Elizabeth Nightingale - Founder, Nightingale NMT
Elizabeth is an experienced Neurologic Music Therapist, with over a decade of specialist clinical experience in acute, inpatient and community neurorehabilitation.
She has worked extensively across paediatric and adult settings, with expertise in acquired brain injury, cerebral palsy, disorders of consciousness, and aphasia. Elizabeth is a registered Neurologic Music Therapy® Fellow (NMT-F™) of the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy® and is also trained in the Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC).
She is also an accredited Expert Witness. Additonal to her clinical work, Elizabeth holds voluntary roles on the NMT™ Academy’s Advisory Council, and the committee for Acquired Brain Injury London.
In 2025, Elizabeth was shortlisted for a Neuro Rehab Times award for the category ‘Inspirational Contribution’.
Elizabeth has been delivering NMT™ services for medicolegal cases for over ten years, making her one of the most experienced UK NMT™ practitioners in this sector. She has also set up and delivered multiple NMT™ pilots across level 1-3a rehab units in the NHS. In recent years she has been the first UK NMT™ therapist to be included within an ICAP (Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programme), the gold standard treatment for aphasia therapy. She has been working as a clinical NMT™ supervisor since 2016 and provides this support to a range of organisations, including for the music therapy team at the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury, The Children’s Trust.
Elizabeth is a regular conference presenter and guest lecturer and has had her work and research published in the Brain & Spinal Injury Handbook, NR Times, British Journal of Music Therapy and Journal of Dementia Care. She has recently co-authored a chapter with Corene Thaut on the NMT™ technique Developmental Speech & Language Training Through Music (DSLM)® for the updated edition of the Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy (Thaut & Hömberg, 2025).