Ep 42 Marianne Rizkallah

Marianne Rizkallah is the Director and Head Music Therapist at
North London Music Therapy, 'Music Therapy Outreach and
Enterprise Tutor' for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama,
and the Vice Chair of the British Association for Music Therapy.


Founded in 2018, North London Music Therapy provides music
therapy for anyone, of any age, with a mental health condition
such as stress, anxiety or depression. NLMT provides music
therapy for individuals and groups, designs and delivers
workshops for the corporate market, and provides further training
and CPD for qualified and trainee music therapists. NLMT
specialises in long-term work, and believes that therapy should
be offered for as long as someone feels they need it, running
counter to the prevailing therapy model in the UK.


As a music therapist, Marianne has worked with clients aged from
1 to 100, with conditions as varied as psychosis, autism,
learning disabilities and dementia. For NLMT, she works with
clients with anxiety.


Marianne is also a professional singer and vocal coach, and
recently founded her own choir, the Nuestra Singers.


In this interview, Marianne talks about the experience of drawing
up lockdown guidelines for BAMT, about the responses of NLMT to
COVID-19 and how her psychotherapeutic stance has influenced her
music therapy practice in this time.


Website: www.northlondonmusictherapy.com


Facebook: www.facebook.com/northlondonmusictherapy


Twitter: www.facebook.com/NLmusictherapy


Instagram: www.instagram.com/northlondonmusictherapy