Sound Effect Music Therapy, Geelong & Surrounds, VIC

12/02/2026

Did you know that art and music are not the icing on the cake when it comes to human evolution?

12/02/2026

Did you know that art and music were not “the icing on the cake” in human anthropology?

04/02/2026

🧠Do you know someone with a brain injury or disease? Someone working on recovering their speech, movement, or memory after a stroke or brain injury, or navigating a progressive illness like dementia or Parkinson's? Neurologic Music Therapy™ can help!

Hi 👋 I'm Sarah Grey and I'm a Registered Music Therapist trained in Neurologic Music Therapy™. I use music to retrain the brain to improve communication including speech and listening, movement including gait, reach, and grasp, and cognition including memory.

🎼Music therapy is evidence-based and is funded by the NDIS. I currently offer in-home music therapy services for adults with neurological conditions, to Geelong and Torquay, with availability for immediate start. No music skill is required, and I provide all content and equipment.

Contact me today to find out more about how music therapy could support your therapeutic goals!

📞Phone 0414 434 156

📧 Email admin@soundeffectmusictherapy.com.au

💻 Website www.soundeffectmusictherapy.com.au

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26/01/2026

Neurologic Music Therapy® is now available in the comfort of your own home in Geelong and Torquay, Victoria.

Specially designed for people navigating neurologic conditions - including rehabilitation after stroke - Neurologic Music Therapy® uses rhythm and music to support the brain’s natural ability to heal and re-organise.

✨ How it can help:
• Motor skills & movement
• Walking and gait
• Speech and communication
• Co-ordination and timing
• Cognition – including memory, attention & executive function

This is not just listening to music—it’s evidence-based therapy, delivered one-on-one by a qualified Registered Music Therapist, and tailored to your goals. Music Therapy is a therapeutic support under the NDIS.

Whether you’re early in recovery or further along your journey, music can become a powerful partner in regaining confidence, independence, and quality of life 💙

📍 Home visits available in Geelong & Torquay
📩 Message us to learn more or book a session

05/01/2026

Do you know someone recovering from stroke, navigating Parkinson's, Huntington's, or Alzheimers (and more), or who has had a brain injury? Music Therapy can help!

Hello GEELONG! 🎶🧠
Referrals are now OPEN for adult neurorehabilitation sessions with neurologic music therapy™ (NMT®). We use custom-created musical tasks and engagement to work on goals in speech and communication, cognition and memory, balance, gait and coordination. This therapy is funded by the NDIS and suitable for clients managing recovery and maintenance after brain injury, stroke, or neurological diseases/disorders.

Sarah Grey is a registered music therapist and an affiliate of the Neurologic Music Therapy™ academy. Neurologic Music Therapy™ appointments are available in Geelong and Torquay, VIC.

19/11/2025

Contact us for Neurologic Music Therapy™ appointments in Geelong.

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Moving to musical rhythm significantly improves gait and other motor functions compared to self-paced movement in neurorehabilitation.

Using brain network science, a recent collaborative study between researchers at the University of Toronto Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) and Wake Forest University sheds new light on why this occurs:

✨ Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS)® optimizes how neurons talk to each other and harnesses them into a more closely connected and well synchronized brain network in the Basal Ganglia, a critical region for rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease. Stable, tightly coupled, and efficient neural connections are necessary engines to improve timing, consistency, and spatial control of movement. This evidence of strong plasticity in connectivity in neural networks is key in understanding why music/rhythm based Neurologic Music Therapy® interventions are powerful neuromodulatory tools.

