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Kimberley Wade

  • Neurologic Music Therapist
  • Consultations
  • Individual rehabilitation and long term rehabilitation services.
  • Song leader at Cantabrainers Choirs Trust.
  • Workshops, presentations and In-services.
  • Business Supervisor
Otautahi/Christchurch

I have a huge drive to inspire people to use music to assist them finding their voice. I have a huge belief that everyone has a valuable contribution to offer and that music has a unique way of reaching and connection with people. I love to use music to encourage communication, to assist people to express themselves and reach their full potential. I set up Southern Music Therapy to provide a supportive space where our music therapists can be dynamic, sustain creativity and develop as a team. We aim to provide quality client centred collaborative and sustainable music therapy. This requires huge networks, quality relationships and  a lot of energy, but believe that working with meaningful human connection – anything is possible.

I am passionate about growing the profession of music therapy, and new projects that continue to push boundaries to support people that need us.

Kiwibank New Zealand Award: Canterbury Local Hero Medalist 2021

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kim@smt.nz

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“It’s been very good, I can get my breathing better from singing and I can go louder if I want and I can go longer. I can sing, I don’t need to gulp to get air in now.”

Langlois Hunt, E. (2020). Developing a sense of belonging: A case study on the use of peer inclusion to support a child with selective mutism. New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy 18, 141-158
Hunt, E. J. (2019). What strategies did I use, as a music therapy student, to promote child-led cooperative play in an inclusive education setting? (Unpublished thesis). Victoria University of Wellington. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8246

Collaborative Article: Shaw, C. et al. (2022). Lived Experience Perspectives on Ableism Within and Beyond Music Therapists’ Professional Identities, Music Therapy Perspectives 40(2), 143–151. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miac001
Collaborative Article: Talmage, A. et al. (2020). Music Therapy in a time of pandemic: Experiences of musicking, telehealth, and resource-oriented practice during COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy 18, 7-66

The Little Musical Caravan

 

NZ Registered Music Therapist Master of Music Therapy, NZSM, Victoria University of Wellington, 2019 Certificate in Teaching, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), UK, 2005 PhD in Theology, University of Birmingham, UK, 2000 Certificate in Counselling Skills, Counselling and Psychotherapy Awarding Body (CPCAB), UK, 1999 BA (Hons) in Theology, University of Birmingham, UK, 1995