Louise is a Consultant Music Therapist and a Specialist Attachment Practitioner and is part of our associate team.
Louise currently runs her own independent therapy practice, offering music therapy or DDP sessions for individual children/young people, families, parent(s)/carer(s) or groups. Additionally she offers supervision, network support, training and workshops, as well as reflective practice sessions.
She has worked within the NHS for over 10 years as a Music Therapist and a Clinical Team Manager. She started her career as a primary school teacher before training to become a Music Therapist and then further training to become a Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT). Louise has experience working within a variety of children’s services and settings, including acute mental health wards, family homes, nurseries, drop in clinics, outreach services, special and mainstream education, child development services, hospital wards and community clinics. She has also worked within maternity care supporting birthing people and their families in the perinatal period.
Throughout her career she has gained extensive experience working with children/young people and their parent(s)/carer(s) with complex developmental, trauma, mental health, social and medical needs. She is also experienced in leading specialist diagnostic assessments for Autism.
Louise is currently the South West of England’s British Association of Music Therapist’s (BAMT) area group coordinator and leads a DDP Special Interest Group (SIG) for Creative Therapists. She is also the co-author of a chapter in ‘Music and Parental wellbeing’ (2024) Oxford University Press.
Her priority in her work is supporting young people, their families/carers and extended systems to understand themselves and the way they respond and communicate.
Louise is currently on the DDP practicum and Level 1 trained in Theraplay. She is also trained in Non-Violent Resistance Therapy (level 1).