Music Psychotherapy
What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is a way of using music to explore and connect with oneself. Often, we hold onto traumas, grievances, darker emotions and bury them deeply into our subconscious. We can forget about them day to day, but in a strange way, they can often “run the show”. The nature of the subconscious means it can be difficult to access and comprehend these aspects for ourselves.
Making, listening to and experimenting with music can be a brilliant way of getting out of your head and into the body. Letting your subconscious take the reins and creatively explore the emotions, ideas and perceptions beginning to surface and make themselves clear.
So what might a music therapy session include?
There are many ways to explore music and we will find the right way together. My favoured ways of working musically with people are through song writing, deep listening, improvisations, composition, talking about pieces of music, art making to music, cataloguing collections of music, and vocal exploration.
There is much to explore when beginning a creative therapeutic journey.
Finding the mediums that aid your expression best is crucial.
I aim to be led by the person I am working with and take inspiration from them. I will offer creative ways of understanding and exploring the psyche. In combination with this, offering the use of music as a means of support.
Do I have to be good at music to have music therapy?
A common misconception is that you have to be good at music to have music therapy. You can have no musical ability whatsoever to have and benefit from music therapy. It is more about enabling you to process your subconscious thoughts in an embodied , integrated and holistic form. Of course, having an enjoyment of music does aid the process!
THERAPISTS
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Fizz Margereson
Fizz is a music psychotherapist, registered with the with The Health and Care Professions Council and a member of The British Association for Music Therapy. She is a singer, cellist, pianist and electronics musician.