Ann-Marie Bryson

HCPC Registered Music Therapist & Clinical Supervisor 

Ann-Marie is a HCPC registered Music Therapist with 20 years’ experience of supporting children, young people and adults across a diverse range of issues.

She offers an invitation to engage in a creative pathway for you to explore thoughts and feelings without always having to find the words. She is passionate about creating a safe and trusting space in which people can achieve their potential in life. She believes fully in the power of connections and reconnection which often can be interrupted by challenges in life. What she offers is an opportunity to be heard, heal and repair through a creative lens and within the safety of the therapeutic relationship. Her approach will be adapted and personalised to best meet your needs and wants. You do not have to be good at music or play an instrument. It is about the exploration and the opportunity to use music within the therapy to support you further on your healing pathway.

Child Therapy:

Ann-Marie offers the opportunity for children to engage in the universal language of music within the therapeutic relationship. Some children may find it hard to express how they feel using words but can express themselves more creatively. Ann-Marie invites and encourages this creative approach with children who may find themselves overwhelmed with emotions and displaying unusual behaviours. Music Therapy offers a safe, non-judgemental, non-directive approach to children’s therapy where the child does not have to be able to play an instrument or ‘be good at music’. The music is used as a tool in the therapy to help the child to express how they feel and discovery a more resilient way forward. 

Adult Therapy:

She supports people who may experience a wide range of issues including: anxiety, stress, depression, developmental trauma, bereavement, family conflict/separation, neurodiversity, cognitive and communicative issues, trauma recovery and mental health.

She works across the age range and her approach is adapted to include talking therapy for young people and adults. She is passionate about making connections where there is not a total reliance on the spoken word to communicate how we feel or what we think. 

Her approach is trauma informed, integrative and client led incorporating psychodynamic, person-centred and aspects of cognitive/behavioural therapy. She firmly believes that we connect with people whom we trust and where there is no judgment or expectations. A place where we are accepted for who we are. She offers this confidential space which is full of creativity and possibilities.

      ‘Music is that which cannot be put into words’ (Victor Hugo)

      ‘Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power

       through deep listening to increase our intuition and self awareness’ (Andre Feriante)

She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Advanced Reflexive Supervision and has been a practicing clinical supervisor to counsellors, therapists, creative art therapists, management, non-clinical workers for the past 10 years. She is a firm believer in supporting therapists and other disciplines through the process of supervision within a non-shaming, non-judgemental, confidential learning environment. 

0754 381 4790 WhatsApp preferred.