Ep 30 Cathy Warner

In podcast 30, Cathy Warner has a conversation with Luke about
music therapy clinical supervision.


Cathy is a music therapy trainer and practitioner. As both an
improvising and classical musician she’s a cellist and pianist
and has orchestral and choral conducting experience mainly of
classical repertoire. She has been the Course Leader for MA Music
Therapy at the University of the West of England in Bristol for 5
years, developing the part time training Leslie Bunt established
in the early 90s. As a music therapist she’s particularly
interested in group work and has facilitated music therapy
community groups for people with severe mental health needs for a
number of years. This follows an earlier career in music therapy
neurorehabilitation and NHS work with adults with learning
disabilities. Cathy has a long standing interest in participatory
research methods, and used action research to involve people with
learning disabilities and no spoken language as active
researchers in her PhD project.  More recently she has been
involved in two European funded ERASMUS+ projects, the LINK and
STALWARTS projects, which together with other partner countries
have developed ways that teachers and social educators can use
ethical and practical frameworks to incorporate music into
teaching to support emotional and relational health, particularly
for marginalised young people affected by early trauma. From this
she has helped develop two CPD distance learning modules that
will train teachers and health professionals to establish the
ethical and practical frameworks to incorporate musical into a
more relational style of teaching any subject.


Continuing professional development is an area of great interest
to Cathy, and six years ago she established a bespoke supervision
training for music therapists which runs yearly, and is designed
for working music therapists, requiring attendance just one day
per month over 8 months. The focus is on the use of music within
the supervision process itself. Cathy has concerns about the lack
of supervision infrastructure within the profession. She is
particularly keen on the under-used benefits of peer supervision.
Cathy leads quite a busy life with two teenage sons, and finding
the reflective space to deeply reflect on therapeutic processes
is of central importance to her.


Link to CPD course:


https://courses.uwe.ac.uk/USPKJD30M/supervision-training-for-music-therapists