Claire Kelly

Claire joined Richmond Music Trust in 2019 after qualifying as a music therapist at the University of Roehampton. She delivers sessions at the studio in Twickenham and in the community, in family homes, schools and care homes. She works with adults with mental health needs and learning disabilities and with looked-after and adopted children, and children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and disabilities.

Outside RMT, Claire provides music therapy at a service for adults with visual impairment and learning disabilities. She has previously worked with children with life-limiting conditions and their families in a children’s hospice, where she also supervised music therapy students on clinical placement. In all of her work she has experienced the power of music to connect people and help them to express themselves, when words are absent or are not enough.

Claire is a classically-trained singer and pianist, singing regularly in choral concerts across the South-East of England. She studied music at university before pursuing a career in BBC Radio and TV production, and in corporate communications, prior to training as a music therapist.

Claire is approved to offer clinical supervision by the British Association of Music Therapy. She is studying for the Certificate in Supervision with the Centre of Supervision and Team Development (CSTD).