Graham Music
Psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor, lecturer & author
I offer psychotherapy to adults, children, young people, families as well as supervision.
I work in private practice and the NHS, and have worked at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics for over 15 years. I teach and lecture on various courses in the UK and abroad, lecture internationally, and have published widely, in academic journals, and edited and sole-authored books.
Publications
Below are a selection of Graham Music’s books.
For more visit the publications page.
Respark – Now on sale eg here!
Igniting hope and joy after trauma and depression
“This book is absolutely brilliant, beautifully written, with a fantastic central metaphor about sparking and those who have lost spark.”
Dr. Karen Treisman. MBE, TedX speaker, author
How can we respark hope and joy after depression and trauma? Acclaimed psychotherapist and trauma expert, Graham Music, distills decades of experience into a road-map for reigniting zest and optimism in troubled adults and children.
In these challenging times many feel unmotivated, listless and have lost their mojo. Some have retreated after trauma, others are depressed, or succumb to addictive temptations such as screens. Too many have lost both ease and enthusiasm.
Weaving cutting-edge science, therapeutic wisdom, and deep humanity, Music uses fascinating tales from the consulting room and life to outline the steps needed in each case to regenerate confidence and desire.
Whether you are a therapist, professional, parent, or just looking to find inspiration, this book offers a captivating and hope-filled journey, showing how we can rediscover vitality and passion to live richer lives.
Nurturing Children
“Dr Music is certainly one of the best and probably the most deep thinking child psychotherapists in the world. This beautiful book distills decades of neuro-clinical thinking, interpreting children’s and young people’s experience and behavior in terms of the most applicable and scientifically credible models of mind. …I could not recommend a book more strongly.”
Professor Peter Fonagy OBE, UCL;
Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre
Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis alongside modern developmental thinking from neurobiology, attachment and trauma theory and mindfulness, Music creates his own distinctive blend of approaches to help even the most traumatised of children.
A mix of personal accounts and therapeutic riches, Nurturing Children will appeal to anyone helping children, young people and families to lead fuller lives.
Affect and Emotion
This small volume is a fully revised and updated edition of a book first published by the Freud Museum. It illustrates how psychoanalytic insights get to the heart of our emotional and affective lives. The central message is that a good understanding of emotions enables us to tolerate a broader range of experiences, both positive and negative, and enhances our capacity to live fuller and richer lives.
Nurturing Natures
This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children’s emotional development. Integrating a wealth of both up-to-date and classical research from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience developmental psychology and cross-cultural studies, it weaves these into an accessible enjoyable text which always keeps in mind children recognisable to academics, practitioners and parents.
Upcoming Events
Below is a list of events that Graham Music will be speaking at or which Graham Music will deliver as a trainer.
When to Be Brave & When to Stay Safe – Working with Child Trauma
Organiser: Adoption PlusLocation: online
Early Years Conference Cornwall
A 2 day conference for early years practitioners in Cornwall
Organiser: Together for Families CornwallLocation: Wadebridge Pavilion
Working with Trauma related Attachment in Short-term work
Part of a series from Birkbeck on short term work with young opeople
Organiser: BirkbeckLocation: online
Resparking: Working courageously with trauma and neglect
A days training on trauma and neglect and when clients need help regulating and when they can benefit from challenge
Organiser: Brighton Therapy partnershipLocation: online
Lecture in Trauma Series
Casppari talks
Organiser: Caspari FoundationCCPE in-house training, on attachment and the brain
Training child psychotherapy trainees
Organiser: CCPELocation: CCPE
Videos
Here is a selection of videos where Graham Music discusses areas of counselling and psychotherapy, his books and current topics.
Interview with Charlie Rosier about the importance of the first 1001 days of life
Book review of Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis:
Susan Cain Bittersweet1 minute book review, no 2
1 minute book review , Johan Hari: Stolen Focus
Psychology research and child development blog
In Graham Music’s blog he critically introduces, and contextualises, new research findings from developmental research, neuroscience, attachment theory and other areas of psychology that are topical or are likely to whet the appetite of anyone interested.
In praise of glimmering
I take some inspiration from psychoanalyst Josh Cohen’s book, Not Working, mentioned in the newsletter, which is written in praise of inactivity and a healthy form of idleness...
Woke or awake: Choosing openness and curiosity over certainty and rigidity
I I have found myself more fearful than usual about putting things out there recently. Although I do quite a lot in the public sphere, talks, papers, books, some social media, I...
May Newsletter
Spring is actually here Tree hugging with precious fleeting cherry blossom. .. IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE and please forward to anyone who might be interested, or if you so desire, unsubscribe at the bottom Welcome to my May newsletter. I am...
Newsletter: Spring is actually here
Spring is actually here Kenwood blossom and daffodils IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE and please forward to anyone who might be interested, or if you so desire,...
February blog and newsletter: Article by Adam Goren, book reviews, podcasts, other writing, jokes and the theme of Owls
Cool spiral on seafront in Ramsgate | Spring is near, yay!! Flying owls in kent, this was so exciting So in honour, here is an owl haiku by Issa In the owl’s opinion Every day...
Daring to Trust the Internal Lifegiver
Courage, hope, determination, even aggression – such traits drive us forward, and are allied to the fight rather than the flight, freeze or flop responses. Yet they have also...
What I offer
I have undertaken extensive trainings as both an adult and a child and adolescent psychotherapist. I work with adults and parents in private practice and with children and adolescents primarily in the NHS. I have worked at the Tavistock Clinic in London for over a decade, an internationally renowned NHS Foundation Trust which provides clinical services and trains therapists and other professionals. I teach on the child psychotherapy and other psychological therapy courses at the Tavistock, and supervises therapists there. I also lead on training in child development, neuroscience and attachment theory, and have a particular interest in linking cutting-edge developmental findings with therapeutic practice. My clinical work in the NHS is primarily with issues of trauma and the effect of maltreatment on children as well as on the families and other adults in the lives of such children.
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🎉So good to see the mental health of babies included in the @cypmhc strategy and new manifesto. Giving babies the same rights as older children 👏
Also, using the language "babies, children and young people" throughout 👏
Threat leads to a turning inwards, away from connection, from trust and hope.
- @grahammusic1
i know i keep banging on about it but how amazing is the human newborn.. innate capacity for perception of musical beats ..
Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition...
Newborn infants have been shown to extract temporal regularities from sound sequences, both in the form of learning ...
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Not good .. NHS anxiety and depression therapy inaccessible for some autistic people #neurodiversity #autism #anxiety #depression
NHS anxiety and depression therapy inaccessible for some autistic people
New study finds that therapies are less effective for autistic adults and more difficult to access for a variety of reasons
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As if we need them, more reasons to support vulnerable parents and use ACEs sensitively .. Caregiver #ACEs and and preschool externalizing behaviours
Caregiver adverse childhood experiences and preschool externalizing problems: The role of factors...
Preschool children with externalizing problems are at risk for short- and long-term difficulties and preschool externali...
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Interesting but also dangerous territory given the false memory lobby ..The ‘Mandela Effect:’ A Psychologist Explains Collective False Memories
The ‘Mandela Effect:’ A Psychologist Explains Collective False Memories
Research highlights how collective false memories, a mystery that pushes the boundaries of science, challenge our understanding and defy explanation.
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Get in Contact
Graham Music is located near Tufnell Park underground station, easily accessed from Kentish Town, Islington, Highgate, Archway, Camden, Holloway, Finsbury Park (N1, N7, N19, N5, NW1, NW3, NW5).