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Music Therapy

Start date:

October 2025
January 2026

Places:

Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand

Cost / delivery:

£875 / 10 weeks, online or on-campus

Intermediate: October

Advanced: January

A programme of experiential workshops will be led by the course facilitator.

One full-day Induction (Saturday) and introductory workshop to begin the course, with weekly evening classes to follow; finishing with a full plenary day to close.

Classes will comprise interactive seminars on various aspects of practice and theory (1 – 1 and 1/4 hours), including video material, followed by workshop/experiential sessions.

The workshop segment will introduce the elements of clinical improvisation, whilst the experiential portion will provide a direct experience of group music therapy, the balance between these two elements shifting to the experiential as the course progresses.

You will be encouraged to keep a personal diary of the course, with particular emphasis on your psychological process in and via the experiential sessions.

Reading will be suggested, whilst hand-out essential reading will be provided that anticipates the following week’s seminar topic.

Delivery

Intermediate

  • On-campus: 18 October - 13 December 2025 
  • Online: 18 October - 13 December 2025 
  • 8 x two-hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays

Advanced

  • On-campus: 10 January 2025 - 7 March 2026
  • Online: 10 January - 8 March 2026 
  • 8 x two-hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays
Did you know?

The course will provide an overview of music therapy practice in the UK and follow the psychodynamic model as taught on Roehampton's MA course.

Details

Outcomes Suggested reading

Outcomes

You will need to complete 70% of the course and the assessment process in order to receive an electronic attendance certificate.

Please note that completion of the Music Therapy Foundation course does not guarantee a place on the MA Music Therapy programme at Roehampton University.

Suggested reading

Music Therapy Foundation Course

Introductory Reading List


Music Therapy (Creative Therapies in Practice series) by Rachel Darnley-Smith and Helen M Patey (5 Feb 2003)  pub: Sage

'Music Therapy in Context' - by Mercedes Pavlicevic - pub: JKP

‘The Drama of being a Child’ - by Alice Miller - pub: Virago Press

Please note that the latter two options are encouraged after some experience of the Foundation course & theory.

 

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