Nightingale NMT™: meet the voices
Elizabeth Nightingale, Founder
ELIZABETH NIGHTINGALE
Founder | Expert Witness | NMT™ Fellow
Elizabeth Nightingale is a registered Neurologic Music Therapy® Fellow (NMT-F™) and qualified MATADOC assessor. Alongside her private clinical practice she has a part-time role as Operations and Neuro Services Lead for Chiltern Music Therapy. She currently also holds a number of additional voluntary roles. These include being the UK representative on the Advisory Council for the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy®, sitting on the Clinical Advisory Board for NeuroProactive, being a committee member for Acquired Brain Injury London (ABIL) forum, and serving as the Learning Disability Network Coordinator for the British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT).
Elizabeth has been delivering NMT™ services for medicolegal cases for over ten years, making her one of the most experienced UK NMT™ practitioners in this sector. She has also set up and delivered multiple NMT™ pilots across level 1-3a rehab units in the NHS. In recent years she has been the first UK NMT™ therapist to be included within an ICAP (Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programme), the gold standard treatment for aphasia therapy. She has been working as a clinical NMT™ supervisor since 2016 and provides this support to a range of organisations, including for the music therapy team at the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury, The Children’s Trust.
Elizabeth is a regular conference presenter and guest lecturer and has had her work and research published in the Brain & Spinal Injury Handbook, NR Times, British Journal of Music Therapy and Journal of Dementia Care. She has recently co-authored a chapter with Corene Thaut on the NMT™ technique Developmental Speech & Language Training Through Music (DSLM)® for the updated edition of the Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy (Thaut & Hömberg, 2025).
“We have been able to practice true inter disciplinary working in tying our evidenced based approaches together for improving speech, language and cognition with the joint goals of helping people interact more successfully and participate more in everyday communication. Our ICAPs will grow more and more and we look forward to continuing to work alongside Elizabeth to utilise her skills and knowledge in helping us help others with communication difficulties after brain injury”
— Gayle Chandler, Head of Operations at Linguistic Resolutions, 2025
NATASHA LARKIN
Senior Associate | NMT™ Therapist
Natasha is a registered NMT™ Therapist affiliate, with additional training in MATADOC and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Music Therapy (NICU-MT).
Natasha brings a wealth of experience from a range of healthcare and community settings, having developed and delivered music therapy services across schools, care homes, and NHS hospitals. Her clinical passion lies in supporting children, young people, and families, particularly in acute and high-dependency hospital environments. She was instrumental in establishing the first music therapy service at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, working across their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), and paediatric wards.
Alongside her clinical work, Natasha also has experience in team leadership, training, and safeguarding, and continues to contribute to the development of best practice in the field. She is deeply committed to the therapeutic use of music as a way of enhancing connection, communication, and emotional expression for children and families navigating complex health journeys.