Empowering Children to Express Grief through Music

We were honoured to have recently volunteered our time to work with the National Centre for Childhood Grief (NCCG, formerly A Friend’s Place) on a project with their Kids Group.   This group of bereaved children, who have experienced the loss of a parent or sibling, worked together with their counsellors and with Grace and […]

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Accidental Counsellor Training – Professional Development

Many thanks to Rocky Biasi from Human Connections for his incredible Professional Development Workshop for our team called ‘The Accidental Counsellor’. Working in a helping profession like ours, we are often faced with scenarios where we need to respond appropriately when clients and families open up to us about a range of difficulties and stressors […]

Associate Professor Grace Thompson conducted an empowering seminar for our team!

We were honoured to have Associate Professor Grace Thompson, Head of Music Therapy at Melbourne University conduct a Professional Development seminar for our Sound Expression team this month. We delved deeply into discussions on humanism, post-humanism; ableism and post-ableism. It was a fantastic discussion and very valuable for our team as we look to embrace […]

Damian Khoury

WELCOME TO THE TEAM, DAMIAN KHOURY!

This month we welcome Damian into our Sound Expression team! Damian has been volunteering at Sound Expression since mid last year. He is now joining us officially as a Music Therapy Assistant whilst studying the Master of Music Therapy course. Damian has a Bachelor of Music and a dual diploma in Audio Production and Music […]

What is Music Therapy like? A parent’s point of view

As part of World Music Therapy week 2023 (10 – 15 April) – we hear from Zeb’s mum about her experience of music therapy with Zeb!

Merry Christmas 2022 and Happy New Year 2023!

We’re Interviewing now for 2023 RMT positions

Karuka’s Passion in Photography

Karuka is an inspiring client of ours who has found a passion in photography and has gone on to produce an acclaimed photography website titled ‘Down to earth’. She has won awards for her work and her photos have been displayed in various exhibitions. Her story was put together by her sister Satara into a […]

Christine

Welcome to the team, Christine Morson!

Welcome to Christine Morson who is joining our Saturday team over the next 6 months while Lydia Wang is on maternity leave. Christine joins us with over 17 years of experience as a music therapist – her experience encompasses adults and children with a broad range of disabilities, young children in early intervention settings, adolescents […]