Case Studies

A personal insight into a music therapist’s experience with music therapy for World Music Therapy Week

Clare Maddocks, Neurologic Music Therapist at Chroma highlights the main benefits she finds from delivering neurologic music therapy sessions to brain injury survivors and those living with neurological conditions: “Since 2021, 90 rehab & complex care clients have accessed weekly […]

World Music Therapy Week 2023

This World Music Therapy Week, we’d like to share some of our therapists thoughts (and feedback received) concerning music therapy and the benefits it has upon participants: Music therapy through the eyes of a music therapist: “Music therapy is highly […]

How visualisation can help support emotional wellbeing

Imagination may hold the key to improved quality of life as it can help alter perceptions of difficult issues in a positive way. Chroma Dramatherapist and mindfulness practitioner Katy Weston implements guided visualisation into her sessions, in essentially the same […]

Benefits of Dramatherapy for people living with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Traumatic Brain Injury survivors suffer cognitive and functional impairments. Katy Weston is a experienced Dramatherapist at Chroma working with TBI survivors. Recently, Katy began working with a client who sustained a catastrophic brain injury. The client is non-verbal, uses a […]

Music Therapists at The Portland Hospital help motivate young children through their rehab journey

Music Therapy is being adopted at The Portland Hospital to encourage young children with Cerebral Palsy who have undergone Spinal Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR), to improve participation during post-operative physiotherapy sessions. SDR is a specialised neurosurgery that treats lower limb muscle […]

Chroma delivers Arts Therapies at Pathfield School

By Lucy Collings Pettit, Neurologic Music Therapist, Chroma Pathfield School, a special school in North Devon, recently decided to partner with Chroma, the UK’s leading provider of arts therapies. Building upon the success of the existing music therapy provision within […]

Music Therapy offers unique opportunity to tackle care home isolation

Voyage Care, a specialist residential care home provider, and arts therapy experts Chroma, have taken a unique approach to tackle isolation amongst residents by delivering music therapy sessions. Voyage Care’s supported living apartments in Lorenzo Drive, Liverpool offers occupants all […]

How Chroma’s therapists change lives for people living with a Traumatic Brain Injury

The work of Chroma’s therapists is invaluable to the lives of those living with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).  Suffering a TBI can affect people in different ways. In some cases, the patient can be affected so severely that they […]

Chroma Therapists changing lives of people who suffered a Stroke

Every patient seen by a Chroma is different. Each day is never the same. That’s certainly the case for Lucy, who suffered a stroke. She presented to A&E with dense left-sided weakness, aphasia and vomiting. CT scans revealed that she […]

Random Acts of Kindness Day

By Rachel Swanick, music therapist, Chroma There have been lots of discussions on kindness in the past weeks – in the media, on social media, in life. As healthcare professionals, we are always kind, right? We always look at both […]

Why music is the key that unlocks family problems

Rachel Swanick, senior music therapist at Chroma, introduces a dynamic new approach to assessing nonverbal communication in families.  In this age of strained healthcare resources, all therapists must be able to quickly and succinctly evidence their value. In the neurologic […]

Adventures in Neurologic Music Therapy

Chroma’s Rebekah Keenan charts her journey from musician to respected member of the multidisciplinary neuro-rehab team. Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) provides specific, individualised and standardised interventions for people with brain injury or neurological conditions. It is distinct from traditional music […]

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