Common Questions about Music Therapy (and what really happens in a session…)

We all use music therapeutically - whether we’re aware of it or not. Perhaps you choose high tempo music to motivate your workout, relaxing music to accompany your bath or maybe you listen to rock or metal when you’re on an ‘angry walk’ (just me then?).

But lots of people ask me what music therapy is, as a clinical profession. What we do, who can benefit and how it all works. Here are some answers to the more common questions I’m asked about music therapy: