Qualifications and Experience

  • State Registration No. AS04597 (Health & Care Professions Council, UK)
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London validated by City University (2004)

Rivka is a Senior Music Therapist at North London Music Therapy, where she works with children and adults and provides clinical supervision and service management.

She has worked for Richmond Music Trust Outreach service and until 2018, worked at JCoSS – the Jewish Community Secondary School in Barnet – with children on the autistic spectrum for 7 years.

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.

In addition to the above, Rivka’s extensive clinical experience 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.

Rivka is trained in the use of Intensive Interaction, Makaton, and music technology. She also supervises student Arts Therapists (music, art and drama) on clinical placement, provides training and workshop presentations on Music Therapy and Intensive Interaction, and clinical supervision.

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

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