Finally got the floppy hat. Here I am with esteemed friend and colleague Maggie Grady.

This was a really fun project to supervise! Conducted by Karen Jones for her MA Music Therapy dissertation. Coauthored with @jazztoad.bsky.social "I’m Coming Out": The Role of Music in LGBTQ+ Identities | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy share.google/ew4XJFpHDXLe...

Episode 100 of #musictherapyconversations is out today. jazztoad.libsyn.com

Episode 100 of ##musictherapyconversations is out next Wednesday!

Highly recommended

#musictherapyconversations episode 96 is out - my conversation with folk musician Tamsin Elliott. This includes live performances from Tamsin along with discussion of topics relevant to ##musictherapy - arts in health, cross cultural understanding, lived experience. jazztoad.libsyn.com

Yes

Thanks to Jaytee for this great conversation!

Ok maybe I will stick with Blue Sky for a bit longer then...

Ep 93 of #musictherapyconversations is out today. @martinlawesgim talks to Colin Lee about Aesthetic #musictherapy and the new Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy. Download today! jazztoad.libsyn.com

My Bandcamp subscription is always £30 a year. For everything. There's no upper tier for rich people, no 'donation' level where you just give me money for doing nothing. That's less than a £3/month patreon offer, and you get literally all the music I make, normally between 8-12 albums a year...

Once again @TillyMutter has done her roving reporter trick, this time at #bamt2024 her interviews are out today in Ep 92 of #musictherapyconversations, along with a conversation between Tilly and me remembering the conference. jazztoad.libsyn.com

#musictherapyconversations ep 89 - Davina Vencatasamy spoke to Emi Booth about their experiences as a deaf music therapist, which they presented on at #BAMT2024 A fascinating and thoughtful interview. Congrats both! Download today. jazztoad.libsyn.com

New #musictherapyconversations episode out today - (at last!) the brilliant Jessica Leza on #neuroqueering and #neurocosmopolitanism and how these concepts can apply to #musictherapy jazztoad.libsyn.com

“Music is a useful link in the chain of processes from the unconscious, and its attendant darkness and turbulence, to consciousness and its attendant words” John 1992 - Towards Music Psychotherapy

“a main goal for music therapy is to expand the client’s lived experience and intersubjective awareness through new ways of relating through music” Trondalen 2016 - Relational Music Therapy

#musictherapyconversations ep 84 is out today. Den Vecchio is a play therapist working in private practice and schools in Bristol. We discuss #playtherapy approaches, Dibs, comparisons with #musictherapy and spiders, snakes and crocodiles. jazztoad.libsyn.com

New music therapy conversations podcast episode out on Wednesday - my conversation with play therapist Den Vecchio. Snakes, spiders and crocodiles... jazztoad.libsyn.com

Just saw a post on SM with a bloke skipping in time to music described as ‘music therapy’. If you’re curious about #musictherapy as a potential client/participant or prospective trainee, just to let you know, it’s a LOT more interesting than that.