Could you train to be a music therapist?How to know if this career path might be right for you...

Serenna Wagner, Music Therapist and founder of This Inner Voice Music Therapy Ltd.

If you are a music teacher who loves helping their students but is feeling like something’s missing, then you’re not alone.

Some teachers find themselves drawn to the therapeutic benefits that music brings to their students, and that’s often where the path to music therapy begins. The therapeutic potential of music, and relationships that are rooted in a shared engagement with and passion for music, was a really big one for me. In some instances, I had a sense of the student’s therapeutic needs in the room, but being confined to the role of a teacher meant that it was not appropriate to formally address those.

I tried to show support through my tone of voice and body language whilst keeping to the educational script, but this led to feelings of frustration because I couldn’t help students in the way that I wanted to. I found this difficult because it was going against my nature to not respond in a therapeutic way.

• Do you find yourself more interested in how music makes people feel than chasing exam results?

• Do you find yourself connecting with students on a deeper emotional level?

• Have you ever wondered what it would be like to use music overtly to help people with their difficulties rather than preparing students towards exams or performance?

  
  

I was a peripatetic music teacher, and whilst I enjoyed many aspects of this work, when I discovered that music was capable of helping people not only emotionally but practically - and later finding out that it could be used scientifically to rehabilitate lives, then I knew that I had to train. NMT System of Standardized Techniques – Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy®

When I was considering the MA training as a music therapist, although I loved the idea of it, I still felt somehow skeptical about what music therapy could actually do, and I was doubting its efficacy even in the first term of training.

Looking back, I would have loved to have had a sort of half way house, a way to learn about whether music therapy could be right for me, and how it worked without necessarily going the whole hog.

If you’ve ever wondered whether music therapy could be your next step, I’ve created a free mini guide to help you explore what this modality involves and whether it’s something that could be a beautiful new direction. 7 signs that you could be a music therapist…

We would love to help you on the first steps in an amazing new direction.

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