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A Light-Hearted Journey Through Music Therapy

37 episodes. 9 months of reflections. Not a tutorial, not a course — a gym for music therapy thinking. Every episode with full transcript.

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The music therapist is a functional musician

Not a stage virtuoso, but a functional musician who cultivates their musicality every day and puts it at the service of the relationship.

37 episodes, all with full transcript

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#017 January 2020

Defining music therapy

For me, music therapy is essentially a space. It's the space where I learned to be TRUE...

#0214 January 2020

Music therapy types

What motivations drive a person to study music therapy? I've created six macro types...

#0321 January 2020

The lifelong questions in music therapy

What are the questions that someone in music therapy will be asked throughout their entire life...

#0428 January 2020

White coat or no white coat in music therapy?

Do I wear a white coat when I do music therapy? My answer is no...

#054 February 2020

Can you make a living doing music therapy?

I'll tell you right away that my answer is Yes. Here is my decalogue to get to the end of the month...

#0611 February 2020

Is it music therapist or music psychotherapist?

The ultimate question. The one you can't avoid. The most popular...

#0718 February 2020

Does music therapy work?

Let me clear the field right away: my answer is a full and total yes...

#0825 February 2020

How much does music therapy cost?

Today we talk about money! My personal cost algorithm...

#093 March 2020

Repertoire yes or repertoire no?

A particularly liquid and mutating topic...

#1010 March 2020

The numbers of music therapy

VAT number, PEC, unique code and all those things nobody talks about...

#1117 March 2020

Songwriting in music therapy

Composing songs as a music therapy intervention strategy...

#1224 March 2020

The piano in music therapy

10 pros and 10 cons regarding the use of the piano...

#1331 March 2020

The guitar in music therapy

10 pros and only 7 cons! The guitar wins...

#147 April 2020

Community Music Therapy

How can this name be translated into Italian?

#1514 April 2020

Music therapy in the time of Covid

What I've done, what I'm doing and what I can do...

#1621 April 2020

Which instruments for music therapy in 2020

Which devices are available to those who do this job...

#1728 April 2020

Acoustic or digital?

Technology in music therapy...

#185 May 2020

Music therapy in a team: is it possible?

Doing this job alone or in company...

#1912 May 2020

Training: nature or nurture?

Are the new generations more inclined?

#2019 May 2020

I miss a normal job

The wonderful volatility of the job we do...

#2126 May 2020

The workout for improv in music therapy

How to stay ready for improvisation...

#222 June 2020

What a history music therapy has!

530 slides on the history of music therapy in Italy...

#239 June 2020

Candidate not suitable for music therapy

When nothing goes smoothly...

#2416 June 2020

Top ten instruments for music therapy

My list of instruments to buy...

#2523 June 2020

Music therapy and the non-verbal

How do we present ourselves to the world?

#2630 June 2020

Selling myself: music therapy and the market

What market is there for music therapists?

#277 July 2020

Evidence-based music therapy

How to document our work...

#2814 July 2020

Listen to this and you'll see it passes...

Is there a good music for everyone?

#2921 July 2020

Studying music therapy

Where to study? There are many possibilities...

#3028 July 2020

Supervision and music therapy

I question what I choose to be...

#314 August 2020

Music therapy feuds

I don't want to be right, I want to be happy...

#3211 August 2020

Bologna: capital of music therapy

The 2026 WFMT World Congress in Italy!

#3318 August 2020

Podcasts and music therapy: full steam ahead!

Is it worth moving forward? The numbers say...

#3425 August 2020

Sound portraits and clinical records

How I observe as a musician...

#351 September 2020

Three, two, one ...go!

How do you start your meeting?

#368 September 2020

Music therapies: races and racisms

Do you smell this stench too?

#3715 September 2020

The beauty of the beginning

The final episode. 9 months together. A gestation.