Danielle Martin

I work as a sound healer, and alongside this I am currently studying a Master’s in Music Therapy. Holding these two worlds together has deepened how I think about sound, not only as an experiential or spiritual practice, but as something that actively shapes emotional regulation, nervous system states, and psychological change. Studying psychotherapy and clinical frameworks has drawn my attention to an important question that underpins all therapeutic work: how does change actually happen?...

Before I ever sat in a room talking about attachment theory, I worked in residential children’s homes. Real ones. With alarms, incident reports, night shifts, and young people whose nervous systems were permanently set to high alert. That experience has shaped how I read theory now, with curiosity, appreciation… and a healthy dose of scepticism. Alongside this, I’ve spent years working with sound healing, where regulation, resonance and non-verbal attunement are central. So when I started...

Over the last year, alongside running my sound healing work, I’ve also been deepening my learning through a Master’s in Music Therapy. This has mostly involved reading a lot, questioning everything, and realising that nothing is ever as neat and tidy as you hope it will be. Along the way, I’ve been exploring how music therapy models intersect with sound-based practice and where things blur in interesting (and occasionally uncomfortable) ways. What’s surprised me most isn’t how different the...