You can read the full paper here:
Lavigne S, Burdette J, Bahrami M, Laurien P, Lyday R, Thaut MH. 2025. Altered
basal ganglia networks topology associated with auditory-motor
synchronization. Brain & Behavior, doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70695
Available at: nmtacademy.co/research-publications/

Additional studies:
Pranjic M, Braun Janzen T, Vuksic N, Thaut MH. 2024. From sound to
movement: Mapping neural mechanisms of auditory-motor entrainment
and synchronization. Brain Sciences, doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14111063
Koshimori Y, Thaut MH. 2023. Rhythmic auditory stimulation as potential
neuromodulator for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson and Related Disorders,
doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105459

10/11/2025

Did you know? You can now access Music Therapy online — fully funded by the NDIS, anywhere in Australia 🇦🇺

Whether you’re looking to improve communication, emotional wellbeing, motor skills, or self-expression, our registered music therapists are here to support you from the comfort of your home 💻🎵

✨ Why choose Music Therapy via Telehealth?
✅ NDIS-funded (no out-of-pocket cost for eligible participants)
✅ Accessible from any location with internet
✅ Personalised sessions to meet your goals
✅ Creative, empowering, and fun!

🧡 Let the power of music help you grow, connect, and thrive.

📞 DM us today or visit www.soundeffectmusictherapy.com.au/telehealth/ to learn more and book your first online session!

04/11/2025

Music is not just art. It’s cognitive training disguised as joy. In music therapy we carefully consider the brain’s responses to musical stimuli, and use this to our advantage to commit tasks and knowledge to memory, establish beneficial habits and patterns, and recruit and stimulate specific brain regions to action. That’s why music therapy is so effective across a broad range of therapeutic goals - music is the only thing that can recruit so many parts of the brain simultaneously.

Neurologic Music Therapy® is available in Geelong/Torquay for adults managing or recovering from brain injury or illnesses such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, stroke, aphasia, dementia, and many more. We use music to target goals across speech, motor, and cognition/memory. Spaces available to commence mid-December or in 2026! Book now.

03/11/2025

Hello GEELONG! 🎶🧠
Referrals are now OPEN for adult neurorehabilitation sessions with neurologic music therapy™ (NMT®). We use custom-created musical tasks and engagement to work on goals in speech and communication, cognition and memory, balance, gait and coordination. This therapy is funded by the NDIS and suitable for clients managing recovery and maintenance after brain injury, stroke, or neurological diseases/disorders.

Sarah Grey is a registered music therapist and an affiliate of the Neurologic Music Therapy™ academy. She is offering a mobile music therapy service from mid December 2025 in Geelong and Torquay, VIC.

26/10/2025

🎶✨ Big changes ahead for Sound Effect Music Therapy! ✨🎶

After many wonderful years in Canberra, we’re closing our Fyshwick office and hitting the road 🚐🎵 — moving to Geelong/Torquay, Victoria to become a mobile music therapy service!

While NDIS fee cuts have made clinic spaces harder to sustain, this shift opens up an exciting new chapter — bringing music directly to clients and focusing on adult neurorehabilitation. 💪🧠🎶

If you know someone recovering from stroke, brain injury, or managing neurological conditions such as Parkinsons or dementia in Geelong and surrounds, please let them know we have appointments ready to start in December, 2025. We work on functional goals such as recovering speech, improving memory and cognition, and regulating gait and movement (and a lot more!)

A heartfelt thank-you to our amazing Canberra clients and colleagues for your support and music over the years. 💛

Stay tuned as we unpack, tune up, and start this new melody down south. 🎵

21/10/2025

Have you seen our YouTube channel? We are gradually sharing a range of ADL songs (Activities of Daily Life) that clients have found helpful in the past. This is the Hair Tying Song. It intentionally focuses on just the most fundamental parts of the process, leaving the viewer to infer (or problem solve) the finer details . My clients have found this especially helpful, because the music offers repetition, periodicity and structure to commit the movements to memory and develop strength.

I'd really appreciate it if you could subscribe to the channel! - Sarah

This hair tying song reduces the cognitive load for learning to tie your hair. It uses knowledge implied from the video to support beginners to learn this fi...

16/10/2025

Today we’re using recycled objects to practice gross motor movements with a painting song.