In the Groove Music Therapy

25/11/2024

NDIS have now dropped Music Therapy as a 'funded therapeutic support', all with less than a week's notice. 1000s of NDIS participants across the country will no longer have the choice and control to include music therapy (a fully accredited allied health service) in their plans. Sometimes it's the only therapy that really 'works' for them. Please sign & share!

Save Music Therapy: Keep It Funded Under NDIS

15/08/2024

Singing the rainbow - I may need more orange instruments!

14/06/2022

If you want to see what music therapy can look like, check out Eddie Perfect running a songwriting session on ABC's awesome 'Space 22' series. I don't quite have Eddie's piano chops or the haircut (!), but this is what we do!

Popular performer Eddie Perfect shares his songwriting and singing skills with the participants to help them express their thoughts and release trapped emotions. The results are amazing.

15/12/2021

My clients give me the best Christmas cards!

18/06/2021

Always fun setting up the room for my busy days at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Working with clients 3 to 73 years - everything from frogs and boomwhackers to the mobile recording studio!

08/04/2021

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Every Australian Counts is here to make sure the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is delivered as promised and is the best it can be. Find out how the NDIS process works and hear real stories from people who have been through the process, and keep up to date with the NDIS rollout with lat...

01/03/2021

Happy World Music Therapy Day!

Today is World Music Therapy Day!
Across our social media channels AMTA will be celebrating the wonderful work Registered Music Therapists do around Australia and the world!

31/01/2021

19/12/2020

"What a wonderful world…except for criminals and crocodiles and coronavirus!" sang one wise 6 yr old this year, improvising on the Louis Armstrong classic.
Thanks to all my amazing musicians for keeping music live in 2020! - thanks for your passion and persistence through all the glitches and interruptions, thanks for the beautiful moments and teaching me so much.
Most of my young musicians have put up with me riffing off "We Got the Beat" as a go-to rhythm/song/thing - let's take out the year with the Go-Gos doing their own iso-video version.
See you in 2021 with hopefully no coronavirus or criminals (but let's keep the crocodiles)!

The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” performed live on TODAY on September 15, 2020From the album ‘Beauty & the Beat’: https://TheGogos.lnk.to/beautyandtheb... Follo...

02/12/2020

Welcome to a neuro-divergent world! Let's take a moment to celebrate and share the awesome talents, accomplishments and contributions of at least 4.4 million Australians. Let's push for more accessibility and inclusion all round! https://fb.watch/27OxFbhVPL/

20/10/2020

Meanwhile back in the lab.....No prizes for guessing the song!
This has been a real hit (!) with some of my younger clients - great for sequencing and visual feedback - midi drum pads triggering videos as well as sound!