sciatica, migraine, tension headache), chronic injuries.

Fabi provides Osteopathic treatment (structural, vocal and cranial), pre-school screening, pre-contractual screening, rehab exercises, advice during auditions (where he takes part in auditions to advise the creative team), and lectures (anatomy for performers, Healthier Dancer program, stage management physical safety).

Integrative counsellor and psychotherapist who has worked with hundreds of performers running the counselling service at one of the bigger London Colleges for the Performing Arts for several years, as well as working with many adult performers referred via BAPAM. Experienced in working with panic attacks, performance anxiety, generalised anxiety and low self-esteem but also a range of other psychological issues common to performers including perfectionism, confused identity, repressed emotions, distress due to physical injury and eating disorders. Offers discount to BAPAM referrals. Counselling rooms in Hove, Brighton and London (on request). Also offers online counselling. Please visit www.fionamacbeth.co.uk to see latest blogs.

Provides physiotherapy, massage therapy and acupuncture. Specialist in dance medicine, musicians' musculoskeletal related injuries, and professional voice users with laryngeal tension and voice problems. Part of the team at Complete Physio.

George Tyros is a highly experienced clinical physiotherapist specialising in musculoskeletal, sports and geriatric physiotherapy. He has been treating performers extensively since 2016, seeing many musicians from the CBSO (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) and performing arts professionals working at venues including Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Utilita Arena Birmingham and Symphony Hall plus touring dancers, strings and brass instrumentalists.

For 10 years George was the lead sports physiotherapist for the Greek Swimming Federation (KOE) and the Greek Olympic team (swimming department) where he overlooked the prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries in elite swimmers. He saw that performers share many of the same attributes and benefit from specialised care from informed health care professionals who understands their specific physical and psychosocial support needs.

He has a special interest in Geriatrics particularly the 80+ group and possesses substantial experience with the pre-and post-operative management of orthopaedic procedures such as joint replacements.

He works with Isaac Tyros (also listed in the BAPAM Directory) at Edgbaston Physiotherapy.

Hannah Stoyel is a performance psychologist working with performers and athletes in London and online around the world. She has specific expertise in performance anxiety, building confidence, body image, self-esteem and disordered eating. She can provide support before auditions and major performances, and make a wide impact on overall mental wellbeing as well as mental preparation for performance.

Hannah uses an integrative approach with an emphasis on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Hannah has a background as an athlete and coach in competitive gymnastics and swimming and is also currently a PhD candidate at University College London (UCL), researching athletes and eating disorders.

Ian Michie is a BACP ( British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) accredited therapist with a background in the media industry, offering short term therapy for anxiety and depression or longer Psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Ian worked as an actor for over twenty years in theatre, TV, film and radio. He has personal experience of the stresses and demands of the entertainment industry and can quickly understand the dynamics of the profession and offer insight and solutions to individuals seeking support. He works with individuals and couples and has helped creative professionals including actors, technicians, vocalists and instrumental musicians. He has worked as a therapist in various settings from an addictions unit to a busy GP practice. Whilst training as a therapist he worked for over six years at a busy residential crisis unit, which provided short-term crisis intervention for adults from all backgrounds. He is also a Critical Incident consultant offering on site support after a traumatic event.

"My approach is psychodynamic/analytical. This means gaining understanding from both the conscious and the unconscious. Sometimes we can get involved in unhelpful patterns in relationships which we are unwittingly contributing to. Psychodynamic psychotherapy enables a greater understanding of our subconscious and allows us to bring some of this ‘unknown’ material to the surface so that we can gain greater awareness and make changes. For short term work I mainly focus on the 'here and now' and together we identify the main themes that need to be looked at. Long term work involves looking at both the past and the present and exploring things on a deeper level."

Janet Wiggins is a senior physiotherapist with considerable experience treating musicians in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and dancers in numerous shows performing at Liverpool Empire.

