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Baselines in Music Therapy

Joe Thompson

28 episodes

5 months ago

An 'emergency' podcast recorded and released amidst the current events regarding proposed changes to music therapy funding and the NDIS in Australia. We've just learnt that one of the key critiques of the NDIA, is that music therapists are not providing sufficient "clinical evidence" for their work. While some of this is likely coming from non-RMTs, acting fraudulently, the reports of all RMTs are clearly under examination. To support RMTs to be giving sufficient clinical evidence, I speak ...

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Alternative Health

Performing Arts,

Health & Fitness,

Music Interviews

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An 'emergency' podcast recorded and released amidst the current events regarding proposed changes to music therapy funding and the NDIS in Australia. We've just learnt that one of the key critiques of the NDIA, is that music therapists are not providing sufficient "clinical evidence" for their work. While some of this is likely coming from non-RMTs, acting fraudulently, the reports of all RMTs are clearly under examination. To support RMTs to be giving sufficient clinical evidence, I speak ...

Show more...

Alternative Health

Performing Arts,

Health & Fitness,

Music Interviews

Episodes (20/28)

Baselines in Music Therapy

Melissa Hale: clinical evidence

An 'emergency' podcast recorded and released amidst the current events regarding proposed changes to music therapy funding and the NDIS in Australia. We've just learnt that one of the key critiques of the NDIA, is that music therapists are not providing sufficient "clinical evidence" for their work. While some of this is likely coming from non-RMTs, acting fraudulently, the reports of all RMTs are clearly under examination. To support RMTs to be giving sufficient clinical evidence, I speak ...

11 months ago

32 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Bonus Episode: standardised assessments in measurement and reporting

This episode is a condensed version of an online PD Joe ran on using standardised assessments in measurement and reporting for music therapy.

1 year ago

17 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Elena Bellinato: grief and trauma

Elena Bellinato works as a Social Worker and Registered music therapist. She has worked extensively in various community settings providing counselling to children, adults and families. She specialises in working with people who have or are currently experiencing trauma, mental health concerns and bereavement. She currently works for Sing&Grow providing music therapy sessions for young children and their families. She works from an attachment and family centred approach. ...

1 year ago

22 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Julie Bill: crossovers in creative therapies

Julie Bill is a Danish born art therapist who is currently working and living in Australia. Julie graduated in 2021 from Western Sydney University with a master degree in art therapy and has been working with children in clinical settings since 2023. Julie has also worked a year in Denmark, where she ran two community based art therapeutic groups for children. In this episode, Joe and Julie discuss a framework for implementing art materials in art therapy and the potential insights it ...

1 year ago

28 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Behiye Suren: language reawakening through music

Behiye (Be) Suren is an Australian born singer/songwriter. Her original fusion folk music (in English and Turkish) weaves the rhythms and melodies of her two homelands Sydney and Istanbul. Behiye’s artistic practice and her belief in the healing power of self-expression through singing and songwriting is summed up by a quote from Turkish folk musician Erkan Owur "Everybody should make music, every creature and every object has music inside it and everybody should search for their own."&...

1 year ago

29 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Bonus Episode: Joe on 'SurroundSounds'

My interview as a guest on SurroundSounds. Listen to SurroundSounds on... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/surroundsounds/id1705938397 Or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@APlaceToBe/videos

1 year ago

51 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Emma Bailey & Mary-Clare Fearn: international impressions

Today I speak with two UK-based music therapists about their journeys to Neurologic Music Therapy Services Of Arizona. Emma Bailey is a UK-based Music Therapist and music therapy Supervisor. Originally trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Emma has studied infant mental health and child development at the Tavistock Clinic and the School of Infant Mental Health in London, and she completed the additional NMT training in 2019. As a Music Therapist in a National Health Child Devel...

1 year ago

29 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Ingrid Gruett: MSOT, regulation & older adults

Ingrid Gruett completed her Bachelor of Music degree from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, her Music Therapy Equivalency from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, and her Master of Music Degree from Alverno College. Ingrid is a board-certified music therapist, a Wisconsin Music Therapist-Registered and a Certified Dementia Practitioner who specializes in providing evidenced-based services and 1:1 support to persons with dementia and to their caregivers. Ingrid is the owner and direc...

2 years ago

30 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Joe Thompson: 12,569 kms away

Joe Thompson is a Neurologic Music Therapist currently working at Spring Forward Family Centre in Penrith, NSW. He specialises in using the properties of music, especially rhythm, to support Autistic people to navigate their sensory and movement challenges. Much of his approach is informed by experiences he gained while working overseas at Neurologic Music Therapy Services Of Arizona in Phoenix, USA. As well as a clinician, Joe has served as past chair of the AMTA NSW branch, and creat...

