Working in cancer care
I have worked as a music therapist in a cancer care centre in North London since 2012, supporting both adults and children with cancer, as well as family members.
This work includes individual sessions and group programmes, and often involves working not only with patients, but with parents, partners, children and sometimes grandparents.
In this context, music therapy can offer a space for expression, connection and emotional support during treatment, recovery and at the end of life, as well as in bereavement.
Music can provide ways of communicating and connecting at times when words may be difficult, helping people to process experience, maintain relationships and find moments of meaning and stability within challenging circumstances.
Inevitably, this experience informs my work in care homes, where many residents and families are also affected by cancer and its wider impact.