Osteopathy, Pilates and Sports Massage practitioner with a particular interest in postural and ergonomic factors that affect the way in which the human spine works, especially in the context of dance and the performance arts. Jenefer has a background in dance and movement, plays piano and sings. She has treated instrumentalists, singers, actors and dancers (ballet, contemporary and musical theatre) and is based at Shoreham Osteopathy Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea. Please ask for Jenefer as this is a group practice.

Experienced physiotherapist working with patients including dancers, musical theatre performers, musicians, singers, conductors and theatre technicians. Can help with technical playing glitches, postural asymmetry and instability, nerve mobility problems, hypermobility and instability problems, headaches and musculoskeletal disorders associated with overuse/repetitive movements.

Physiotherapist, Jonny Grimwade, has worked within the performing arts for the last 10 years. He was the Head Therapist of Performance Medicine at Cirque du Soleil 2017-2020, and has also worked with world touring circus shows such as Briefs, circus training centres such as Aircraft Circus and children circus production companies such as Le Petite Cirque.

Specialities include: All musculoskeletal injuries, sports related injuries, manual therapy, performance technique, taping/splinting, advanced rehabilitation programmes, educating/lecturing within performance optimisation, immediate trauma care/side of stage care, workload management/Injury mitigation, injury prevention strategies, performance optimisation.

I am an Osteopath inspired by the voice and experienced helping professional voice users overcome issues related to misuse and injuries. As an Osteopath with nearly thirty years of experience, as well as being a trained opera singer, I have the skill, insight and understanding to help performing artists including singers, actors and dancers. I can help with voice problems including hoarseness, loss of vocal range, vocal fatigue and muscle tension dysphonia. I am experienced with shoulder issues as well as more typical issues such as back and neck pain, knee injuries, foot injuries, ACL injuries, mobility issues that osteopaths are trained to treat. I also have special interests in hypermobility and in hip impingement issues (cam and pincer) and have worked in facilitating diagnosis of labral tears and rehabilitating patients post operatively following hip arthroscopy intervention. Labral tears are often missed, especially in the hypermobile population, who may be more likely to experience impingement due to their increased range of movement, especially if they are dancers or acrobats and routinely flex their hip joints to the extreme.

Julie Parker taught Alexander Technique at LIPA and currently teaches at the University of York. Helps with aspects of physical well-being including: Poise, confidence, Awareness of habits that create stresses and strains, Learning to work ergonomically and prevent back pain, neck pain, headaches and repetitive strain injury, Learning to use breath to notice and regulate responses to stress, Managing pregnancy and labour with minimum pain, Getting back to balance and fitness post injury or operation. Julie is also teaches mental health and emotional intelligence skills, including mindfulness and breathing techniques. Face to face, telephone, video conferencing and email coaching. Several practice locations in York and Cumbria.

Kasia Marzyńska is a psychotherapist experienced helping a wide range of performing artists having worked for five years at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Kasia specialises in EDMR and trauma therapy and offers mindfulness based cognitive therapy.

She works with a wide range of psychological problems including: depression, anxiety, Stage fright, low self-esteem & low confidence, sexual identity and diversity, loss & bereavement, stress, bullying, racism, relationship difficulties, abuse, trauma, intergenerational trauma, PTSD and CPTSD, childhood adverse experience and neglect, anger, shame, disordered eating, chronic illness, phobias and OCD, life transitions and isolation.

Kasia offers counselling and psychotherapy short and long term; Gestalt Psychotherapy, EMDR & Trauma Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy.

Kasia speaks English, Polish and Italian.

Physiotherapist treating performance professionals and students including musicians, actors and dancers at Agile Therapy, Cardiff. Has worked with ballet dancers. Helped musicians with wrist, forearm pain and strains.

Performing arts specialist physiotherapy, specialist vocal physiotherapy, acupuncture. Extensive experience helping performing artists of all different disciplines including many West End performers with musculoskeletal problems. Expert in muscular tension in professional voice users, injury prevention and treatment in dancers, posture and musicians' health operating in The Midlands with Franklin Physiotherapy Ltd.