2 years ago

37 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Suzanne Oliver: the brain and relationships

Suzanne Oliver is the founder and executive director of Neurologic Music Therapy Services Of Arizona - an NMT clinic based in Phoenix, AZ that has been serving the community there for over 40 years. Over the years, she has employed up to as many as 21 therapists at one time, and currently has 6 NMTs working in their clinical setting serving a variety of children and adults with neurologic impairments. Additionally, from 2007 thru 2019, NMTSA had a school for non-speaking students with a...

2 years ago

35 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Samantha Schoeler-Jones: a road less travelled

Today’s guest on baselines is Samantha Schoeler Jones. This episode continues with our international theme, but allows for a hiatus from the people I met on my America trip, as we follow Sam’s own extraordinary journey which took her to the other side of the northern hemisphere. There are few people who can claim to have a more colourful answer to ‘how did you become a music therapist’ than Sam Samantha completed a Bachelor of Music in Performance in flute at the Western Australian Aca...

2 years ago

26 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Cheryl Butterworth: Colin's journey

Cheryl Butterworth is the Operations manager at Neurologic Music Therapy Services Of Arizona. She is also the mother of a long-term client of the clinic, Colin, who has Autism. In this episode, Cheryl shares the joys and challenges, as well as some funnier moments from their journey.

2 years ago

25 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Leanna Moore: from client to therapist

Leanna is the clinical training director at the Neurologic Music Therapy Services of Arizona. Leanna attended Appalachian State University for her undergraduate degree, and completed her Master's Degree through Colorado State University. Having been exposed to a lot of GIM-style music therapy in her undergrad, she was excited to eventually learn about Neurologic music therapy and how it can be implemented. She worked at a company called Life in Harmony Music Therapy, LLC from 2016-2019, and t...

3 years ago

24 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Jessi Teich: practice and research in ASD

Jessi Teich is a PhD candidate in Music and Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. In 2007, she received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Berklee College of Music. After graduating Magna Cum Laude, Jessi taught lessons while pursuing a music career during which she won over a dozen international songwriting awards and recorded several albums, including two in Paris. In 2017, after a decade-long career, she decided to restructure the role that music played in her life. Subseq...

3 years ago

33 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Erin Skinner: broader musings

Erin Skinner is a Registered Music Therapist, with a broad range of experience working with groups and individuals across the life span. She is currently working with children and families in mental health, and in disability. She has a passion for working alongside children and families to support healthy relationships, emotional wellbeing, resilience and creative self-expression through strengths-based approaches. Today we chatted about approaches, the role of music, transcendence and how p...

3 years ago

25 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Tegan Sheedy Wineman: outback RMT

Tegan is a Registered Music Therapist, Neurologic Music Therapist, and Music Tutor currently practicing in regional NSW. She has run a private music therapy practice for four years and has recently opened a music school to better serve the local community. She acts as the regional representative for the AMTA NSW branch and is passionate about closing the gap of services available in regional and metro areas. I invited her on so that we could discuss a topic that has always been of interest to...

3 years ago

23 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Ann Lehmann-Kuit: Song creation

Ann Lehmann-Kuit is an experienced Nordoff Robbins music therapist, lecturer, guitar teacher, performer and community event organiser. She is passionate about giving people of all ages opportunities to ignite their expressive confidence. Ann lectures at Western Sydney University in the MCMT program and lectures in the undergraduate music degree at UOW. Ann is senior music therapist at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music where she also teaches Classical Guitar. Ann coordinates ...

3 years ago

27 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Grace Elliott & Pete McDonald: New Songs for Music Therapy

Pete McDonald graduated with a Bachelor of Music majoring in Jazz piano performance, receiving the Student of the Year award, and spent a long time practicing, gigging, teaching, recording, composing, and other music related activities aiming to pay off a mortgage and get two kids through school. After returning to study and completing his Masters of Music Therapy, as well as training in Neurologic Music Therapy, he now focuses on clinical work (along with the occasional gig with...

3 years ago

28 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Adam Van Eyk: learning from first steps

Adam van Eyk is an RMT currently working for Noro Music Therapy as the new graduate RMT manager and supervisor. Previously Adam has filled roles within Noro of Aged Care & Adult Disability Practice Lead, Assets Manager and member of the clinic operations team. Outside of music therapy, Adam is an avid performer in different tribute shows all over Sydney playing both saxophone and guitar.

3 years ago

23 minutes

Baselines in Music Therapy

Tanya Silveira: the effects of playing ThumbJam in stroke rehab

Tanya is a Registered Music Therapist based in Sydney, Australia. In 2019, Tanya was invited to speak about her PhD research at the inaugural TEDxNewtown event. More recently, Tanya was named the inaugural recipient of the 2020-2021 Australian Music Therapist of the Year award for her contribution to the field of music therapy. Over the years, Tanya has presented internationally and nationally on her research and clinical work. Her research can be found in journals such International Journal ...

3 years ago

36 minutes