About
Music Therapy
Polly completed her Masters in Music Therapy at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011. She went on to work with older people with Dementia in the care home setting with Methodist Homes (MHA) for over 5 years. Currently she is Joint Head of Arts Therapies (B&L) for the East London NHS Foundation Trust in adult mental health and adult learning disability services. She also works for Music Therapy Bedfordshire with a varied caseload which includes adopted and looked-after-children with, and without learning disabilities.
Polly was a Trustee for the British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) from 2015-2020. She was passionate about this work and also coordinated the BAMT freelance network from 2018-2020.
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Additional Training/Experience
Performing
Polly plays 'cello, sax and sings in a wide range of music groups including folk collective Tribe of Tinkers, and 90’s cover band, The Cardigan Pimps. She also plays with the Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra, Bedford Sinfonia and has led choir and folk music workshops in schools and at festivals.
Teaching/Lecturing
Polly lectured to post-graduate students at the Royal College of Music in January 2019. The lecture was an introduction to music therapy as part of their Arts in Health elective.
She provided a CPD morning for the Bedford Counselling & Training and other Bedfordshire therapists in February 2019.
Polly has been involved in coaching and running music courses since the age of 18 when she joined her mother in coaching at Benslow Music Trust. This year (2018) she returned to Benslow to run their first introduction to music therapy course. The course will run again in July 2019. Check the Music Therapy and Teaching pages for further information.
Academia
Polly has written and presented papers at music therapy conferences including the Dementia and Music Therapy conference held at Anglia Ruskin University in 2016.
- IHI Quality Improvement (QI) Coaching Programme as part of her role at ELFT making her a Quality Improvement Project Coach
- ICAPT 2 day Mentalization in the Arts Therapies training
- Receptive Methods in music therapy.
Performing
Polly plays 'cello, sax and sings in a wide range of music groups including folk collective Tribe of Tinkers, and 90’s cover band, The Cardigan Pimps. She also plays with the Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra, Bedford Sinfonia and has led choir and folk music workshops in schools and at festivals.
Teaching/Lecturing
Polly lectured to post-graduate students at the Royal College of Music in January 2019. The lecture was an introduction to music therapy as part of their Arts in Health elective.
She provided a CPD morning for the Bedford Counselling & Training and other Bedfordshire therapists in February 2019.
Polly has been involved in coaching and running music courses since the age of 18 when she joined her mother in coaching at Benslow Music Trust. This year (2018) she returned to Benslow to run their first introduction to music therapy course. The course will run again in July 2019. Check the Music Therapy and Teaching pages for further information.
Academia
Polly has written and presented papers at music therapy conferences including the Dementia and Music Therapy conference held at Anglia Ruskin University in 2016.