Kristina Kennedy is an experienced UKCP MBACP, Integrative Psychotherapist and EMDR Practitioner. In addition to helping clients through Integrative and Transpersonal psychotherapy and EMDR approaches, Kristina is an ICF PCC Transformative Coach which enables her to combine coaching and psychotherapy for those seeking a more structured Coach-Therapy approach.

I help artists, actors, musicians, dancers, singers and other creative professionals work through and overcome many of the stresses and anxieties that are natural to the industry. I work daily with clients suffering from imposter Syndrome, low self-esteem, insecurities in the industry, stage- and performance anxiety. The nature of the industry can be harsh and unstable and I feel it is incredibly important to help artists stay healthy, confident and on track with their goals. I offer a holding, professional, non-judgemental safe space where encouragement, guidance, motivation and positive mindset is practised and embodied. My work is traditional psychotherapy but also experiential and I offer mindfulness techniques and creative work if appropriate and useful during preparation and prior to performing. I offer a place where it is safe to be authentic, vulnerable and truthful.

I bring together a variety of approaches and techniques that will be specific to my work with you. Areas I frequently work with are:

Anxiety, Bereavement, Depression, Loss, Post-traumatic stress, Trauma, Expatriate and Relocation issues, Career coaching, Development coaching, Executive coaching, Life coaching, Personal development, ADD / ADHD, Cancer, Chronic fatigue, Health related issues, Cultural issues, Men’s issues, Self-esteem, Spirituality, Women’s issues, Child related issues, Relationships, Sex-related issues, Anger management, Redundancy, Stress, Work related issues.

Lauraine Leigh Klugman is an experienced Dramatherapist who works with performance professionals, students, theatre staff and dramatherapy groups. She trained in Dramatherapy in 1994 and gained an MA in Psychoanalytical Studies at The Tavistock in 2007. Her Dramatherapy and psychotherapy approach can help with difficulties including confidence, mental health diagnoses, low self esteem, family difficulties, learning difficulties, voice, movement, bullying, relationship difficulties, grief, bereavement, new parenting and isolation. She is very experienced working with children, teenagers and their parents, in schools, private practice and the NHS. She has personal experience as an Artistic Director and Drama teacher.

Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, EMDR. Expert in trauma and PTSD. Addiction, depression, eating disorders, anxiety. Stage nerves. Works with Music Support. Has worked with many artists and managers in the music industry + actors, DJs and producers. Has helped people with new found fame and being in the public eye. Previously worked in radio - marketing and events. Consults in Kensington and at the Priory, Roehampton, as well as online.

Lucy Swain has over 30 years of experience as a Speech and Language Therapist and is also a practising musician with a special interest in vocal performance, voice care and preventing health problems for professional voice users and performance students. She is also qualified in Personalised Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine and can provide additional advice in this area to support general health and endurance.

Lucy gained her degree in Speech and Language Pathology from Manchester University in 1990, before working in the NHS for 22 years, seeing both adults and children with a variety of speech and language difficulties. Her practice covers assessment of voice problems, referral to ENT, and therapeutic interventions including laryngeal manual therapy (LMT) and Speech and Language Therapy exercises. She is experienced in voice care and vocal cord pathology prevention, and helping patients with vocal cord pathology and those undergoing therapeutic intervention. She provides services in person and online.

Lucy maintains her registration with HCPC, the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, as well as being a member of the British Laryngological Association and a certified member of the British Society for Lifestyle Medicine.

Maria Lawford is a Psychodynamic counsellor with personal experience as an actor and working in theatre. She went on to train in Psychodynamic Counselling, Psychoanalytic Studies and trauma focused CBT, gaining considerable experience in the NHS supporting clients with acute and physical conditions. She now helps clients including professionals and students in the performing arts manage and overcome concerns such as:

Performance anxiety, low self esteem and managing stress, anxiety and panic
Relationship problems - at work and home - living away from home, beginning relationships with new teams, rivalry and power dynamics
Trauma, bullying and intimidation, abuse - historic and current
Financial issues and unemployment - anxiety around finding work
Separation and loss (including support for touring professionals),
Bereavement
Accident and illness
Addictive behaviours

Maria uses a flexible therapeutic approach, tailored to each individual, combining elements of Psychodynamic counselling; CBT/behavioural techniques; trauma focused work; person-centered and relational, solution focused therapy. She can provide long and short term therapy in person or by video and telephone.

