Who we are
That Music Therapy Lot are primarily Music Therapists who are dedicated to making sure that music therapy is an option for you. We are highly-trained specialists based in London and Waltham Forest, E17.
Our signature is Integrative Psychotherapy and Process-Based Music Therapy, meaning we want to find a style of therapy that resonates with you and your history. As such, our team are highly-skilled at identifying patterns and features in your life and behaviours that would make you a good candidate for different therapy modalities.
We work hard at the start to get the best outcomes at the end.
All our clinicians maintain registration to the HCPC, good-standing CPD records, and a commitment to the standards of proficiency.
Bucking the trend.
Increasingly, Music Therapists have to exercise more and more flexibility to demonstrate their impact.
At That Music Therapy Lot, we make sure your clinicians have a boat-load of CPD so that they can be both flexible, and effective.
We are also experts in assessment, working to create new and innovative assessment tools both in Music Therapy, and for wider multi-disciplinary teams.
FAQs
What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is a psychological intervention which uses the musical skills of the therapist to support a client’s wellbeing. Find out more at the British Association for Music Therapy.
Where do you work?
Music Therapists can work with anyone and anywhere but primarily at That Music Therapy Lot we work with verbal populations who are handling deep-rooted trauma or SEMH difficulties. That being said, we are always open to hearing about how we might be able to help you, so never hesitate to get in touch.
How do you become a Music Therapist?
Music Therapists have to train for two years to get an MA in Music Therapy from one of 8 different teaching courses.
Where can I find out more?
You can find out more at www.bamt.org, or on the NHS England’s site about the Allied Health Professions. Alternatively, try having a look at the HCPC’s standards of proficiency if you want a deep-dive into what is expected of us!
Can anyone be a Music Therapist?
Music Therapy is a protected title by the Health and Care Professions Council. You can be prosecuted for practicing Music Therapy without being registered with them: don’t worry, we all are at Open Tuning!
What is Integrative Music Therapy?
Integrative Music Therapy just means that our clinicians have practiced a variety of approaches to therapy and are skilled at picking the right one for the right moment.
Where we’ve helped:
Overhauled the clinical referral system.
Flourish Learning Trust
Working to support some of the most disadvantaged young people in London
TCES
Restarted the Music Therapy provision at two schools.
Lime Trust
Meet the Founder
Ben Richardson
Ben started his professional career as a Music Therapist, before doing additional training to become an Integrative Psychotherapist. During his early work, he noticed that the major flaw in many clinician’s work wasn’t the therapy, it was the reporting.
Inspired by the work of Speech and Language and Occupational Therapist colleagues, he began to work to support a paradigm shift in the field towards Process-Based work; targeting measurable verbs rather than objective adjectives. This means that Ben watches for things like latency, similarity in expressions, and variance in responses.
Core to Ben’s philosophy is the belief that therapy resistance is a myth; it just means the right therapy hasn’t been tried yet. He has an excellent track record of engagement with adolescents and young adults, often supporting them to find the keys to success through his Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach.
When working with Ben, you can expect him to be very honest with you, whilst always holding what you think in higher regard than what he thinks. He is deeply interested in functional truth - the beliefs we hold to be true and act in line with, despite the evidence - and how these operate as our primary reasons for behaviour. You can also expect him to be bold and ask you to try things you might not have tried before in therapy; all in your own time, and in a way which feels manageable, with regular check-ins.
If requested, Ben’s dog Pru can also make an appearance in sessions!
Contact us
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