Family and intimate relationships are a challenge at the best of times! When you as a parent or partner are going through your own trauma this may affect your ability to feel safe and get close.
Tuning Relationships with Music® (TRM) is an evidence-based therapy developed by Vivienne. If you are struggling to manage your relationships as the result of previous trauma, TRM may help. Music can help restore a sense of safety and connection in our bodies and emotions, not just our thoughts. You don’t have to know anything about music to benefit!
TRM is available for parents and young people, for adult family members, and for partners. Contact us if you would like to know more.
Peer-reviewed publications:
Colegrove, V., Havighurst, S. & Kehoe, C. (2019). Tuning Relationships with Music®: An intervention for parents with an interpersonal trauma history and their adolescents. Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia: Special edition on working with trauma 7(2). http://pacja.org.au/?p=5456
Colegrove, V. M., Havighurst, S. S. & Kehoe, C. E. (2019). Emotion regulation during conflict interaction after a systemic music intervention: understanding changes for parents with a trauma history and their adolescent. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.. https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2019.1616807
Colegrove, V. M., Havighurst, S. S., Kehoe, C. E., & Jacobsen, S. (2018). Pilot randomized controlled trial of Tuning Relationships with Music™: Intervention for parents with a trauma history and their adolescent. Child Abuse and Neglect, 79C, 259-268. https//doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.02.017
Colegrove, V. and Havighurst, S. (2017). Review of nonverbal communication in parent-child interaction: assessment and intervention. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 26(2), 574-590. doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0563-x
See www.tuningrelationshipswithmusic.com for more detailed information.