Brooke Crozier is a youth worker, mental health nurse, and music lover based in Northern Ireland. She’s the founder of The Sound Mind Collective, a creative mental health project exploring how music can be used as a tool for wellbeing - through workshops, zines, community building and more. We chatted about music and mood, burnout, the science behind sound and the vulnerability of sharing creative work.
Alice (Tenderloin Music): Would you like to start by introducing yourself?
Brooke: My name’s Brooke, I run The Sound Mind Collective. Right now it’s just me, but I have a really big team of friends and family around me, artists, people in the industry, who’ve all been amazing, helping me edit things or just being a sounding board. I’m a professional youth worker, and I did my master’s in mental health nursing because I wanted to focus more on that side of things - especially early intervention. I’m a big believer in reaching people when they’re young and giving them tools to understand their mental health early on.
I loved youth work. I worked in the only drop-in youth centre of its kind in Northern Ireland. It’s open all day and you can just show up. It was a really unique space. But I wanted to work more in the mental health stream, especially with young people.