ABOUT

THIS INNER VOICE MUSIC THERAPY LTD

This Inner Voice provides compassionate, creative and clinically-rigorous music therapy for children, young people and adults living with challenges arising from neurologic injury, disease, disorder or divergence.

Our work is goal-led and carefully tailored, combining evidence-informed practice with high standards of musicianship and deep respect for the client’s experience. We offer both Neurologic Music Therapy® (NMT™) and psychodynamic music therapy models, and we have a particular specialism in speech and communication rehabilitation through singing-based interventions, often in close collaboration with Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) and the wider multidisciplinary team.

We work in clients’ homes, education and community settings, and online. We also support the wider system around the client, including families, carers and professional teams.

What you can expect

A clear referral conversation and suitability check
A structured assessment block (often over four weeks), followed by a written summary and treatment plan
Agreed review points and outcome monitoring aligned with the wider rehabilitation plan
Professional standards: HCPC registration, safeguarding, supervision, CPD and robust record keeping
Joint working with other professionals where appropriate (particularly SLT, OT, psychology and education teams)

FOUNDER & CLINICAL DIRECTOR

Serenna Wagner

Serenna Wagner is a Health and Care Professions Council-registered Advanced Neurologic Music Therapist, Bond Solon-trained Expert Witness, a professional classical singer, PhD researcher and a guest academic lecturer. She is currently working towards a Doctorate at the Cambridge Institute of Music Therapy Research. A member of CMSUK, Serenna is known for her “ deeply compassionate, yet clinically rigorous approach” (LR - Case Manager & Clinical Director).

Serenna is interested in creative, innovative and evidence-based ways to help TIV clients to approach the challenges they face. She is passionate about harnessing the power of music to support real, measurable neurological change. Serenna has developed a powerful set of interventions channeling evidence-based methods to help clients with physical, social, emotional and psychological difficulties.

“Serenna Wagner is an exceptionally talented music therapist with a vast range of experience to draw upon from a varied and rich career. Her work as a professional singer and singing teacher has enriched her music therapy practice and provides the foundations for her unique and innovative creative interventions. I have been fortunate enough to witness the remarkable growth and change that comes about as a result of her interventions and her warm, empathetic and caring nature that supports her work. Serenna is passionate about her work and I would highly recommend all her services.”

Victoria Kammin, Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret's University, Edinburgh

Serenna is absolutely passionate about driving results for clients - and loves thinking outside the box to make progress possible, and bringing different strands of training, research and experience together in a way that is carefully tailored for clients and their families. She is committed to providing sessions that are not only clinically potent, but full of artistry, enrichment and intellectual stimulation.

Serenna leads a team of excellent music therapists whom she personally trains and supervises, ensuring consistent, high-quality care across all client programmes. Her clinical expertise extends to speech and language rehabilitation, Parkinson’s and dementia care, and community-based music groups that promote recovery, connection, and confidence.

At the heart of The Inner Voice Music Therapy Ltd is a belief that music can unlock potential where words fall short, helping clients and families experience meaningful progress and moments of freedom and joy throughout the rehabilitation process.

Listen to Serenna’s interview with Christie… here

TRAINING, RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Serenna is originally from Leeds, where she discovered a love of music and singing at an early age, studying several instruments, playing in orchestras, competing in local festivals and singing in choirs. She is from a family that is scientific and practical and this has perhaps influenced her desire to combine the beauty of music with methods that are demonstrably effective in clinical work.

Her undergraduate degree was a Combined Honours in English and Music at the University of Birmingham. She later trained in classical singing at the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with distinction in her first Masters Degree, and spent many years teaching and performing professionally. She was accepted onto the English National Opera Young Artists’ Programme in 2009, and it was there whilst working as a chorus member that a chance conversation led her to discover music therapy.

Serenna trained as a music therapist at Roehampton University, graduating with Distinction from the MA Music Therapy, and went on to build a diverse caseload across schools, care settings, rehabilitation centres and clients’ homes. She undertook additional training at the Global Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy®, qualified as a MATADOC assessor (a standardised music-based assessment validated for use with adults with disorders of consciousness), and is now a Fellow of the Global Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy® .

Alongside clinical practice, Serenna is undertaking a PhD at the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, exploring the integration of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation and communication recovery. She regularly lectures on her work and has been invited to present at the World Congress of Music Therapy later this year.

Serenna has worked closely within multidisciplinary teams alongside Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists and other allied health professionals. She also holds Bond Solon expert witness training from Cardiff University, supporting high standards in medico-legal work and professional reporting. Serenna directly oversees the work of all her associates.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

A note for clients and families

There is no need to be musical to benefit from music therapy. Music is the medium for change and, in the hands of an experienced therapist, is a powerful way of reaching functional and psychological outcomes that matter in everyday life.