Art only becomes interesting when we stand before something we cannot immediately explain completely.

Christoph Schlingensief

About me

Katja Gieselmann-Klose at an art exhibition

Arts-based systemic supervisor

Music therapist

Heilpraktikerin (non-medical practitioner) for psychotherapy

From personal experience, I know how important and identity-shaping satisfaction at work can be. Conversely, ongoing conflict, feeling overburdened or under-challenged, or dissatisfaction at work can deeply affect our wellbeing and spill over into other areas of life. That is why I am committed to helping people rediscover room for manoeuvre and new perspectives, even in difficult professional situations.

I am curious about what happens when we look at familiar things from another perspective. What becomes visible when we do more than talk—when we try something out, create, listen or move? In my work, I bring together my experience as a music therapist with my systemic and arts-based approach.

During my many years in Italy, I first studied music therapy in Assisi. For a long time, my work as a music therapist focused on adults on the autism spectrum. I also worked for several years with prisoners with mental illness at San Vittore prison in Milan.

Since returning to Germany, I have devoted much of my work to music therapy with people living with dementia and people in the final phase of life, including in palliative care.

Alongside music therapy, I have gained experience in many other fields: teaching German as a foreign language at large companies, working as a translator, developing my own approach to early musical education, and delivering training for teachers and social workers. I also coordinated group holidays for people with disabilities and founded and directed a children’s choir. Since 2023, as a Danceability® practitioner, I have led a dance group for people with disabilities. From 2024 to 2026, I completed further training in arts-based systemic supervision at the Academy of Cultural Education in Remscheid.

Although music is probably the art form closest to me, I am equally passionate about visual art, theatre, film and, of course, literature—which can also be a form of music.