Online Music Therapy
I offer online music therapy to English-speaking clients internationally, including the United States, the UK, and across Europe, alongside in-person sessions in Berlin, where I'm based. This work is especially suited for people who feel underserved by conventional talk therapy, or who want therapy that takes identity, neurodivergence, and creative life seriously, in ways that go beyond words alone.
Sessions are conducted entirely online for remote clients, making this work accessible regardless of where you live, how often you travel, or whether there's an English-speaking therapist anywhere near you.
Who This Work Is For
Online music therapy may be a good fit if you are:
- A musician, writer, or other creative professional navigating creative block, performance anxiety, or the instability of a creative career
- Queer, LGBTQIA+, or seeking explicitly queer-affirming therapy
- Neurodivergent, including autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD
- Living internationally, whether as an expat, a touring musician, or someone whose work moves you between countries
- Burned out, emotionally overwhelmed, or feeling disconnected from yourself
A Different Approach Than Traditional Talk Therapy
Many people come to this work after finding that traditional therapy did not fully meet their needs. While online music therapy may look similar to talk therapy on the surface, the difference lies in how music is intentionally woven into the therapeutic process.
Sessions are primarily conversation-based and focus on what feels most important or pressing for you in the moment. My role is not to give advice or solutions, but to offer structure, reflection, and support as you clarify your own goals, insights, and direction. We identify broader therapeutic goals together, then work toward them through smaller, more concrete objectives that we regularly check in on.
As a music therapist, and a musician myself, I am thinking about how music, sound, listening, or creative processes might support emotional regulation, self-understanding, executive functioning, or expression, both inside and outside of sessions. Learn more about music therapy or about working specifically with musicians and creative professionals.
What Online Music Therapy Looks Like in Practice
Online music therapy sessions are live, secure video meetings. Most sessions involve conversation, reflection, and processing, with music used intentionally to support the themes that arise. Rather than making music live together on screen, music is often explored through listening, discussion, and creative projects completed between sessions, then discussed together afterward, what feelings came up, what the work represents, what it revealed.
You will never be put on the spot or pressured to make or share music. Sharing creative work is always optional. If and when you choose to share something, it is approached with care, curiosity, and respect, including unfinished or unpolished ideas.
Between sessions, I may offer prompts, listening exercises, or longer-term creative projects that align with your goals. These might include:
- Creating playlists for emotional regulation, energy management, or grounding
- Listening to music with specific intentions, such as noticing patterns, shifts in attention, or emotional responses
- Reflecting on meaningful songs from different life periods as a bridge to unresolved experiences or identity questions
- Chance operations, indeterminacy, or constraint-based creative exercises for working through creative block or perfectionism
- Creative prompts using sound, songwriting, field recordings, or music production to explore themes like masking, burnout, or self-expression
Sessions often involve discussing what came up emotionally, cognitively, or creatively during these activities, and how they connect to your broader goals and lived experiences.
Working with Musicians and Creative Professionals
It is common, especially for musicians and other creative professionals, to feel blocked, disconnected, or burned out at certain points. Touring, irregular income, injury, professional pressure, or simply the accumulated weight of depending on your own output can all shift your relationship with your own creative work.
This is an area I work in directly, both because I see it often in practice and because I've lived versions of it myself as a musician. Sessions may draw on chance operations and indeterminacy, Deep Listening, or constraint-based creative exercises, alongside more conventional processing, to help loosen the grip of perfectionism and reconnect with why the work mattered to you in the first place. Read more about therapy for musicians and creative professionals.
Supporting Burnout, Masking, and Emotional Regulation
Music can offer a nonverbal entry point into experiences that are difficult to articulate. For example, discussions around masking and unmasking may be paired with creative exercises that represent different internal states through sound. The focus is not on conforming, but on understanding yourself more deeply and finding ways to feel safer and more authentic across different environments.
For emotional regulation, we might explore how different types of music serve different needs. Some songs help validate feelings, while others help redirect attention. Intentional listening can support nervous system regulation rather than overwhelm.
Music can also support executive functioning. Learning or working with music, focused listening exercises, or breaking a process down into steps all involve selective attention, sequencing, motor coordination, and planning, skills that carry over directly into daily functioning.
A Collaborative and Affirming Space
This work is collaborative. Sometimes sessions are more open and reflective; other times they may be more structured, depending on your needs and preferences. I adapt the approach together with you over time.
