Featuring: Henry Dunn – Henry Dunn qualified as a Music Psychotherapist in 2002, and has worked for the National Health Service in the South West of England for 18 years. In this role he works with adults with or without learning disabilities who have severe mental ill health, primarily due to trauma. A large proportion of his clients are also on the autistic spectrum. Alongside this, he has worked in special education, residential and day-care, respite care, and with
children that have life-limiting conditions. In all these settings, a large proportion of the children he worked with are on the autistic spectrum.
Before training as a Music Psychotherapist, Henry worked in various care settings, with adults and children with learning disabilities, and often autism. It was in these settings that he found he had an affinity with people on the autistic spectrum,
and a desire to work with people whose forms of communication were challenging to some people.
In 2007, Henry set up the Autistic Spectrum Conditions Network for the British Association for Music Therapy, and in 2019 he was Chief Editor of Music Therapy and Autism Across the Lifespan: A Spectrum of Approaches (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019). This showcased the variety of ways Music Therapy helps people on the autistic spectrum. It can be purchased via the Jessica Kingsley website (www.jkp.com) in paperback or e-book format.
Henry has presented at a variety of international conferences and delivers workshops and lectures. He lives in Exeter, UK, with his wife and three children.
