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).