Sound Effect Music Therapy, Geelong & Surrounds, VIC

19/11/2025

Contact us for Neurologic Music Therapy™ appointments in Geelong.

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Moving to musical rhythm significantly improves gait and other motor functions compared to self-paced movement in neurorehabilitation.

Using brain network science, a recent collaborative study between researchers at the University of Toronto Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) and Wake Forest University sheds new light on why this occurs:

✨ Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS)® optimizes how neurons talk to each other and harnesses them into a more closely connected and well synchronized brain network in the Basal Ganglia, a critical region for rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease. Stable, tightly coupled, and efficient neural connections are necessary engines to improve timing, consistency, and spatial control of movement. This evidence of strong plasticity in connectivity in neural networks is key in understanding why music/rhythm based Neurologic Music Therapy® interventions are powerful neuromodulatory tools.

You can read the full paper here:
Lavigne S, Burdette J, Bahrami M, Laurien P, Lyday R, Thaut MH. 2025. Altered
basal ganglia networks topology associated with auditory-motor
synchronization. Brain & Behavior, doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70695
Available at: nmtacademy.co/research-publications/

Additional studies:
Pranjic M, Braun Janzen T, Vuksic N, Thaut MH. 2024. From sound to
movement: Mapping neural mechanisms of auditory-motor entrainment
and synchronization. Brain Sciences, doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14111063
Koshimori Y, Thaut MH. 2023. Rhythmic auditory stimulation as potential
neuromodulator for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson and Related Disorders,
doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105459

10/11/2025

Did you know? You can now access Music Therapy online — fully funded by the NDIS, anywhere in Australia 🇦🇺

Whether you’re looking to improve communication, emotional wellbeing, motor skills, or self-expression, our registered music therapists are here to support you from the comfort of your home 💻🎵

✨ Why choose Music Therapy via Telehealth?
✅ NDIS-funded (no out-of-pocket cost for eligible participants)
✅ Accessible from any location with internet
✅ Personalised sessions to meet your goals
✅ Creative, empowering, and fun!

🧡 Let the power of music help you grow, connect, and thrive.

📞 DM us today or visit www.soundeffectmusictherapy.com.au/telehealth/ to learn more and book your first online session!

04/11/2025

Music is not just art. It’s cognitive training disguised as joy. In music therapy we carefully consider the brain’s responses to musical stimuli, and use this to our advantage to commit tasks and knowledge to memory, establish beneficial habits and patterns, and recruit and stimulate specific brain regions to action. That’s why music therapy is so effective across a broad range of therapeutic goals - music is the only thing that can recruit so many parts of the brain simultaneously.

Neurologic Music Therapy® is available in Geelong/Torquay for adults managing or recovering from brain injury or illnesses such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, stroke, aphasia, dementia, and many more. We use music to target goals across speech, motor, and cognition/memory. Spaces available to commence mid-December or in 2026! Book now.

03/11/2025

Hello GEELONG! 🎶🧠
Referrals are now OPEN for adult neurorehabilitation sessions with neurologic music therapy™ (NMT®). We use custom-created musical tasks and engagement to work on goals in speech and communication, cognition and memory, balance, gait and coordination. This therapy is funded by the NDIS and suitable for clients managing recovery and maintenance after brain injury, stroke, or neurological diseases/disorders.

Sarah Grey is a registered music therapist and an affiliate of the Neurologic Music Therapy™ academy. She is offering a mobile music therapy service from mid December 2025 in Geelong and Torquay, VIC.

26/10/2025

🎶✨ Big changes ahead for Sound Effect Music Therapy! ✨🎶

After many wonderful years in Canberra, we’re closing our Fyshwick office and hitting the road 🚐🎵 — moving to Geelong/Torquay, Victoria to become a mobile music therapy service!

While NDIS fee cuts have made clinic spaces harder to sustain, this shift opens up an exciting new chapter — bringing music directly to clients and focusing on adult neurorehabilitation. 💪🧠🎶

If you know someone recovering from stroke, brain injury, or managing neurological conditions such as Parkinsons or dementia in Geelong and surrounds, please let them know we have appointments ready to start in December, 2025. We work on functional goals such as recovering speech, improving memory and cognition, and regulating gait and movement (and a lot more!)

A heartfelt thank-you to our amazing Canberra clients and colleagues for your support and music over the years. 💛

Stay tuned as we unpack, tune up, and start this new melody down south. 🎵

21/10/2025

Have you seen our YouTube channel? We are gradually sharing a range of ADL songs (Activities of Daily Life) that clients have found helpful in the past. This is the Hair Tying Song. It intentionally focuses on just the most fundamental parts of the process, leaving the viewer to infer (or problem solve) the finer details . My clients have found this especially helpful, because the music offers repetition, periodicity and structure to commit the movements to memory and develop strength.

I'd really appreciate it if you could subscribe to the channel! - Sarah

This hair tying song reduces the cognitive load for learning to tie your hair. It uses knowledge implied from the video to support beginners to learn this fi...

16/10/2025

Today we’re using recycled objects to practice gross motor movements with a painting song.

20/07/2025

Neurologic Music Therapy®️ is available in Canberra! We target motor skills including gait rehab and grasp, speech and language skills and use, and cognition including memory, attention, and executive function.

Suitable for clients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, or conditions that affect neural function such as MS, Parkinson's, dementia, aphasia and more.