Mental Health and Sound Therapy Project

Free Sessions Offer for Local Well-being/Mental Health Community Groups

I am looking to run a series of short sound therapy sessions for free for specific groups whose focus is on helping those who are suffering from stress, anxiety, insomnia or mild depression and who have not experienced the benefits of therapeutic sound before. If you are part of a wellbeing/mental health community group or a group leader please get in touch and we can discuss the possibility of running a session for you.

This is a genuine and heartfelt wish to reach out to help those in need. This is an experiment to gauge the level of interest and to see if it can be of help to the community.

Suicide is the biggest killer for men under 50 years of age and I am looking to run these sessions in memory of a former friend and work colleague, Andrew Longworth, who took his own life afew years ago. I am hoping that by offering these sessions in his memory I can do some good to help others. I have the support of his family to do this work in his memory.

Sound therapy cannot cure depression but it can relieve the symptoms around it which make it worse. I am hoping that the rest and relaxation which happens during a sound session will be a welcome relief and help to show those in need that there are other options and ways of dealing with stress. If I can just help one person it will be all worth while.

This is in no way a commercial initiative and I am not looking to use this to get people along to my regular sessions, it is an offer with the pure intention to help others with no ties or obligations.

These sessions will be conducted in a different way to a normal sound therapy session and they are not designed for people who would like an introduction to sound therapy, it is only for those who fit the strict criteria given below.

Criteria for group members attending a session. Participants must meet all of the criteria given below. Group leaders must check the criteria with all participants in advance.

1.      Male or Female 18 years old or over.

2.     Suffering from stress, anxiety, insomnia and or mild depression.

3.     Have not attended a soundbath/sound journey/therapeutic sound session before.

4.     Live locally (Surrey/Sussex).

5.     Must be a member of the group and known to the group leader.

6.     Contraindications: soundbaths are not suitable for the following conditions: heart conditions, high blood pressure, seizures, epilepsy, 1^st trimester of pregnancy, severe mental health conditions). By attending a session the participants are stating that they do not suffer from these conditions.

CONTACT LINK:

https://www.playingintime.co.uk/contact-us

Thank you for your interest and support, it is greatly appreciated.

This initiative is in memory of Andrew Longworth.