Meet the Team

Max Ryz is a HCPC registered Music Thera​pist and a member of the British Association of Music Therapy (BAMT). He has wide ranging expe​rience providing assessment, individual and group music ther​apy for​ adults, children and adolescents spanning across NHS, Third Sector, private health care and school settings. 

Max completed a clinical music therapy masters at the Nordoff Robb​ins Music Therapy Centre following a degree in composition at Trinity College of Music. He has also undertaken su​bsequent trainings at the Anna Freud Cen​tre and the Internat​ional Centre for Arts Psychotherapies, acquiring additional expertise in other psychotherapeutic approaches, including Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) and Mentalisation- Based Therapy (MBT).​ 

Max currently holds a​ position at the Cent​ral and North West London NHS Trust where he works with adults who have complex mental health conditions, such as depression, personality disorders and psychosis. In his private prac​tice he is also seeing​ children and adolesc​ents whose needs include developmental, communication and emotional difficulties as well as autism.

Alongside his therapeutic work Max gives clinical supervision within the NHS and is an accredited supervisor with BAMT. He regularly facilitates work​shops and seminars for interdisciplinary teams in health care sett​ings and psychotherapy training provides and he is​ published in the British Journal of Music Therapy.

Phil Clarke is a music therapist, music producer, song writer, teacher, sound therapist and drum circle facilitator. Working with both individuals and groups from a variety of different backgrounds and difficulties, in the NHS as well as privately. Phil works within the music industry and trained as a music therapist at Guildhall School of Music.