Who is it for?
Anyone can be referred for our music therapy services, including children and adults. You can refer by yourself or (if your child is in school), you can ask the Special Educational Needs Coordinator or Special Needs Lead to do a referral. A key worker or family support worker can also help.
If you would like to refer more than one client, or would like one of our therapists to be based in your setting for a day, please contact us direct.
We work with a range of need covering complex mental health, physical difficulties, low level anxiety and stress, and with clients across the spectrum of ASD both verbal and non-verbal; as well as working with trauma, dementia and learning difficulties, social isolation and bereavement.
We work with both children and adults. Settings include adult residential care homes and day centres, community centres, libraries, client’s homes, primary and secondary mainstream and primary and secondary special schools and outdoor learning environments.
How To Make A Referral
Please email us email us here giving your name and contact information ONLY. Please do not share information about the client at this stage. We will call you back to discuss your individual needs.
Costs
There is a charge for our services. Sometimes this is met by parents/carers, or more typically schools or other sources cover the cost through a range of funding sources, such as:
- EHCP funding (often attached to children in need)
- Community grants
- ASF (adoption support fund),
- Self funded
- Some schools use wellbeing, healthy schools or mental health funding for our wellbeing projects.
There are a small number of music therapy charities that can help parent/carers to fund music therapy; we can point you in the direction.
Our hourly rate for a music therapy session is £62.50, as of September 2024.
Please note: If our therapist is coming to your setting, there is a minimum charge of 90 minutes. If the venue is outside of the West of England region (North Somerset, South Glos, Bristol or BANES) we may also need to add travel costs.
Our Music Therapy Service in Action
You can view two films about our Music Therapy service. The first introduces you to the Therapy service, some clients and some of our referrers from schools and other settings. The second aims to give you a flavour of what a music therapy session looks like.
PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND MEMBERSHIP
Music Therapy is recognised under the umbrella of ‘Arts Therapies'. All our Therapists are registered with the Health Care Professions Council. The HCPC regulate the work of our Music Therapists and you can look up their registration on the HCPC website. We are also members of the British Association for Music Therapy.