Category: News

  • How to perform at your own Olympics

    How to perform at your own Olympics

    MITC Psychologist Stu Holliday is unique in our group as he comes from a Sport and Performance training and background. As well as his time working in the music industry in his 20s, he was also to be found at the track in Mile End, London (where the US Olympic athletics team were based in…

  • READ Stu Holliday’s top tips for adopting a sporting mindset in business

    READ Stu Holliday’s top tips for adopting a sporting mindset in business

    Psychologist Stu was interviewed by The Standard about the magic that can happen when small business owners have the single-minded resolve of an athlete. When you are allied to strategic thinking, great results can be achieved, he explains. You can read the whole article here.

  • Ask the Therapist Q&A

    Ask the Therapist Q&A

    Yesterday was the first instalment of MITC’s ‘Ask the Therapist’ Q&A series. The event was open to aspiring psychologists and psychotherapists, those in training and those who are in the first 3 years post-qualification (’emerging professionals’).

  • MITC is attending the Tirana Music Conference

    MITC is attending the Tirana Music Conference

    MITC’s French counselling psychologist Marie A. Beau will attend the inaugural Tirana Music Conference in Albania, on 30th May 2024. 

  • WATCH Toi Washington-Simon and Jodi Milstein on She Rocks’ Mental Health Spotlight

    WATCH Toi Washington-Simon and Jodi Milstein on She Rocks’ Mental Health Spotlight

    The wonderful Women’s International Music Network (The WIMN) put a spotlight on Mental Health month with a panel of fabulous professionals, including MITC’s Toi and Jodi.

  • New article in BACP’s Therapy Today

    New article in BACP’s Therapy Today

    MITC founder Tamsin Embleton has contributed an article on musicians’ mental health to this month’s issue of Therapy Today, the magazine published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. The four-page feature offers guidance to psychotherapists and counsellors working with touring artists and crew struggling with mental health, substance misuse and interpersonal problems on…

  • Tamsin given the ‘Industry Recognition’ award by TPi Magazine

    Tamsin given the ‘Industry Recognition’ award by TPi Magazine

    In February, MITC’s founder Tamsin Embleton had the incredible honour of being given the ‘Industry Recognition’ award by TPi Magazine sponsored by Medialease. It’s so encouraging to have our work at Music Industry Therapist Collective, and the Touring and Mental Health: the Music Industry Manual acknowledged by our live music industry peers. We see this award as representative of…

  • HUMO feature Tamsin Embleton and the Touring Manual

    HUMO feature Tamsin Embleton and the Touring Manual

    In December 2023, Belgian Magazine featured Tamsin Embleton and her book Touring and Mental Health: the Music Industry Manual. Read Jurgen Beckers’ article here (in Dutch).

  • Clash Magazine’s article on the music industry’s growing mental health crisis

    Clash Magazine’s article on the music industry’s growing mental health crisis

    On World Mental Health Day, Clash Magazine spoke with MITC’s Tamsin Embleton to explore music’s mental health crisis and what is being done to help… Psychotherapist and ex-booking agent, Tamsin Embleton, established the Music Industry Therapy Collective (MITC), and studies the psychological impact of touring. She released an expansive new book, Touring And Mental Health: The…

  • NME speaks with Tamsin Embleton and Justin Lockey about the impact of Touring

    NME speaks with Tamsin Embleton and Justin Lockey about the impact of Touring

    For a feature marking World Mental Health Day, MITC’s Tamsin Embleton spoke alongside Editors’ Justin Lockey to NME for an in-depth article on mental health in the music industry. To read the article, click here.