Maria has experience in working with and alongside a broad range of people in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, faiths, sexual orientation, disability, education and national origin. She respects and appreciates diversity and the positive value this gives to the places of work and in society.

Physiotherapist with experience working with musicians and dancers in Northern Ireland, including string and woodwind artists of the Ulster Orchestra/Youth Orchestra and members of Down and Connor folk group. Sees many touring casts when in Belfast - dancers and musicians.

Hypnotherapy, stress management and CBT based psychotherapy provided both face to face and online, for instance for musicians on tour. Martyn is a former professional rock musician with considerable experience working with creative practitioners.

Megan Longville is an experienced Dyslexia Diagnostician and 1-1 Study Skills Tutor. She supports artists and creative practitioners with skill strategies relating to essays, revision/memory, presentations, research, challenges associated with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and ADD including short term memory, speed of processing issues, spelling, analytical/critical writing, proof reading and editing, presentation and performance.

In her experience of 24 years, Megan has worked with many students and professionals who have been creative artists such as graphic designers, illustrators, textile designers, stage and set designers, musicians and singers.

Course programmes include written studies and dissertations and despite students’ extremely high musical/theatrical abilities, end grades may be severely hampered by specific learning challenges such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD or ADD. Through her work, Megan aims to help level the playing field in the form of academic study support, enabling more automatous learning. She has taught for many universities in Wales and England and now teaches privately via an agency and independent requests, online and face to face.

Miranda Jackson is a highly experienced psychotherapist and counsellor with over 30 years experience in the music industry as an artist manager. With her insider knowledge of the music industry, she is an expert in musicians' and other arts professionals' mental health. Where appropriate, clients can access the Stimmung Therapy Programme, delivered together with Helen Brice, who is also a BAPAM Registered therapist. This combines one-to-one trauma therapy with skills in Mindfulness and emotional containment, helping to release difficult thoughts and fears in a safe, supportive space.

Miranda works with creative professionals presenting with, for example, drug addiction and substance misuse associated with gig culture, sexual identity, stage identity, eating disorders, struggles with casting, auditions and bookings, stage fright/performance anxiety, bereavement, physical injury and illness, career and life transitions. Stimmung Therapy is based in Piccadilly, London. Miranda also practises in Wiltshire and provides online therapy.

"As a psychotherapist I specialise in working with musicians, actors, writers and performers who are experiencing overwhelming emotions and need support while keeping the channel of self-expression and communication open. I have counselled people of many nationalities, backgrounds and beliefs and all genders and sexualities. All are welcome. With considerable management experience in both the commercial and charity sectors, I have the experience to deal with workplace issues such as redundancy, unfair dismissal, workplace bullying, career development and career change. I have supported a number of survivors of abuse, both male and female and will work with offenders who show genuine remorse. I have a lot of experience in helping clients manage pain and long-term illness, especially ME and now Long Covid."

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Person-centered counselling. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) used for trauma work. CBT for depression, Anxiety traps. self harm, suicide prevention. interventions for perfectionism. Phobias, eating disorders and performance anxiety. Works with many RNCM students, musicians, actors and dancers.

Specialist treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of musicians' hand and upper limb injuries. Katherine's clinical experience has focused on plastic and orthopaedic surgery patients with hand and upper limb injuries, burns, and rheumatological conditions. She has lectured and published widely, established two hand therapy units, worked as a research therapist and is currently performing doctoral research in the area of Focal Hand Dystonia affecting musicians. Having completed her Associate Music Diploma in Flute performance in 1997, Katherine enjoys combining her love for music and knowledge of the hand and upper limb. She has invaluable insight into life and the related pressures of being a musician.

