Wellington Music Therapy Services

Wellington Music Therapy Services Clinical music therapy services to promote development, well being and social change.

05/23/2026

We’re thrilled to launch our Radical Ageing through Music Collaborative (RAMC) Blog. RAMC aims to engage in bold conversations with a wide range of stakeholders, including older adults, caregivers, care partners, music therapist clinicians and researchers, other arts in health advocates, scholars, agencies, foundations, healthcare organisations, and governments.

Founded by Prof. Annie Heiderscheit, Prof. Ming-Hung Hsu, Dr Laurel Young, and Dr Concetta Tomaino, the Radical Ageing through Music Collaborative brings together international leaders in music, ageing, health, and research to champion innovative, inclusive, and evidence-informed approaches to ageing well through music https://www.aru.ac.uk/cambridge-institute-for-music-therapy-research/our-research/healthy-ageing-and-dementia/radical-ageing-through-music-collaborative

05/13/2026

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April 10-15 2026: World Music Therapy Week 🎶The World Federation of Music Therapy, Incorporated is a non-profit corporat...
04/15/2026

April 10-15 2026: World Music Therapy Week 🎶

The World Federation of Music Therapy, Incorporated is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the state of North Carolina, USA. Its aim is to promote music therapy throughout the world and act as the international umbrella organization for the profession of music therapy.

Music therapy is the professional use of music and its elements as an intervention in medical, educational, and everyday environments with individuals, groups, families, or communities who seek to optimize their quality of life and improve their physical, social, communicative, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health and well-being.

During World Music Therapy Week, music therapists and supporters are encouraged to engage in activities that increase awareness of and advocacy for music therapy. World Music Therapy Week also serves to highlight the global connectedness of music therapy.

The WFMT envisions a world where music therapy is universally accessible, culturally integrated, and professionally recognized, while also advancing the global development, accessibility, and recognition of music therapy. They continue promoting scientific research, evidence- informed and innovative practices, and advocate for quality education and training.

Source: wfmt.info

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It is time for another edition of Let's Learn; a series where we share recent research and resources put together by our...
04/02/2026

It is time for another edition of Let's Learn; a series where we share recent research and resources put together by our team member Hailey! This round, we are talking about and Termination 🎶

What is clinical termination:
Clinical termination in music therapy is defined as an ethically and clinically appropriate process (Younggren & Gottlieb, 2008) that helps the client end the professional relationship and continue to make changes independently (Schneider Corey & Corey, 2015).

Types of termination in clinical music therapy:
- Gradual Termination: Termination process over multiple sessions
- Abrupt Termination: when sessions end with little or no notice
- Single Session Termination: When you only have 1 session with a client
- Immediate Termination: These occurred in medical and mental health settings
- Refusal of treatment: “In these situations, people either refused to participate during sessions or did not attend sessions.”

Types of termination in music therapy cont':
- Transition to Group Termination: a transition from 1:1 services to group services.
- Microtermination: Services were started and stopped as needed over a long-term treatment plan.
- Termination in Limbo: “In these scenarios, a person’s discharge process was initiated but left incomplete.”
- Soft Termination: “In this case, the [client] had reached their goals in one area of need and then showed curiosity about music therapy treatment for another area of need.”
(Abbott, E. A. 2023)

Termination with Autistic children:
- Many children’s therapy ends due to external factors, & the child may not feel ready, & therefore feel abandoned
- Therapist should be able to recognize & identify their own emotions & the effect of others
- Recognition & acknowledgement of the stress of termination should take precedence over therapeutic goals
- Providing predictability & continuity is important
- Work with caregivers & provide suggestions about possible effects of parting & suggestions of how to prepare & inform the child

Termination with Adults with learning disabilities:
- Realistic aims, goals, & outcomes
- Prioritizing the quality of the client therapist relationship & the impact that this will have on the therapeutic ending
- Considering how to manage, & meaningfully communicate the ending process to clients whose cognitive ability is severely impaired
- Using inevitable breaks in ongoing therapy to help clients build the internal experience of not having therapy
- The use of clinical supervision
- Understanding the need to work within the Learning Disability context

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