FAQ'sFrequently Asked Questions

In music therapy, we use the properties of music, rhythm, and sound waves to help achieve non-musical goals like communication, specific movements or speech, processing and improving emotion, and lots more! It is an evidence-based practice supported by the NDIS.

To make more sessions available, we are only operating from our premises in Fyshwick at this stage. We have mobility accessible parking, a flat accessible entryway, and a mobility accessible bathroom within our premises. We are also next door to Canberra Outlet Centre, so it’s the perfect opportunity to grab a cuppa or do some shopping.

We specialise in individual music therapy, so we do not offer traditional/regular music lessons. We do offer ‘supported music lessons’ which are more about therapeutic engagement than academic progress.

Music therapy sessions are designed so that it’s not your job to be musical. You may make music if you wish, but your therapist’s job is to support you in achieving your own (non-musical) goals, using sound. There is no preparation, no practice, and no expectation to be “correct”. In many cases, our work will draw on the automatic, subconscious responses your brain will have to a musical stimulus – often well beyond our own awareness!

Sarah Grey is a registered music therapist who holds a Master of Creative Music Therapy, a Bachelor of Music with first-class honours (ANU), a Graduate Certificate in Publishing and Editing, and is a trained Neurologic Music Therapist through the NMT academy. She has also completed AMEB exams through to AmusA level, and has a wealth of experience from teaching and conducting individuals and large-scale ensembles for over 20 years.

We have no doubt you feel good listening to music you’ve selected, but that’s not music therapy! In a music therapy session we select content that applies specific pitch, tempo, rhythm, and themes to help you meet specific clinical goals. We also play music on instruments that accurately meets and enables your own self-expression, and may be set up or designed in such a way to develop a physical goal (such as strength, co-ordination or brain activity). We also indulge your creativity by providing instruments you most likely don’t have handy at home. Whether we are writing songs to help process emotion or entraining your neurons to trigger hormone release and regulate your heartbeat, gait, or breathing, it’s all possible with music!

YES! The field of music therapy has an enormous body of supporting peer-reviewed scientific research and evidence. It is also supported by the NDIS. It is a valuable Allied Health therapy, in a similar way to physiotherapy, speech therapy or occupational therapy.

YES! There is disabled parking at our front door, at 24 Iron Knob Street Fyshwick. Regular parking is available in the same lot. We also have flat entry (with a ramp from the car park), and an accessible bathroom.