Lisa specialises in treating performing artists such as dancers, choreographers, musicians, circus performers, singers, and actors, and has experience working with a wide variety of patients including elite athletes, youngsters and the elderly. Her expertise includes post-operation rehabilitation, overuse injuries, traumatic injuries, advice regarding posture and overuse, environmental effects on pain - stool type/height, music stands, props etc, adapting practice schedule, return to play/performing rehabilitation specific for dancers, musicians and circus performers.

Lisa has experience working with American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey Dance Company in New York City. She was a dancer for 15 years and has played 7 different instruments throughout her life. She was also the first American to be accepted and to complete the MSc Performing Arts Medicine course at University College London in 2017.

Sophie is a Specialist Performing Arts and Sport Physiotherapist, who has been providing Physio management to film, production and the performing arts since 2013. She has worked with professional performers based in the West End (inc. War Horse, Matilda, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Wicked and Billy Elliot), on Tour with Dirty Dancing and The Lion King, and for Strictly Come Dancing, the TV series. She spent 2 months at the beginning of 2017 in Austria with channel 4's 'The Jump'. Before this she worked alongside Saracens Academy RFC, and set up a Physiotherapy practice up in the 'Portes Du Soleil, Switzerland' where she worked during the winter season, with skiers/snowboarders. In private practice, Sophie can be found working at The Centre of Health and Human Performance on Harley Street, London. She also lectures at University College London (UCL) on the MSc programme in Performing Arts Medicine.

Andy Evans is a specialist in performance psychology, coaching and careers work, with over thirty years experience working with performers, particularly musicians. He was a Performance Psychologist at BIMM International Popular Music Academy, and Career Coach to Dancers Career Development for 15 years. Andy has published extensively on performance psychology, his latest book being 'Secrets of Performing Confidence' (2013, Bloomsbury). All the typical issues of performers are covered in sessions - creativity, career enhancement, managing performance anxiety, peak performance, auditioning, practice and rehearsal strategies, motivation, stress, burnout, confidence, perfectionism.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy and counselling. A former professional musician. Has helped actors, dancers and musicians with issues including anxiety, depression, self esteem, relationships and family problems, sexuality, bereavement.

Charles Ward is a former professional session singer who trained as a Massage Therapist who continues to be a keen songwriter, guitarist and singer. He has a special interest in working with voice users including singers, actors and public speakers. He has been treating high profile singers since 2014 and has treated artists on tour at music venues around the UK. Charles provides vocal massage and Laryngeal Manual Therapy (LMT), and has helped many performers with problems including vocal fatigue, muscle tension dysphonia, physical symptoms of stress and anxiety, poor breathing and technique, as well as general maintenance and injury prevention. Charles has published articles for the Voice Council and presented for various Music Colleges and Universities, as well as for The British Voice Association in relation to LMT. He understands the importance of vocal health, how precious and essential the voice is, and the impact that it can have when things go wrong. Charles is also expert at diagnosing and treating sports and musculoskeletal injuries and is a keen cyclist.

Rehabilitation specialist voice coach with extensive expertise in working with singers and professional voice users - Vocal rehabilitation, muscle tension dysphonia, vocal fold lesions, psychogenic voice disorders. Consultations available in London, Manchester and Online.

Dane Chalfin is one of the West End and British Recording Industry’s leading vocal coaches. He is also a Vocal Rehabilitation Coach (Clinical Singing Voice Specialist) working in Singer-Specialist ENT Clinics. Clients include major recording artists and West End productions. His private practice consists of around 70% vocal rehabilitation for performers with voice trouble and 30% high-profile performers who want regular coaching to stay in peak performance condition. Dane routinely works with pop/rock/theatre singers, radio/tv broadcasters, presenters, transgender performers, and other vocal coaches/singing teachers who want to upskill.

