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MUSIC THERAPY SUPERVISION - GROWING AS A THERAPIST
Getting to the heart of music therapy and the music-therapeutic relationship is a creative learning process: a journey deepening one's experience and understanding through a synthesis of listening, feeling, exploring, and thinking. My approach to supervising and teaching is one that first responds to the individual person, their experience, their style of working, their clients. Where useful, I integrate developmental and psychodynamic understanding, deeply rooted in music-making and in the play and expressive arts that arise in the music-therapeutic process. I hope that our shared therapeutic insights will link those experiences with further reflections, as well as expanding practical skills and deepening our understanding.
CLINICAL IMPROVISATION LESSONS - KEYBOARD, VOICE & PERCUSSION
I teach experienced and trainee music therapists using my systematic approach to develop keyboard harmony and improvised accompaniment. This includes working in structured and free improvisation, using voice and other instruments. From basic steps in improvisation to advanced uses of different genres and styles I tailor lessons to each person's strengths, drawing on their individual musicality and musicianship to develop their range and flexibility. Improvisation techniques are explored through role-playing music therapy scenarios, as well as listening to clinical material and exploring classical and popular music. Making links between clinical improvisation techniques and music therapy processes helps grow our perception and understanding.
My work as a music therapist, supervisor, and trainer of music therapists spans over four decades, with a wide range of children, adolescents and adults - in NHS child & adolescent and adult mental health settings, in mainstream and special education.
Formerly Senior Therapist and Clinical Tutor for nearly 3 decades Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy London, and a visiting lecturer for many years on the Guildhall School of Music & Drama masters in music therapy training program, I'm known for a creative music-therapeutic expressive arts approach, informed by modern developmental psychology and psychoanalysis. I present my work internationally, and have published in music therapy and interdisciplinary texts and journals.
In book stores and online from March 21st 2023:
Symbolic Play and Creative Arts in Music Therapy with Children and Families
by Jacqueline Robarts
London & New York: Jessica Kingsley
Getting to the heart of music therapy and the music-therapeutic relationship is a creative learning process: a journey deepening one's experience and understanding through a synthesis of listening, feeling, exploring, and thinking. My approach to supervising and teaching is one that first responds to the individual person, their experience, their style of working, their clients. Where useful, I integrate developmental and psychodynamic understanding, deeply rooted in music-making and in the play and expressive arts that arise in the music-therapeutic process. I hope that our shared therapeutic insights will link those experiences with further reflections, as well as expanding practical skills and deepening our understanding.
CLINICAL IMPROVISATION LESSONS - KEYBOARD, VOICE & PERCUSSION
I teach experienced and trainee music therapists using my systematic approach to develop keyboard harmony and improvised accompaniment. This includes working in structured and free improvisation, using voice and other instruments. From basic steps in improvisation to advanced uses of different genres and styles I tailor lessons to each person's strengths, drawing on their individual musicality and musicianship to develop their range and flexibility. Improvisation techniques are explored through role-playing music therapy scenarios, as well as listening to clinical material and exploring classical and popular music. Making links between clinical improvisation techniques and music therapy processes helps grow our perception and understanding.
My work as a music therapist, supervisor, and trainer of music therapists spans over four decades, with a wide range of children, adolescents and adults - in NHS child & adolescent and adult mental health settings, in mainstream and special education.
Formerly Senior Therapist and Clinical Tutor for nearly 3 decades Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy London, and a visiting lecturer for many years on the Guildhall School of Music & Drama masters in music therapy training program, I'm known for a creative music-therapeutic expressive arts approach, informed by modern developmental psychology and psychoanalysis. I present my work internationally, and have published in music therapy and interdisciplinary texts and journals.
In book stores and online from March 21st 2023:
Symbolic Play and Creative Arts in Music Therapy with Children and Families
by Jacqueline Robarts
London & New York: Jessica Kingsley
