What is Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)?
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, created by music therapist Helen Bonny, is a therapy process in which the client images freely to recorded, classical music while dialoguing with a trained guide. The imagery can include any kind of imagination experience, such as sensations, feelings, memories, and fantasies. Throughout the process, the guide supports and encourages the client’s development through careful selections of music, skillful intervention, and a caring presence. Through the Bonny Method, clients access and work through various barriers to greater inner wholeness. Typical goals include improved mood, deepened personal insight, healed emotional wounds, increased self-esteem, greater clarity in one’s sense of life meaning and/or purpose, and spiritual development. Persons who most typically benefit from this method include those with depression, anxiety (including post-traumatic stress and childhood trauma), medical conditions (such as cancer, in various stages), ch