Mr Declan Costello is a highly experienced consultant laryngologist with extensive expertise in treating all aspects of voice disorders and hoarseness from vocal cord nodules and cysts to polyps, papilloma, vocal cord paralysis and spasmodic dysphonia. As a singer himself, he has a particular interest in treating voice disorders in performers. He is also one of the leading exponents of local anaesthetic laryngeal procedures, which can be particularly beneficial for patients with vocal fold paralysis. He regularly runs workshops for singers and performers on voice health and anatomy. NHS Voice Clinic in Slough at Wexham Park Hospital. Private appointments at King Edward VII's Hospital, London.

Ed Blake is the Director and Lead Physiotherapist at PhysioEd Medical.

Ed founded Physio Ed Medical Ltd in 2004 following a successful stint as a sole clinician in private practice. Prior to this he had completed a BSc in Physiotherapy in Perth Western Australia and an MSc in physiotherapy at University College London. He has pioneered physiotherapy treatments for vocal patients and has vast experience in the management of dance and performance related injuries.

He lectures regularly on the academic circuit on the above topics and has many publications to his name in prestigious medical texts and journals. Ed is also an Honorary UCL lecturer and co-leading MSK module for the MSc in Performing Arts Medicine. His primary area of interest is in the management of spinal pain in addition to his vocal work. Outside of work he is a keen skier, runner and swimmer.

Provides psychological support to performers across numerous domains including music, sport, drama, dance and business. Has worked with many professional and student musicians through the Incorporated Society of Musicians as well as Healthy Conservatoires. Expertise in psychology of optimal performance, overcoming performance anxiety, mental health and wellbeing.

Greg has worked on developing many top musicians psychological approach to performance and frequently runs workshops with the Incorporated Society of Musicians, across the UK for musicians seeking to enhance their own performance levels and cope with the high demands of a career in music. Greg, in collaboration with his wife (Dr Ally Daubney) also runs numerous workshops for music teachers to help them effectively handle their students' music performance anxiety.

In conjunction with his wife, Greg has published two books centred on effective psychological approaches to performance management. The first is a practical resource for music teachers to provide them with strategies to help their students handle music performance anxiety and is entitled Performance Anxiety: A Practical Guide for Music Teachers. The second is a hands on psychological approach to optimising music performance for developing and professional musicians.

Mr Jonathan Fishman is a consultant ENT surgeon working at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, and privately via www.londonvoicedoctor.co.uk. He has worked with many professional voice users e.g. musical theatre and opera singers presenting with hoarseness and voice disorders.

He graduated with a triple first class honours degree in pre-clinical medicine from the University of Cambridge and completed his clinical training at the University of Oxford.

He completed his higher surgical training in both London and Oxford. During his training he was awarded a PhD from University College London.

He has received numerous awards, grants, prizes and research fellowships and has published widely in the field of ENT. He has lectured both nationally and internationally and has organised and chaired sessions at National, European and International meetings. He is senior editor for the Journal of Laryngology and Otology, a current leading UK ENT journal, established in 1887.

He has a sub-specialty interest in laryngology. He is an elected member of the Council of the British Laryngological Association, a council member of the British Voice Association and an executive council member and scientific committee member of the European Laryngological Society.

Has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2000 and seen many hundreds of performers, helping with injury prevention, safe lifting and handling on stage, raked stages, exercise, warm up, musculoskeletal problems.

Mr Mark Phillips is a Hand and Upper Limb Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in musicians and other performing artists. Expert with hand, wrist and upper limb conditions including pain, tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, stiffness of joints, focal dystonia, joint instability, arthritis, Dupuytren's contracture and fractures. Holistic approach and a low conversion rate to surgery. Plays trumpet and guitar. Private and NHS Choose and Book appointments are available. BMI Healthcare at Hendon, where he runs the Adult Musicians Upper Limb Clinic, and Blackheath. London Sports Orthopaedics at 31 Old Broad Street. BAPAM Clinic, London. Free appointments are also available at BAPAM, London.

Osteopath and Pilates Rehabilitation Instructor. Clinician at BAPAM and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Very experienced treating singers, musicians, actors and dancers. Expertise includes movement, jaw issues, neck and laryngeal tension affecting singers, exercise, injury prevention and rehabilitation. Private practice at Hermes Health, Chiswell Street, London.

