Allison Davies has been a registered music therapist since 2005 and has run a private music practice in Tasmania since 2007.
In 2016, she trained with the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy and developed my workshop Brains = Behaviours as a way of teaching parent, carers and teachers that their child’s behaviours are entirely dependent on how their brain is coping. This workshop has since won the AMP Tomorrow Maker’s Award and is now available as a 10-week eCourse.
As a music therapist, Allison understands the potential for music therapy to improve general brain functioning and over time has become less passionate about the 1:1 therapy model. Her passion now lies with educating the caregivers about how they can implement so many of the strategies that she has been using in her therapy sessions.
Allison understands what it is like to live with Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder having been diagnosed with it herself. Allison experiences meltdowns, sensory overload, emotional dis-regulation, hyperactivity etc herself. This fuels her desire to give clarity around what it feels like when the brain requires as much support as it can get.
Allison’s aim is to start a movement, whereby we take the focus off behaviour management and replace it with brain care – supporting our children’s brains to function at their best so that detrimental behaviours disappear of their own accord.