Tuned In Music Therapy

17/09/2025

Honestly, this musical memory just popped up and could not be better timed. By chance, our singing mamas arranged it on Monday too. Will share that later.

For now, for everyone, “don’t worry, bout a thing, cos every little thing, gonna be alright”.

Thanks Evergreen Music for the musical memory. Supporting kids of all ages, all abilities to be musicians for life. Miss M still plays. Love your work 🎶

14/09/2025

Our weekly singing group, Mondays 9:30am. Mums supporting mums, singing for wellbeing, learning simple songs - no sheet music required. All voices welcome. Kids attend and play in our circle of song. LEAP Centre

11/09/2025

🎶 We’ve Launched – Tune In, Vibe Up!

Today marked the first session of our new inclusive workshops for high school students focused on music for health and wellbeing. And what an amazing start.

Session 1 of 4 explored why music matters for our health… and how we use it in both healthy and, sometimes, unhealthy ways. We also introduced students to MoodyTunes, an app that connects with Spotify to create playlists to support your mood.

📍 Hosted at Cromer High School for Years 8–9, our program welcomed 60 students to the workshops from across mainstream and specialist learning support classes.

📊 Student evaluations shared that:
• 75% learned something new about how music affects their health
• 68% would recommend the workshop to a friend
• 69% now feel more confident using music in healthy ways

💛 Huge thanks to the brilliant teachers and staff at Cromer High School for their warm welcome and support for us and their students. The vibe was really good!

We can’t wait to be back for Session 2, where we’ll dive into accessible and collaborative songwriting.

Thanks to Ellen Mara, registered music therapist. Photos by Marcos from Little Frames creative and digital agency. Thanks also to Dr Sandra Garrido from Moody Tunes.

This project is grant funded by Northern Beaches Council

02/09/2025

Music Therapy and speech therapy working together to develop your child's communication skills.

Our favourite collaboration is back - Amplify - jointly led by Anita from Tuned In Music Therapy and Gabi from LEAP Centre.

This small group session focuses on play, singing and storytelling using speech and music therapy strategies to expand communication for children in their early years.

Parents will gain practical techniques to use at home, while children have fun in play and song.

Limited place available - book via https://www.leaptherapies.com.au/programs/school-holiday-programs-and-activities/

26/08/2025

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22/08/2025

The news is never glorious, global issues so hard, but local to home, healthcare for people with disability, and specifically autistic children is becoming a hard read. Heidi on behalf of Every Australian Counts tells it like it is.

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...

22/07/2025

Music education matters, music therapy matters, music for health matters. Quite frankly… music matters. A key theme from the music in me summit from

Pic 1. So great to meet up with fellow RMTs, Bronte and Vanessa … loved seeing you both 😍

Pic 2. Quote shared from Richard Gill- “every child should have the opportunity to learn and create music”. Yes, yes and yes to that 👏And what Richard Gill has created in terms of mentoring for educators is simply brilliant.
How many times will I say the word brilliant in this caption? 😊

Pic 3. The brilliant Bronte, Registered Music Therapist from presenting to music educators … heaps of rich and interactive content. Congrats Bronte 🎉, your presentation was fantastic … nearly said brilliant again 😔.

Pic 4. A wonderful panel who shared why music matters. Themes of how children in primary school, who rarely spoke, engaged and communicated in creative music classes from Rachel Scott (cellist and educator) and Estelle Southall, school principal.

Sadly, government funding is raised as a challenge … when will we ever have the funding needed for the music and the arts?

However, that didn’t detract from panel shares of increased belonging, identity, community and communication that comes from investing in music in the early years.

There was so much more ‘brilliant’ content but I didn’t snap it all. Workshops a-plenty and everyone invited to play, dance and sing. The best way really … we all know how music supports and strongly reinforces learning and connection.

Overall, it was great. Yep, I’ll say it again… Brilliant.

I highly recommend attending this event if you can next year.

Thanks ‘Music in Me’ for a great event. It was so good and the perfect way to start the first week of term 3.

20/07/2025

Back to reality… Monday vibes. Joy, hope, tiredness … and guitars … we’re ready to take it on

25/06/2025

love the Beatles, love . So many great songs from the fab 4. Memories of family and friends all wrapped up in the Beatles. I went to University in Liverpool and met my friends for life there 💕

This picture is of a ‘larger than real life’ statue of the Beatles with my three daughters hiding between Paul, John, Ringo and George’s legs. It’s located on the Pier Head in Liverpool and looks out to the River Mersey. You can’t miss it!

25/06/2025

In a world where everything is under pressure in the NDIS, you may be wondering why we're still advocating so hard. Well, the independent review into the pricing and status of music therapy in the NDIS is still ongoing (7months and counting). And, just yesterday, we, once again heard misrepresentation of music therapy first-hand.

In response, Anita Connell (Registered Music Therapist and founder of Tuned In Connections & Tuned In Music Therapy) got back on the advocacy train.

Read why Anita firmly believes that music therapy should be funded as a therapeutic support in the NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme, so that
NDIS Participants and Providers Australia, can choose creative arts therapies to support their health goals.

Today, I found myself frustrated again, responding to yet another misrepresentation of music therapy in the NDIS. So, I thought I’d share in words some advocacy. For people who need music therapy and for therapists and advocates who keep showing up to make that happen.

19/06/2025

A great morning of collaboration, connection and discussion with Sydney North Health Network.

The purpose, for healthcare providers, caregivers and communities to work together to help people live their “best health”.

Across the lifespan - starting well, living well and ageing well.

All with the aim of fostering connected communities to reduce social isolation, improve healthcare and eradicate service inequity. Oh, and an area I’m passionate about, “preventative healthcare”.

From all the dialogue in the room and despite the challenges, I left with a real sense that this can be achieved. Certainly in this health network.

If you’re in Sydney North and curious about the plans, scan the QR code and connect in. This is about everyone coming together to transform health and community and it’s going to require a team effort. From a team passionate about healthcare for everyone.

If you’re in other areas, connect to your local primary health network to find out more.

Thank you Sydney North Health Network. A wonderful event and an inspiring vision ☺️

19/02/2025

Music IS the medium for change. Or certainly, that’s our philosophy and experience as music therapists. Within music therapy, working with the therapeutic and relational experience in music we see improvements in

🙌 self-discovery and identity
🙌 communication and self-expression
🙌 understanding of emotions and emotional wellbeing
🙌 memory, attention and creative thinking
🙌 confidence to engage socially with others

All of this from music 🎶

There’s many more benefits of music and music therapy in all the literature. These are what we see the most in the work we do.

Message us if you’d like to find out more.

Or visit our website (www.tunedinmusictherapy.com) or for Instagram followers, the link in our bio to find tips for using music at home.