Connect Music Therapy

We love seeing how creative our school groups can be during improvisations! We use improvisation to explore big emotions in our sessions 🎵 🎹 🪘

Thank you so much to the RCSI hospital group for having us present at their Neonatal Network Group meeting about our current work and research in Cavan Special Care Baby Unit. It was so great to connect with the experts in this field!

How it started VS how its going! 🌈
Addressing attention and focus, cognitive functioning and motor skills through musical motivation 🧠

A little insight into a day in the life of our project in the Special Care Baby Unit in Cavan General, written by our wonderful Lead Therapist Molly!

Music Therapy in a Special Care Baby Unit Connect Music Therapy Ireland work in the Special Care Baby Unit in Cavan hospital and describe a day in the life of a Music Therapist.

We use specific interventions in our sessions to help clients post brain injury to restore their speech, as natural speech is inherently musical 🎵 🧠

Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves Breakthrough raises hopes that musicality of natural speech can be restored in patients with disabling neurological conditions

We are thrilled to introduce our new service in the Special Care Baby Unit at Cavan General Hospital!

Music therapy provides so many benefits to this population and we are looking forward to researching this area further alongside Cavan General

3 years between these photos and we are still continuing to build a positive relationship each week through music 🎶
Feeling so blessed to be able to work long term with some wonderful people and be a small part of their story 📖

The healing power of a good beat: Neurologic music therapy helps kids with brain injuries Neurologic music therapy appears to help those with some diseases, and new research suggests, kids with brain injuries improve their walking.

Patient's paralysis syndrome is 'cured' by listening to The Carpenters hits Ian Palmer, 71, suffered near-total paralysis and speech impairment as he was struck down by Guillain-Barre syndrome in June last year - but when medics suggested music therapy, he was sceptical

Happy World Music Therapy Week!!
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We love exploring a range of instruments with our clients. This especially helps children with autism with sensory integration and it promotes their tolerance of different noises, volumes, and textures.
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The instruments you can see here are the steel drum, ocean drum, xylophone, and hand bells. These are just some of the instruments used during sessions.
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We also love to incorporate other sensory experiences in our music therapy sessions, such as bubbles, scarves, parachutes, lights etc to promote acceptance of tactile and visual elements, along with auditory. It can also be a very calming experience.

Happy World Music Therapy Week! 🌎 🎶

We are so grateful to our Connect team and all of our clients for the wonderful work taking place each week across London and Ireland 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 We are excited to share more of our work with you across the coming week as we celebrate our profession 🎶

Happy Paddy’s Day!!🍀🇮🇪🌈
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Wishing everyone all the love and luck of the Irish this St. Patrick’s day, wherever you are in this world!

We are so thrilled to welcome the wonderful Effrosyni (Froso) to our team!
Read more about Froso on our website (link in bio)

We love our music therapy sessions with the two younger autism classes at Skerries .together school!
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Our music therapist, Ella, works with the children to promote turn-taking, listening skills, speech and communication, and sensory stimulation.

"Music therapy really can be an immensely transformative and life-altering tool for improving the quality of life for people with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease."

Music Therapy for Dementia: Tools for Improving Quality of Life | Help, Dementia! | NewsBreak Original Dementia and Alzheimer's disease are such incredibly complex conditions that affect memory, cognitive abilities, and mood. It can be incredibly challenging for those who suffer from dementia, as well as for their caregivers and loved ones. However, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests m...

Music therapy: Writing music brought the joy back after amputation Tim suffered brain injuries and lost an arm after trying to take his own life in 2020.

Our wonderful Molly will be facilitating these Christmas themed Music Therapy groups in Carrickmacross next week 🎄 🎅 🔔

Don't forget to sign up for our Christmas Music Therapy session with Molly at Carrickmacross Library this Tuesday. Tell all your family and friends and book your space by contacting us on 087-186-7224 or emailing [email protected]. 🥰

Today marked the end of our time at the wonderful Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre, where we provided music therapy for the locals on Tuesdays over the past 3 years. Unfortunately the centre now has to close after many years of providing day services to older adults in the area.

We created these CDs for each of the group members, which contain songs that have become really special to us within our Tuesday group. Something to help remember the special relationships formed in a very special place 🎶 💿

Social Inclusion Session✨
A recent session at Carricacross library as a part of social inclusion initiative. Such a lovely morning of music with all the children from DSCNE and children from the local community 🎵

A very chilled end to our session 😌 💤 🎶

Music therapy with our wonderful Molly at The Down Syndrome Centre North East 🎵🥁

Music Therapy Individual classes now available on Tuesdays, a one to one session with Molly were child and Therapist build a relationship together through freely exploring the musical instruments, through singing familiar songs, and through the spontaneous use of voice.😍🥁🎼🎵

For information on time slots available please contact the centre. 💗

Join us on Instagram () this Thursday as we talk all things music therapy! Feel free to leave your questions below and chat to us whether you’re a therapist, student or just interested in hearing more about Music therapy 🎶

When Nick the Fox joins the session 🦊🎵

We love seeing the different ways that our little ones create music within our sessions 🥰🎵

⭐️Our sessions look so different across the week from family homes, day services, nursing homes schools and much more. This photo captures a bedside session faciliatated in in a childrens residential home.

⭐️Here we are using the drum with a child who is non-verbal and giving an opportunity to express herself in a way that is accessible to her.

Very excited to be starting back with tomorrow in Swords!
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Snowflakes is an autism support group.
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Music therapy sessions with the Snowflakes are focused around building social-emotional, cognitive, communication, and functional skills for each child.
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Some activities that we often use to work on these skills are hello and goodbye songs, instrument instruction songs, offering song and instrument choices, movement, speech-focused, sensory, and listening activities, as well as playing a variety of instruments. ❄️