Patrice is a former professional French horn player with much experience in the field of music, all instrumentalists/instrument groups, and singers with musculoskeletal/posture disorders. Published research into treatment of focal dystonia. Clinics at Scottish Opera Production Studios and Torrance Dental Practice.

Sport & Performance Psychologist and coach with extensive experience helping creative practitioners with problems including depression, anxiety, performance trauma, addiction, eating disorders, burnout, injury, self-harm, bullying, PTSD, relationship breakdown. Practises in Bristol and also provides online sessions.

Richard Lewis is a very experienced therapist who has worked with a great many performance professionals including musicians and dancers, and students and professional staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he began the counselling service. He is experienced working with people of all ages and can help with a wide range of problems relating to, for example, performance anxiety, drugs, relationships, sexuality, alcohol, trauma, adoption, self-esteem, aging, severe mental health challenges, losing one's performing ability.

Has worked with a variety of creative practitioners including film directors, painters, musicians and dancers, who have presented with depression, eating disorders, anger issues, relationship issues and performance anxiety. Also works with companies advising on employees' stress. Based in both Glasgow and London.

Sudhir Daya has treated thousands of athletes, performing artists and office warriors, enabling them to get back to doing the activities that give meaning to their lives. Sudhir believes in a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to health, and his training and practice reflect this belief. After graduating with distinction as a chartered physiotherapist (MCSP), Sudhir turned to acupuncture and ergonomics. Sudhir is a believer in the re-education of healthy movement patterns.

Before training as an Osteopath, Toby was a professional ballet dancer, working with The Israel Ballet for several years, and subsequently completing two world tours with Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. He has had his fair share of injuries and was always interested in treatment and rehab. In 2008, he decided to switch careers, training at the British School of Osteopathy (now the University College of Osteopathy), from where he graduated in 2014 with distinction. He has also completed his sports massage training at the London School of Sports Massage.

He currently works in Ascot, Berkshire, where he treats patients of all ages and from all backgrounds. He happily tackles all injuries from head to toe, and enjoys finding the correct package of management for his patients. Toby has a particular interest in looking after performers and dancers, and has had dance-based research published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. As well as being a registered practitioner with BAPAM, he is listed on OneDance's Directory of Practitioners and is a member of the Osteopathic Performing Arts Care Association (OPACA).

BAPAM Guest Blog: From Dancer to Osteopath by Toby Pollard-Smith

Will Roberts is an integrative Arts Psychotherapist and musician working with individuals and groups, helping address problems including depression and anxiety (often related to precarious gig-economy work), social anxiety, performance anxiety, loss of confidence and personality disorders. He is also experienced working with recovering alcoholics, addicts and vulnerable patients.

'My background as a professional musician working in many areas has helped me to develop a particular affinity for and understanding of the mental health issues that are common in the field. I am aware of the strain and pressure that working in the arts can have on individual's mental health'.

Amy has an avid interest in how presbyopia (the normal loss of near focusing ability that occurs with age) affects a musician's ability to play and perform. Musicians have a wide range of eyesight needs e.g. they may need to see the top of the guitar neck to the sound hole, their set list, fellow players, a conductor, audience. Different focal lengths are assessed and a suitable prescription provided. Amy also advises clients with contrast Sensitivity, macula degeneration and has a special interest in the perceptual processing disorder, Meares-Irlen Syndrome.

Professional experience singing and working in the arts for over 10 years. Clinical experience in the NHS and working with performing artists working with issues such as Anxiety, Depression, Panic attacks, Performance anxiety, Addiction, Fame and celebrity, Body image, Trauma, Relationships, Burnout, Self esteem, Creative blocks, Worthlessness, Isolation, Rejection, Anger, Loss and grief, Control issues, Abuse, Trust issues, Pregnancy, Family problems, Sexuality, Existential issues. Works from a therapeutic space in Muswell Hill, London N10, and offers telephone and Skype counselling.

