Emi talks with Davina about their recent debut at the BAMT Conference in May 2024 where they spoke about their experiences of being a deaf music therapist.

Here are Emi's words of introduction:

My name's Emi and my pronouns are they/them. I'm a deaf music therapist who currently works in older people's mental health in the NHS. I graduated from the University of Derby in 2022 with my master's in music therapy, where I became passionate about making music therapy more accessible to deaf people. Ever since, I've been working on publishing my independent scholarship on how my experience of music impacts my work, and I hope to use my career and research to platform the different ways disabled folks access music and music therapy.