Chroma partners with ISOFI to support brain injury survivors’ mental health

Chroma, the UKs leading provider of arts therapies, will be implementing ISOFI into their music therapy sessions with brain injury survivors to help support their mental health.

ISOFI is a telehealth service and platform that syncs with a person’s own music streaming platform playlists, enabling the development of personalised, music playlist-based coping strategies for anxiety and other stresses. 

Personalised music is a motivational, mood enhancing tool, that helps survivors navigate and express their emotions, often without words.

By improving track selection through ISOFI, based on their own music tastes, this process will help survivors reach their desired improved mood state.

Chroma’s music therapists will use the app to support clients in rehab, post-brain injury, to develop evidence-based strategies for common mental health scenarios using their favourite music to set personal goals.

Clients will be able to use their existing music playlists and favourite artists to ease anxiety and other mental health concerns. 

Chroma therapists are also adopting this platform to support clients in rehab and residential settings, as this accessible approach to music therapy is an ideal way to reach people in a non-clinical, personable style.

The software empowers music therapists to use music technology more accurately and efficiently within therapy practice.

Music therapists use music on a daily basis to improve mood as it is an effective approach to improving mental wellbeing. Brain injury survivors, understandably, struggle to come to terms with the reality of their new lives - the changes in their physical, cognitive and mental capabilities, and so depression is commonplace. Poor mental health affects mood, quality of life for them and their loved ones/carers, and rehab participation. 

Benefits of this software are therefore three-fold.  Not only will it be used during initial music therapy sessions to help support mental state, but these playlists are accessible anytime, anywhere 24/7, not just during music therapy sessions, so Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists can access these playlists during rehab to act as a mood improver, supporting client’s participation in rehabilitation. Seeing positive results in rehab will ultimately also help to improve their mental state. 

And these playlists can also be accessed by carer’s and loved ones, so can be played throughout the day when their mood needs to be lifted - improving not only the quality of their own daily life, but that of their loved ones and their carer’s, as well.

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