Worked with dancers since 2002. Works at Trinity LABAN as head physiotherapist. Core stability, muscle imbalance, spine, sacroiliac joint, knees. Private Practice in Wimbledon.

Maria Radoje is an experienced Music therapist with a special interest in Guided Imagery and Music, a type of music psychotherapy that uncovers unconscious processes, which she uses in working with performers by exploring the person's relationship with their instrument or chosen medium of expression, encouraging relaxation skills, and challenging unhealthy thought processes. Maria has experience working with trauma, depression and anxiety, and people experiencing acute phases of mental illness, as well as in the recovery phase. She also has expertise in working with people with dementia and those with physical disabilities, and has helped clients manage alcohol misuse, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and trauma. She 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 has more than 20 years' experience as a professional music therapist working in mental health settings and with people with learning disabilities and dementia. Sessions are available in London and online.

Sarah is an Occupational Psychologist with twenty years of experience in Occupational Health, providing psychological support for staff and teams in the NHS, Social Care, Local Government, Education, Industry, and the Performing Arts. Sarah’s earlier career as a Professional Musician enabled her to develop experience and insight into the challenges, pressures and demands facing the musician from training to professional life in music performance.

Sarah is a BAPAM assessing clinician in Cardiff and has a private practice in West Wales. She combines her experience and expertise across her two careers to provide a specialist service for musicians and performers. As a practitioner she uses a Cognitive-Behavioural and integrative approach, drawn from a psychological-biological-social understanding of human behaviour and emotional needs. Focusing on the unique needs and resources of the individual, Sarah works collaboratively with clients to develop understanding, guide skill acquisition, strengthen coping abilities, and nurture resilience. Sarah’s areas of expertise include:

• Performance Anxiety Management
• Performance Coaching
• Perfectionism and OCD
• Occupational and workplace Stress
• Stress and Trauma
• Self Identity and Loss
• Self-Belief, Self Esteem and Confidence
• Relationship trauma, and bullying
• Career change, transition and retirement
• Burnout, Rehabilitation and return to work
• Organisational Stress Risk Assessment

Alison Judah is a consultant osteopath who practices in Hammersmith, West London and in Hove East Sussex. She qualified in 1992 from the London School of Osteopathy with a Diploma in Osteopathic Medicine and then from Kingston University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Osteopathy. She undertook a Post-Graduate Diploma in Paediatric Osteopath at the Osteopathic Centre for Children. Alison has undertaken further training in the specialist area of caring for performing artists including the voice.

SPECIALIST OSTEOPATH TO THE PERFORMING ARTS

MUSICIANS
Alison helps many musicians by diagnosing the cause of their injuries, assessing them with their instrument rehabilitating them back to fitness and advising on furture injury prevention. Where it is possible musicians should bring their instrument with them to the appointment. Ergonomic assessments can also be carried out in a performance space. Musicians have busy schedules and she can arrange private MRI scans and xrays where necessary so as to get a diagnosis quickly and get them back to performing as soon as possible.

OSTEOPATHY FOR THE VOICE

Alexander Technique and cello teacher, former professional cellist.

Osteopathy and Cranial Osteopathy experienced working with performers and creative practitioners.

Hidemi is a professional soprano singer and harpsichord player and experienced Alexander Technique teacher working with instrumentalists, singers, actors and dancers. Since 1996 has taught professional and student performers, privately and at institutions in both the UK and Japan. Teaches at various locations including Pimlico Centre for the Alexander Technique, and the Haelan Centre in Crouch End. She also practices in London N4.

Holistic Massage Therapist with professional experience as a stage manager and arts administrator. Has worked with actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, singers, stage managers, props makers and wardrobe personnel. Helps with conditions including carpal tunnel, RSI, muscle fatigue, frozen shoulder, arthritis, postural issues, back pain, sciatica, joint problems, knee & hip issues, stress, anxiety, insomnia, pregnancy. Jennie is also a meditation practitioner and works holistically to 'help reduce stress levels, generate both physical and mental balance – and enable you to lead a relaxed and more productive life'.