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About Maria:

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Maria is a classically trained cellist and has worked professionally in the music industry as a performer, teacher, lecturer and music therapist, giving her an insight into the pressures of the creative world and the difficulties of working in highly stressful, fast -paced environments. 

In her music therapy work she has experience in community and inpatient adult / older adult mental health settings, including people living with early and later onset dementia, children and adults with special needs, neurodivergent people, and those living with very complex physical disabilities. 

Maria is also a Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) practitioner, and a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, using the Continuum Model of GIM to help people explore their inner worlds.  She has a special interest in using GIM with musicians and performers struggling with stress, trauma, depression and anxiety, and those with complex pain.  GIM can also help with exploring the individuation process and transpersonal or spiritual aspects of life. Additionally she is trained in Breath Body Mind (BBM) techniques which can help balance over stressed nervous systems to prepare the client for deeper work. 

Publications
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 In press:  Approaching a New Threshold, Integrating Learning From Supervision Pre and Post Pandemic, in Music Therapy Supervision: Diverse Perspectives on its Cultures and Practices. Jessica Kingsley Publishing 2025

 

Skype Supervision and the liminal in the ‘journey of two’ published by Approaches International Journal, 2020. http://approaches.gr/radoje-r20200228

Where Were You Born? A Music Therapy Case Study, British Journal of Music Therapy, Volume 28, No. 2, 2014

Integrated Team Working; Chapter: Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities, Music Therapy and Psychology, a Joint Approach. Jessica Kingsley Publishing 2008

Qualifications and training:

Degree:

Performer’s Degree, Royal Academy of Music

Postgraduate Degrees:

Goldsmith’s Diploma in Orchestral Studies

University of Surrey, Roehampton, Music Therapy

MA:

Music Therapeutic Studies, University of the West of England

Post MA: 

Fellowship of the Association of Music and Imagery (FAMI)

Music  & Care Certificate (SMI)  

Music and Imagery Certificate (MI) 

Further  training:

  •  KUF Knowledge Skills Understanding Framework: Personality Disorder - NHS

  • Jungian Clinical Concepts - Centre for Applied Jung

  • Qualitative Research Methods - UCL

  • Basic Mentalization Based Treatment Training - ICAPT & Anna Freud Centre

  • Basic Dialectical Behaviour Training - NHS 

  • Certificate Programme - Creating Mandalas 

  • Breath Body Mind Teacher, Level 2

Professional Memberships and Practitioner Links: 


HCPC - Health and Care Professions Council, registration number: AS01571
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/

BAMT: British Association for Music Therapy 
https://www.bamt.org/

AMI: Association for Music and Imagery 
https://www.ami-bonnymethod.org/

MAIA The Music and Imagery Association of the UK and Ireland: 
https://www.musicandimagery.org/

BAPAM approved practitioner, working with performing artists:
https://www.bapam.org.uk/practitioner-directory/mrs-maria-radoje/

 

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