Thrive Music: Therapy & Learning

05/05/2025

How can you tell if you're working with an AMTA-registered music therapist?
✔️ Look out for the registered music therapist logo supplied by AMTA - a sure sign!
✔️ Ask for their AMTA registration number, or check that it's on your invoice.
✔️ Get in touch with the Australian Music Therapy Association.

It's our mission to achieve equitable access to safe and effective music therapy services provided by registered music therapists. We work to ensure that anyone who says they provide music therapy is actually a registered music therapist with:
✔️ the proper qualifications, skills and experience to
✔️ competently and safely use music as a therapy tool and
✔️ meet best practice standards for allied health practitioners
✔️ as set out by National Alliance of Self Regulating Health Professions.

AMTA invites you to learn more about the regulatory standards met by registered music therapists: https://www.austmta.org.au/about/about-amta/regulatory-standards/


📷 Logo: AMTA registered music therapist

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11/04/2025

Meaningful moments in music therapy from around the world

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10/04/2025

What happens when music meets therapy? When a registered music therapist is involved, life changes can happen. This World Music Therapy Week, tune in for stories about the impact of music therapy. If you're just learning about music therapy, here's a warm-up:

🎶 Music therapy is evidence-based, and its body of research continues to grow.

🎹 It's provided by allied health professionals who are uniquely qualified to use music as a therapeutic intervention.

🎤 It's regulated by the Australian Music Therapy Association, a member of Allied Health Professions Australia and National Alliance of Self Regulating Health Professions

🎸People of all ages, abilities and backgrounds benefit from music therapy.

🥁 Music therapy is an NDIS-funded support and part of several government-funded programs.

🎺 You'll find registered music therapists in hospitals, clinics, schools, prisons, community centres and working with other allied health professionals like speech pathologists, occupationsl therapists, physiotherapists and more.

Ready to start singing from AMTA's song sheet? Visit our website to learn more about how registered music therapists change lives.

| World Federation of Music Therapy
📷 A registered music therapist plays guitar while a child plays a drum. It is a joyful moment of connection, in a music therapy clinic. Text: "What happens when music meets therapy? World Music Therapy Week."

09/04/2025

This World Music Therapy Week, we're celebrating meaningful moments in music therapy - like this one, between music therapy participants Daniella and her son Lucas, who is diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Since Lucas began sessions with his registered music therapist, Daniella has seen improvements in his ability to engage in school, group sport and social gatherings.

"Music therapy has considerably improved Lucas’ quality of life and access to his community," his mum says. "It has provided him with a new way to communicate with his world, which has significantly reduced his self-harming behaviours.

"Each music therapy session provides Lucas with an uplifting and confidence-boosting experience, and a safe outlet to express his deeply felt emotions. Being able to express how he feels through music has given him the essential skill of self-regulation, and a renewed sense of meaning and purpose in life."

Thank you, Lucas and Daniella, for sharing this moment with our music therapy community.

From 10 to 15 April each year, World Music Therapy Week celebrates the power of music in healing and connection. In Australia, we choose to spend the week shining a spotlight on registered music therapists. To learn more about how these allied health professionals provide life-changing, evidence-based interventions to improve health and wellbeing, visit the Australian Music Therapy Association. https://www.austmta.org.au/

| World Federation of Music Therapy
📷 A woman holds out a shaker instrument to a child, who looks at it intensely. It is a moment of deep connection between the two. Other percussion instruments are nearby. The text says "World Music Therapy Week".

09/04/2025

Today is the start of World Music Therapy Week!
This week celebrates the amazing work of Registered Music Therapists; allied health professionals who use the power of music to create joy and connection, improve health outcomes, and change the lives of the people they work with.
To all my music therapy colleagues, have a wonderful week! 🎶

01/04/2025

🎉 World Music Therapy Week is approaching, and this year we have a lot to celebrate - because this year is AMTA's 50th anniversary! We're kicking off the celebrations during World Music Therapy Week 2025 - an international event held each year between 10 and 15 April to put registered music therapists in the spotlight.

It's the perfect time to start celebrating AMTA’s milestone: five decades of impact, innovation and creating meaningful moments in music therapy. ❤️🎵

Already, our members are planning events around the country - so stay tuned for more!

Read more at https://tinyurl.com/49fzcvmz



📷 Text: "World Music Therapy Week 2025. Celebrating 50 years of orchestrating impact." Logo: AMTA 50th anniversary. Background image: a collage of music therapists and music therapy participants.

14/03/2025

📣 NDIS UPDATE 📣

The Independent Review into music therapy in the NDIS was due to release the findings report today.

This has now been extended until the 17th April to give Dr Duckett more time to assess the more than 600 submissions received.

It is important to note NDIS participants can continue to access music and art therapy through their current arrangements during the review process.

Furthermore, NDIS providers may continue claiming at current pricing levels as listed in the NDIS Pricing Arrangements.

Any proposed changes will not come into operation until after the review is completed and the relevant findings are considered.

To read the NDIA’s full statement: https://ndis.gov.au/news/10644-review-music-and-art-therapy-update

04/02/2025

Excellent overview from DSC about music therapy & NDIS. Don’t forget - submissions to the review close tomorrow 7th Feb!

Remember that debacle late last year? In this quick update, Sara looks at the independent review into the pricing structure of art and music therapy, the NDIA’s proposed (and now paused) changes and the role of art and music therapy.