This Inner Voice Music Therapy Ltd.

13/04/2026

Excited to launch our new, community musicianship course where participants will learn how to design and lead their own group! Link for details and all sorts of lovely freebies..
https://courses.thisinnervoice.com/

08/04/2026

Excited to be launching our new, online courses this week - intro to music therapy and 'The Songbird' community musicianship programme. Lots of freebies and introductory offers to be had.. courses.thisinnervoice.com

04/01/2026

Figaro enjoyed helping me put together my latest free, online webinar for musicians interested in music therapy training. The replay is available here: https://www.thisinnervoice.com/services-2

05/11/2025

Are you interested in training in music therapy as a career, but not sure whether it could be the right move for you? Our mini guide helps you to recognise the signs that you have the right qualities, and helps to work out where to go from here.

This mini guide is the first step in discovering whether your unique qualities align with music therapy, offering insight, clarity and the possibility of an exciting new direction.

21/10/2025

🦉 Lovely to return to Leeds, my hometown, for the fantastic Collaboration in Rehabiliation annual conference hosted by Positive OT & Case Management, Intospeech Ltd and Healing Touch Rehab.

📓 It was so nice to meet so many lovely people, and to learn from excellent talks given by experts as well as those with lived experience - brain injury survivors and families who gave so many valued insights.

🥁 Charlie Douthwaite 🚀and I enjoyed talking about our passion for bringing together Speech and Language Therapy with Neurologic Music Therapy™ and the power of a truly integrated approach. This is the work we love doing together at Excel SLT Limited and This Inner Voice Music Therapy Ltd.

🍰 Thank you so much to Kay Ganguly, Jo Gallagher and Jackie Chappel for inviting us and for the amazing gifts. Needless to say that the Betty's bag of treats were hoovered very swiftly!
Many thanks to Premium Care Solutions Limited solutions and Rowley Clinical Neuropsychology Services Ltd for the event refreshments.

😊 Great to know that the event proceeds go to Little Hiccups and STEPS Rehabilitation Foundation.

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05/09/2025

So excited to be speaking about joint Speech and Language Therapy and Neuro Music Therapy at this wonderful event in Leeds in October!

12/06/2025

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Excited to be hosting another free singing and music making confidence webinar for SLTs in July. Sign up via the link below.

Join me for this 1-hour free webinar where you will learn all about how to incorporate singing and some simple music-making into your work. Give your confidence a boost, and get some new ideas with the help of our

16/12/2024

Excited about my next online event, coming up on February 3rd at 6.30pm.

Learn all about how to deliver melodic intonation therapy to clients that will benefit from this excellent technique. You will also have some excellent recorded resources to support you.

16/12/2024

Excited about this new event coming up soon for speech and language therapists who are working with aphasic clients.

29/11/2024

Beautiful, busy day...

Last-minute preps - writing a song for a client who has lost all expressive speech - using words in his first language. The song will include melodic intonation therapy-influenced phrases to help him to reinforce the first few words we are re-learning (names of family members)..

Labelling some relevant keyboard notes so that I can offer him the chance to learn to play a few notes of his favourite song on the keyboard in the left hand (I will play the melody with him and sing.) The right hand is out of action - making his previous instrument-playing very difficult - and so this is a new way for him to make music again.

MDT meeting from the car - reporting back about how my young client with neurodiversity is making so much progress - co-writing a song with me and his lovely SLT which helps to express his feelings and wishes whilst building confidence.

I love seeing new carers' reactions when they see my first client become transformed from being very agitated and unable to remain seated, to cheerfully singing, remembering many lyrics and details about artists and chatting - a process that now takes minutes once the music starts.

Working on fine motor skills and sequencing today with a boy with neurodiversity. He's had a massive break through with being able to follow the notation to play riffs on the electric guitar! Being a bit of a dude is surely the way forward...

Final client of the day is a lovely young man who can play absolutely anything by ear. When I first met him, he could not tolerate anybody else making music at the same time, and my instruments would sometimes end up on the floor..

Now he often asks me to play with him and taking turns is much easier. We played carols and Xmas songs by ear, relaxing, socialising - a bit of chat here and there - harmonising and easily entering a state of joyous flow.

Home time - and how to decompress?? Hm - I decided to pick up my guitar...

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23/11/2024

I never knew when I first sang this demanding piece as a student - and a nervous wreck - that one day I would feel so confident that I could just drop the score and actually enjoy it!

"Thank you so much for your stunning performance in our performance of Mozart Great C minor Mass and Haydn Nelson Mass...Your rendering of Laudamus Te from memory and with its extreme range was simply stunning."

I like to help other therapists, especially SLTS who would like to do more singing with their clients with their confidence to do so.

Singing holds so many well-known, evidence-based benefits for our clients, and for ourselves.. I was going to write another looong list - but then again perhaps we don't need the science to know, just instinctively what feels so good must be good for us!

You are the instrument - and as a vehicle, a channel for beautiful music - especially with others - that feeling is absolutely thrilling.

Please join me at my next Christmas-themed workshops to build your singing confidence with clients, and to take home some fantastic resources - all designed to be easy to use, and in keys that people can actually manage with ease.

Dec 9th 6.30-8pm
Dec 10th 1-2.30pm

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Here's a link to my singing website if you would like to have a listen to some of the things I love to sing.

https://lnkd.in/eFvWyTwa

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