As a therapist who is part of the queer and neurodivergent community, I aim to offer care that is affirming, respectful, and attentive to issues of masking, communication differences, and safety. The goal is not to change who you are, but to deepen self-understanding, self-acceptance, and capacity to navigate the world in ways that feel sustainable.
How Progress Is Approached
Growth in therapy is rarely linear. Rather than focusing only on outcomes, we return regularly to your broader goals and the smaller, measurable objectives that support them. Each prompt, intervention, or project is designed to serve those objectives and help you move toward greater clarity, agency, and understanding over time.
Where Sessions Are Available
I'm based in Berlin, Germany, and see clients in person here. Online, I work with English-speaking clients internationally, including throughout the United States, the UK, and across Europe. If you're touring, living abroad, or simply not near an English-speaking therapist, online sessions are built for exactly that.
A note on logistics: I'm not able to bill insurance directly, and international mental health coverage is uncommon even with expat or travel policies, so sessions are private pay. I'm happy to provide a receipt or superbill for you to submit to your own insurer, if that's useful, though whether it's reimbursed depends entirely on your plan.
Values and Therapeutic Orientation
My work is grounded in a neurodiversity-affirming, queer-affirming, and non-pathologizing perspective. I take a humanistic and relational approach, prioritizing safety, collaboration, and respect for each person's lived experience.
Therapy is not about fixing or correcting you. It is about creating space to understand yourself, reconnect with your inner resources, and explore what supports your well-being in a way that feels authentic and sustainable.
Privacy, Data Security, and Use of Technology
Privacy and data protection are central to my practice. All online sessions are conducted using secure, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) tools chosen specifically for confidentiality and safety.
No session recordings are made. Clinical notes, emails, and any personal information are handled with care and are accessible only to you and me as your therapist.
I do not use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe, analyze, or process sessions, notes, or client communications. Client data is E2EE and never shared with AI systems or third parties.
This work prioritizes trust, autonomy, and human presence. Your information remains yours.
Next Steps
If this approach resonates with you, you can learn more about working together or reach out to schedule an initial conversation. I offer a free 30-minute consultation to discuss your goals and see whether it feels like a good fit for you. I aim to make the process transparent, supportive, and aligned with your needs from the start.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Online sessions are available to English-speaking clients internationally, including the United States, the UK, and across Europe. I'm based in Berlin and see clients in person there, but online work isn't limited to Europe or to any particular region.
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Generally, no. Most health insurance plans, including US plans, don't cover therapy from a provider based in another country, and international coverage for mental health care is rare even with expat insurance policies. Sessions are private pay. On request, I can provide a receipt or superbill you can submit to your insurer, though reimbursement isn't guaranteed and depends entirely on your specific plan.
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For most of the work, yes. Active, in-the-room music-making is naturally easier in person, but a lot of this work happens through conversation, reflection, listening, and creative projects between sessions, all of which translate well online. Many clients find the format itself, being in their own space, makes certain things easier to access, not harder.
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In most cases, yes. Sessions can continue as you travel or relocate, and this format works well for touring musicians, digital nomads, and people who move for work. If you relocate somewhere with specific legal restrictions on receiving therapy from abroad, that's worth flagging on our first call so we can look into it together.
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We work it out directly based on your schedule and mine. I see clients across a range of time zones, including the US, and can usually find a recurring slot that holds up even with a significant time difference.
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Yes, and this is one of the areas I work in most. Sessions with musicians, writers, and other creative professionals can include chance operations, indeterminacy, Deep Listening, and constraint-based creative exercises alongside more conventional processing, all of which work fine in an online format.
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Yes. All online sessions use end-to-end encrypted tools, and no session data, notes, or emails are shared with AI or third parties. Confidentiality is maintained between each client and me.
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Musicians and other creative professionals, autistic and ADHD adults, LGBTQIA+ clients, and anyone looking for a creative, humanistic alternative to conventional talk therapy. No musical experience is required, and sessions are adapted to each person's needs.
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Typical sessions are 50 minutes. Weekly sessions are standard, but biweekly arrangements are available, and can also flex around touring or irregular schedules.
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My approach is humanistic, creative, and neurodiversity-affirming, and draws directly on my own background as a musician working with experimental and generative composition. Rather than following a fixed CBT protocol, sessions are built around exploration, expression, and strategies suited to you specifically.
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Sessions begin with a free 30-minute consultation and can start soon afterward, depending on your schedule.
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The first step is a free 30-minute consultation where we talk about what brought you to music therapy, what you're hoping to explore, and whether working together feels like a good fit. There's no pressure and no musical performance involved, just a conversation to see if this is right for you.