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Using music as a tool to help you improve your health and wellbeing, change and develop your neuro-pathways, and achieve your goals

12/11/2025

🔦 Instrument Spotlight: Ukulele! 🎸

The ukulele is another fan favourite in music therapy! Perfectly sized for children, who make up most of our current clientele, we as therapists also love them for their portability. Being lightweight makes them accessible for kids, and for participants of any age who may find it difficult to lift or hold heavier instruments. This makes the ukulele a great alternative to a full sized guitar, while being able to hone the same skills.

Using multiple fingers to create a chord shape or press the string to play a melody allows participants to work on their fine motor skills. Having to strum with the other hand also benefits bilateral movements and bihemispheric brain functioning. As it requires concentration to use both hands at once, various cognitive skills are also developed by playing the ukulele, such as attention, learning, memory, organisation and planning.

15/10/2025

📣 We have moved! 📣

Over the school holidays, Eliza prepared to go on a break for a while, and Jess set up her new space, getting ready to go solo in the meantime 🤩

The new office has been up and running for about two weeks now. Signage is yet to be finalised, but that hasn’t stopped the music! 🎶

It’s been exciting, and (let’s be honest) a bit scary - for some participants AND for Jess. But we are loving the fresh space, as well as the familiar instruments and the new ones 🥁

And we’re really looking forward to settling in and rocking out during term 4 🎸

📍 Find our new address, and directions to the office entrance, on the “contact” page of our website (link in comments)

18/09/2025

On Wednesday the 10th of September, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) released the report of the Independent Review of Music and Art Therapy in the NDIS, led by Dr Stephen Duckett. The NDIA and AMTA have also shared responses.

POSITIVE OUTCOMES:
• Music therapy is retained as a funded therapeutic support under the NDIS
• Only AMTA-registered music therapists can deliver music therapy services in the NDIS
• This recognition aligns music therapy with other allied health professions (e.g. speech pathology and dietetics), underscoring the profession’s standards and clinical expertise

CONCERNS FOR THE MUSIC THERAPY PROFESSION:
• Pricing cuts were announced by the NDIA upon publication of Dr Duckett’s report. The maximum hourly rate will be reduced from $193.99/hour to $156.16/hour, effective from the 24th of November
• This 20% reduction will make it very difficult for many services to remain viable. The Music and Art Therapy communities are concerned that participants may lose access to these supports when clinics are forced to close

The AMTA is committed to continued advocacy and constructive communication with government bodies to ensure participants can continue to access the supports they need.

For more information about the Independent Review, and to read the full or summarised Duckett Report, as well as the NDIA's response, please visit the link in the comments. To read the Australian Music Therapy Association's response, please see their website or visit their social media pages.

20/08/2025

Want to learn more about music therapy, or about the steps and requirements to join our growing body of Registered Music Therapists here in Australia?

Head over to the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA) page for more info and to register for the upcoming “Music Therapy Careers Night” webinar!

06/08/2025

Here’s a song that Jess, one of our RMTs, co-wrote with a young participant recently! 🎶

We use greeting songs in music therapy to help with:
• Routines
• Social skills
•Taking turns
• Recalling names
• Following instructions, such as identifying and playing instruments or doing actions
• Or sometimes just to set the mood and warm up for the session

This participant has also been exploring emotions - notice how they identified that they are “happy” to be at music and that they don’t have to “worry”! We love to see our participants enjoying themselves while they learn and develop a variety of life skills 🎉

15/07/2025

We love this quote from Debasish Mridha, American physician, neurologist, sleep medicine specialist, philosopher, and author 🎵🩺❤️‍🩹

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3/111 Toolooa Street
Gladstone, QLD
4680

Website

https://cqmusictherapy.com.au/

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