STELLA MUSIC THERAPY SERVICE ★ ENGLISH PAGE
◇About SMTS
What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is "the professional use of music and its elements as an intervention in medical, educational, and everyday environments with individuals, groups, families, or communities who seek to optimize their quality of life and improve their physical, social, communicative, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health and wellbeing." (World Federation of Music Therapy)
What is SMTS?
Stella Music Therapy Service (SMTS) provides good music therapy for people with mental difficulties such as low mood, stressful life, and communication difficulties. The SMTS therapist will help your mental health and children's development through music.
Using various instruments but easy to play (small percussions and piano etc) in the sessions. You do not need any musical knowledge or playing skills. Improvisation, singing, and song writing are mainly used in SMTS music therapy. All sessions are based on psychoanalysis, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience theories.
If you have any questions, please send a mail from the "contact" page, or come "trial session".
◇Therapist
TOMOKO (Japanese)
・Music Therapist （HCPC registered. Qualified in the UK)
・Speech Language Therapist (Qualified in Japan)
・Pianist
She studied musical skills and techniques at Doshisha Woman's College of Liberal Arts. Then, she trained to be a Speech Language Therapist. She has a lot of clinical experience with children who need special support in both medical and social-welfare areas.
As a music therapist, she trained at Anglia Ruskin University MA Music Therapy, UK. Various cases were experienced during the master's study. Mainly, using improvisation or songwriting is used. Psychoanalytic perspectives are applied, but neuroscience and other theories are also absorbed in the sessions.
She takes supervision constantly from a professional music therapist who works and teaches in the UK.
◇Session Menu
For Children (0-18)
★Individual session (30-40min)
￥5000
*20min(or 30min) therapy and 10min feedback
*The session time will be discussed in the first session.
*The first session will be mainly taken time to discuss your goal and talk about what music therapy is.
★Child development counseling (50min)
￥6000
*Not music therapy session.
*Use this service only once a month in person.
★Enjoy the music ! (30min)
￥5000/month
*This is not music therapy. Just enjoy "music" with the SMTS therapist.
*This service will be taken twice a month.
For Adults (over 18)
★Individual session (40-50min)
￥7000
*The session time will be discussed at the first session.
*Irregular date session...￥6000
★Drop In session (40min)Not available now
￥3000
*See the top page "notice" or SMTS's Twitter and ask via mail .
*Twice a month only for each person.
FOR ALL PEOPLE
★Trial session (40min)
￥3000
*For the first time only.
Contact SMTS therapist and discuss your first session or ask any questions. (see "Contact" page)
◆Payment
*Cash only.
*Please pay for each session in advance.
◆Cancellation Policy
*Please contact SMTS by e-mail or phone(leave a message please) until 8 pm at least the day before your scheduled session, if you are unable to keep your scheduled appointment.
*Sam－ cancellations will be charged 100% of the service price.
* If you do not call to cancel your appointment or do not show up for your scheduled appointment, you will be charged full price for the scheduled service.