Phoene Cave

Phoene Cave (BMus Hons, PGDip MT, MA) is an HCPC registered music therapist, a CNHC registered shiatsu practitioner, singer, vocal coach and clinical supervisor.

Phoene is an HCPC registered Music Therapist who worked in the television and record industries before becoming a professional jazz and pop singer.

As Director of The Musical Breath she has been training others to work with the breathless since the British Lung Foundation approached her in 2014. They (now Asthma and Lung UK) have funded a third of those she has trained.  The Musical Breath now has a diverse team offering expertise across body, breath and voice.

She has co-authored multiple research papers with her respiratory physiotherapy colleague Dr Adam Lewis including in Perspectives in Public Health, the British Medical Journal plus Routledge companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing: Wellbeing

She works across performance, education, community music, creative health and research in settings such as care homes, hospitals, prisons, detention centres, schools, nurseries. She was Head of Voice for Richmond Music Trust, Head of Music Services  London at Nordoff & Robbins and Arts Therapies Placements Development Lead at East London NHS Foundation Trust  as well as a Music Therapist at HMP & YOI Bronzefield working with women with severe and enduring mental health conditions as well as in the mother and baby unit.

She continues to provide Creative Health training for care home and hospice staff, nursing and healthcare students providing creative toolkits across drama, dance, music and art for their own self-care and to highlight novel ways to engage with patients within a holistic framework. She also is a specialist learning mentor with students with  neurodiversity and mental health challenges at Brighton University.

Phoene is a qualified shiatsu practitioner and enjoys yoga as well improvised and contemporary dance as a vital part of her own practice. She enjoys holding Reflective Practice space for practitioners working in challenging circumstances and delighted in receiving her first Arts Council project grant in 2024 for curating compassionate creative disruption in an art gallery with the Transit Collective