Methodology
Music therapy is based on knowledge and experience obtained from psychology, special needs education, psychotherapy, the medical professions, musicology, music psychology and musical practice.
Music therapy methodology is founded in a respectful and appreciative attitude towards patients. All music therapy interventions involve careful consideration of the mutual feedback process in the therapeutic relationship, with all of its various characteristics and dynamic elements.Along with the medium of music (improvisation, songs, composed instrumental music), music therapy also addresses aspects of language (language games, expression of imagination, discussions) and the body (perception of one's own body, relaxation exercises, movement). Here, psychodynamic and functionally focused approaches complement one another. Depending on the given therapeutic requirements, music therapy treatments are carried out actively (patient plays an instrument, sings, moves to music) and/or receptively (therapist plays for the patient, who listens). Non-verbal experiences are also discussed and reflected upon in conversations wherever this is possible and useful.