Health care company Apollo Terapiapalvelut Ky (Apollo Therapy Services) was established in 1999 as the Apollo musiikkiterapiapalvelut (Apollo Music Therapy Services). In 2007, it continued with a new name Apollo Terapiapalvelut and widened its services to psychotherapy. The company is specialized in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, music therapy and music psychotherapy. It provides individual and group therapy as well as supervision, training and consultation.
Apollo Terapiapalvelut produce rehabilitation psychotherapy and advanced medical rehabilitation for the Kela (Social Insurance Institute of Finland). Our clients are children, adolescents, adults and their families. The founder of Apollo Terapiapalvelut Adjunct Professor, Dr Sami Alanne, DMus, MPhil is a psychoanalyst, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, music therapist, music psychotherapist, and a training psychotherapist in music psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He has a long clinical experience of over 20 years in music therapy, music psychotherapy, psychotherapy and psychiatric rehabilitation. In the field of music psychotherapy, the company has been a forerunner and has participated and supported its development, research, education and practice internationally. During the years it has collaborated with many universities, institutes and professional education programs. It has taken a part in education of social and health care professionals` basic, advanced and continuing studies. Dr Alanne was establishing and completing the first official health care music psychotherapy training in Finland. He has been awarded a Tittle of Docent in music therapy at the University of Arts Helsinki and Sibelius Academy. Dr Alanne is the author of the topical groundbreaking books Music Psychotherapy with Refugee Survivors of Torture and Musiikkipsykoterapia published in Finland. His recent book The Theory and Practice of Psychodynamic Music Psychotherapy (2023) was published in the US by the Barcelona Publishers, the prominent publisher in the field, and it is available globally. |
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