Jackie robarts
I have many years’ experience working with disturbed children and adolescents and adults with histories of early trauma and attachment problem, across a range of conditions, such as selective mutism, autism, eating disorders, and developmental delay. I'm an experienced teacher of music therapists both at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London where I taught clinical and theoretical studies, and at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre London, where I was Senior Therapist and Clinical Tutor for 25 years, teaching clinical improvisation and core studies. I'm registered as an Arts (Music) Therapist with Health & Care Professions Council, and am a full member and supervisor with the British Association for Music Therapy. I am a pianist, composer, and writer.
I enjoy teaching and supervising both experienced and newly qualified music therapists. Supervising music therapists may include expanding (or refreshing) techniques in clinical improvisation, use of musical form, and improvised song creation, working with the metaphorical levels of playing and relating with and without music. Understanding and working with symbolic play and enactments of internal worlds in music therapy comes from many years of .
My music therapy practice spans over 40 years and includes working with a wide range of children, adolescents, and adults in the NHS, where she headed a music therapy service; in schools; and at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London. I have also worked with musicians and other creative artists in the areas of wellbeing and mental health. I present and teach internationally, illustrating music therapy practice and theory in work with children, adolescents and adults, including those with early trauma, attachment problems, autism, developmental delay, mental health problems.
My clinical and research interests are in musical-relational processes of foundations of self, symbolisation (meaning) and embodied mentalizing. My understanding of music as therapy has been forged through long-term work with children and adults with developmental and mental health problems, including histories of early trauma, abuse & neglect, attachment problems, autism and related conditions, such as eating disorders, and selective mutism. My research was funded by The Music Therapy Charity and by The City University’s School of Arts, London, where she was a University Research Fellow (1998-2002).
I have published papers and chapters on clinical and theoretical perspectives in music therapy, and given many conference presentations alongside leading researchers and clinicians in the fields of autism, abuse & early trauma, eating disorders, developmental psychology and child psychotherapy. I am editor of 'Symbolic Play & Creative Arts in Music Therapy with Children and Families' - to be published early 2023 by Jessica Kingsley.
I enjoy teaching and supervising both experienced and newly qualified music therapists. Supervising music therapists may include expanding (or refreshing) techniques in clinical improvisation, use of musical form, and improvised song creation, working with the metaphorical levels of playing and relating with and without music. Understanding and working with symbolic play and enactments of internal worlds in music therapy comes from many years of .
My music therapy practice spans over 40 years and includes working with a wide range of children, adolescents, and adults in the NHS, where she headed a music therapy service; in schools; and at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London. I have also worked with musicians and other creative artists in the areas of wellbeing and mental health. I present and teach internationally, illustrating music therapy practice and theory in work with children, adolescents and adults, including those with early trauma, attachment problems, autism, developmental delay, mental health problems.
My clinical and research interests are in musical-relational processes of foundations of self, symbolisation (meaning) and embodied mentalizing. My understanding of music as therapy has been forged through long-term work with children and adults with developmental and mental health problems, including histories of early trauma, abuse & neglect, attachment problems, autism and related conditions, such as eating disorders, and selective mutism. My research was funded by The Music Therapy Charity and by The City University’s School of Arts, London, where she was a University Research Fellow (1998-2002).
I have published papers and chapters on clinical and theoretical perspectives in music therapy, and given many conference presentations alongside leading researchers and clinicians in the fields of autism, abuse & early trauma, eating disorders, developmental psychology and child psychotherapy. I am editor of 'Symbolic Play & Creative Arts in Music Therapy with Children and Families' - to be published early 2023 by Jessica Kingsley.
