Qualifications and Experience
- Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London validated by City University (2004)
- Bachelor of Music in harp performance, The Juilliard School, New York
Rivka is a registered mental health practioner with BAPAM and is experienced in working with musicians, actors, musical theatre performers and performing arts students. She can help with issues relating to anxiety, depression, performance anxiety, stress, interpersonal dynamics, trauma, PTSD, Autism, communication difficulties and eating disorders.
Rivka currently works in private practice with children, adolescents and adults, both online and in person in North London. She also provides clinical supervision to qualified therapists and supervises Arts Therapies trainees (music, art and drama therapy) on clinical placement, as well as providing training, workshops and presentations. Please contact her to discuss your needs.
Rivka has been a Senior Music Therapist at North London Music Therapy, where she worked with children, adolescents and adults, and provided clinical supervision and service management.
Rivka has worked for Richmond Music Trust Outreach service and at JCoSS – the Jewish Community Secondary School in Barnet – with children and young people on the autistic spectrum.
Prior to this, Rivka worked for Ealing Music Therapy and for the NHS within Ealing Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities, based in a day centre specializing in challenging behaviour.
Rivka’s extensive clinical experience also includes working with women who have experienced domestic abuse, forensic psychiatric patients in a secure mental health unit, children suffering from life-limiting conditions at a children’s hospice, and young children at a special needs pre-school assessment unit.
What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a registered professional who has completed an approved, post-graduate Music Therapy training programme. It is a well-established allied health profession that uses music therapeutically to address behavioural, social, emotional psychological, communicative, physical, sensory-motor, and cognitive functioning.
In the United Kingdom, Music Therapists must be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council, and most are also members of the British Association for Music Therapy.
Contact
To arrange a consultation or for further information, please get in touch.
Rivka Gottlieb 