Home » Main News For September 2024, the magazine of the British Psychological Society, The Psychologist, turned their focus to Science Communication. For this edition, the article Joined in Dance by BAPAM’s Monia Brizzi (Counselling Psychologist), and Dr...
BAPAM is looking to recruit a Lay Member for our External Mental Health Scrutiny Group. What do we mean by a Lay Member? A Lay Member is someone who has personal experience of using health or care services. They may also represent a community affected by the...
Social media is so much part of our everyday lives. For artists and creators, social media can feel essential for promoting your work, building or presenting your artistic ‘identity’, staying up to date with collaborators, jobs, labels, promoters, agents,...
Home » Archives for 2022 Mental health support from BAPAM and Dance Professionals Fund Eligible dance professionals can now access up to 6 sessions of free counselling, funded by Dance Professionals Fund and provided by BAPAM’s expert performing arts-specialist...
Our guest blog is from yoga teacher and flautist Veronika Klirova who joins our Community Drop In on 1 February teaching Musicians’ Yoga to Manage Anxiety. Nearly eight years ago, I started a new job at one of the symphony orchestras in the UK. I was fresh out of...
This guest blog is written by PhD candidate, lecturer and trained actor Julia Grieshofer. Her research at University College London focuses on actors’ mental health and their resilience. Julia, after completing a BA in Performing Arts and Digital Communication...
BAPAM’s new bursary scheme, in partnership with Help Musicians and PPL, provides support, funding and supervised placements for Black, Asian and minority ethnic performers and professionals in the music industry to undertake training to become a registered...
Before becoming a counsellor, Denise Devenish grew up in a family steeped in the music industry and has been surrounded by musicians and people who work in the music industry her whole life. She has sung professionally, worked as a performer, and has a degree in arts...
Over this lockdown period, as an additional support for creative practitioners with mental health concerns, BAPAM piloted offering a short online group therapy programme. Following these sessions, we spoke with Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, a GP and BAPAM Assessing...
This Thursday, 17th September, BAPAM GP, Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, joins Mig Burgess of the Association of British Theatre Technicians for a Facebook Live panel session with the Mandy Network centred on mental health in the creative industries. Tamara and Mig will...
The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) is a highly regarded specialist charity supporting health in the performing arts through free clinical services, expert training, essential resources and clinical leadership. Our Directory lists...
In this guest blog, BAPAM counsellor and therapist, Fiona Macbeth, offers practical advice for arts workers experiencing anxiety about work during the Covid 19 pandemic. There’s a lot that people who work and create in the performing arts could be doing, and should...
During the current social distancing period, we are pleased to be working with Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Dr Sidrah Muntaha, and GP, Dr Tamara Cohen, to offer free online group therapy for mild to moderate anxiety. This 6 session programme is for performance...
Consultation Paper BAPAM is pleased to have brought together a working group of clinicians and performing arts organisations interested in addressing challenges to the mental health and wellbeing of those who work in the sector. The group has produced guidance to...
Home » Health Promotion British Association for PERFORMING Arts Medicine Healthy Touring Checklist and Rider Introduction This guidance provides practical advice for artists and performers on keeping healthy while touring or working away from home. It is a...
BAPAM has convened a Psychosocial Working Group to bring together clinicians including doctors, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, charities working with performing arts professionals to support mental health, and academics conducting key...
As part of our commitment to reach and support performers throughout the UK, we are pleased and excited to announce new regional clinics, this time in Liverpool and Belfast starting in May 2019. BAPAM are delighted to be working with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic...
BAPAM is pleased to support the Peer Supervision Group for psychosocial practitioners who work with performing arts clients. This group, whose inaugural meetings took place in 2018, opens up the conversation between performing arts and psychological practice. It is...
Tuesday 5th February to Tuesday 26th February We have teamed up with the Incorporated Society of Musicians to present a series of free webinars looking at musicians’ health. Our performance health experts will lead the sessions, exploring solutions to problems...
At BAPAM we work with mental health specialists who have the knowledge and experience to help performing arts clients. On 17th November, Clinical Psychologist Dr Anna Colton will be speaking at our training day about the Performance Environment, covering anxiety, how...
The pressures of performing in today’s social media culture means more and more therapists are working backstage to support performers in need according to an article in the Sunday Telegraph. BAPAM registered psychotherapist Helen Brice who is featured in the article,...
