Rosie Axon
Trustee/Director
Rosie founded Chiltern Music Therapy in 2011 and has previously worked as a Music Therapist at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability and with the NHS Learning Disability Community and Forensic Team in Hertfordshire. She specialises in using music therapy with people of all ages, with brain injury and neuro-disability. She is a certified Neurologic Music Therapist, a Neonatal Intensive Care Music Therapist and a certified MATADOC assessor (Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness). She is passionate about inclusivity in music opportunities for children and young people with additional needs and is also keen to establish more research into how music can improve their lives.
Chiltern Music Therapy is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a music therapy service to people of all ages and currently provides services to the South East and London. Rosie and her team of Music Therapists see clients of all ages, from infants, right through to the older adult population and work with those with Learning Disabilities, including Autism and Asperger’s, Brain injury, Dementia, Mental-health and emotional difficulties, stroke & Parkinson’s disease sufferers and those with life-threatening illnesses. They use music and Music Therapy to help clients improve their health and emotional well- being and develop skills in speech & communication, behavioural issues, cognition and motor skills.
