August 24th, 2010 | 
Music therapy at Coda Music works with children, young people and adults with a wide range of disabilities living in Dorset and Hampshire and beyond. Music Therapy at Coda Music is delivered by fully qualified Music Therapists. It is a clinical service and is about making a difference to participants’ emotional, physical, and mental health & well being through the medium of music. It is about using music to reach the hardest to reach and to change people’s lives and the way they adapt to, feel, relate and operate in the world in which they live. Music therapy is known to draw on our innate responsiveness to music. Music contains elements of expressive communication (e.g. rhythm, pitch & pulse) and can also elicit emotional responses, stimulate auditory/ tactile senses, trigger memories, moods & feeling. Music also provides an organisational framework to help initiate, build and strengthen movements, actions or speech.
Music Therapy takes place both at the Coda Music Centre near Christchurch and New Milton – and in the community, working with organisations on their own sites. The Music Therapy service provides individual and group music therapy, interventions, assessments, community outreach as well as advice and information about the use of music therapy.
Coda Music therapists are Members of the Association of Professional Music Therapists and are registered through the Health Professions Council.
Coda works with people with a very wide range of disabilities including those with rare and distressing conditions:
- autistic spectrum disorders including severe autism
- neurological damage due to illness/accident
- degenerative conditions
- sensory and physical impairment
- learning disabilities
- dementia & Alzheimer’s Disease
- mental health and emotional and behavioral challenges
- chronic and terminal conditions
Coda is happy to take referrals from individuals or their families/care workers and from local authorities, care homes, health clinics or other organisations.
To discuss your needs or for a referral form please Contact Coda Music.
The following short film illustrates the work we do at Coda and the potential benefit of Music Therapy.
Outreach Music Therapy
In recent years we have delivered both pilot and long-term music therapy services in a range of settings including Montacute School, Poole; Linwood School, Bournemouth; Purbeck Care, Dorset, Wallisdown Heights Adult Day Care Centre, Poole; And Christchurch Hospital's Stroke Rehabilitation Unit. We are always keen to discuss with you the provision of Music Therapy on your own sites and welcome any enquiries. Please get in touch here or by calling us on 01425 276161.