The Power of Music Therapy

As both the carer of an NDIS participant and an RMT, I’m writing to urge the NDIS to reinstate Music Therapy funding under the Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living category at rates consistent with other Allied Health professionals. Here is our family’s experience to support the significant benefits of Music Therapy.

The Phelan Good Duo Performing at Dining & Co North Ryde

Join us for some awesome live music by THE PHELAN GOOD DUO from Sound Expression, as they present their debut gig at The Dining and Co North Ryde!

Setting the Standard: Celebrating Excellence in NDIS Audit Success

ANOTHER STEP FORWARD TOWARDS A MORE NEURODIVERSE-AFFIRMING PRACTICE

We’ve improved the way we write our goals and objectives AND created an online library for our therapists! We’d like to update you on our latest Quality Improvement Project, that we’ve been diligently enhancing. Our new Evaluation system addresses the Music Therapy goals and objectives that we formulate for each individual client and incorporates neurodiverse-affirming […]

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 […]

How do we do our music therapy at Sound Expression?

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!