Music Therapy

Areas of practice:

  • Autism

  • Early Childhood/Early Intervention

  • Aged Care

  • Mental Health – Adult/Adolescent

  • Psychosocial Disability

  • Adult Disability

  • Acquired Brain Injury

Working with goals related to:

Cognition

  • Increasing memory

  • Increasing attention: sustained, alternating and selective attention

  • Increasing executive functioning: planning, organisation, inhibition and self monitoring

  • Developing emotional regulation

  • Increasing sensory processing and integration

  • Increasing initiation and motivation

  • Increasing autonomy and community participation

Capacity Building for Community Participation

  • Developing a sense of empowerment

  • Developing a sense of belonging and social connectedness

  • Increasing community participation

  • Developing a sense of purpose

  • Increasing social inclusion

  • Increasing opportunities for choice and agency

  • Developing peer relationships

Communication

  • Developing receptive language

  • Developing expressive language

  • Developing speech articulation and pronunciation

  • Managing stuttering

  • Developing social communication skills; including social understanding, non-verbal communication

  • Decreasing social isolation

Motor Skills and Mobility

  • Increasing gross motor function and control

  • Increasing fine motor function and control

  • Developing proprioception and balance

  • Increasing function of the respiratory system

  • Increasing mobility

  • Increasing physical independence

Sessions are held in one of three formats

Centre-based

Centre-based sessions are held in an easily accessible, light filled studio space at Keon Park Children’s Hub in Reservoir.

Mobile Service

Inhabit Music Therapy operates as a mobile practice, providing music therapy services to homes, disability day centres, schools and supported accomodation in the Darebin, Moreland, Nillimbuk, Banyule, Moonee Valley, Maribyrnong, Brimbank and Hume districts.

Telehealth

Telehealth is fully-funded by the NDIS. Sessions take place through video-conferencing. The Telehealth format allows for increased continuity of access to music therapy services when face-to-face sessions are not available.