Monia Brizzi is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Associate Fellow and Existential Chartered Psychologist with Senior Practitioner Status in the BPS Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy (ROPSIP), a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Counselling Psychologist, and British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Registered Psychotherapist. She has over 25 years of clinical experience practicing in the NHS, charity and private sectors with an extensive range of issues, disturbances and areas of concern. She is also a consultant psychologist on British Council, Arts Council, Wellcome Trust and Royal Society funded interdisciplinary arts and health research projects and has presented her research at national and international conferences. Monia is currently an Assessing Clinician and member of the Medical Committee of the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) in London where she provides specialist psychological assessment, treatment and performance consultancy to professional and student performers. She has worked with the Royal Society of Musicians, Help Musicians, Equity Charitable Trust, Royal Variety Performance, Dance Professionals Fund, and Healthy Conservatories Network. Monia is a Specialist Advisor in the Music and Mental Health Group Committee of the Royal Musical Association, a member of the peer review panel of the Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) and former Committee Member of SEA. She has a special interest in performance psychology and phenomenological psychology and has collaborated with Prof Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Prof Mine Doğantan-Dack, Prof John Crawford, Dr Anthony Ordman and Mandy Burvill to integrate these in the evidence base and practice of the performing arts. Since 2008 her work has been directly supervised by Prof Ernesto Spinelli.

Monia Brizzi has been invited to consult on the 2026 Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship project Responsive Disorder in Functional Materials. A new collaboration between Andrew Goodwin (Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford) and Simeon Nelson (Emeritus Professor of Sculpture, University of Hertfordshire) has been awarded an inaugural Faraday Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society, London that will fund their work together for the next five years. Having worked together previously on the Wellcome Trust supported Cosmoscope, this interdisciplinary collaboration is part of a project titled Responsive Disorder in Functional Materials. Commencing in January 2026 it aims to develop new visual languages for disordered and aperiodic states. Monia Brizzi will help mapping the human dimensions of disordered phenomena at intra and interpersonal levels as complex systems.

Recent publications:

Doğantan-Dack, M., Brizzi, M., and Crawford, J. (2026). 'Movement, Affect, and Agency in Music Performance: Pedagogical and Clinical Perspectives', in the International Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing (IJMHW). Available at: http://www.musichealthandwellbeing.co.uk ISSN2515-981X. Article link: https://tinyurl.com/345k3zwf

Doğantan-Dack, M., Crawford, J., Kawabata, M., and Brizzi, M. (2026) ‘Sounding like Myself: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Freedom in Western Classical Music Performance’, in Music Performers Lived Experiences: Personal Perspectives, Volume 2 (pp. 149-167). Routledge, London.
https://www.routledge.com/Music-Performers-Lived-Experiences-Personal-Perspectives-Volume-Two/Dogantan-Dack/p/book/9781032403748

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