Common ChordMusic Therapy

Victoria Park · clinic, home and aged care

Music therapy in Victoria Park: ten weeks, one goal, written down.

Registered music therapists for children and adults. The whole term is priced before you ring us.

AMTA-registered music therapists. The first phone chat is free, and the term report is inside every total.

What we offer, and what it costs

Every fee we charge is on this page, including the report at the end of a term and the phone chat that costs nothing.

  • Individual session, in the clinic

    from $95
    30 min $9545 min $14060 min $185

    Children and adults, one therapist, the same time slot each week.

  • Home visit

    +$30 a session

    The same session in your lounge room, anywhere in our home-visit area. The fee covers the drive; the session length does not change.

  • Ten-week term

    from $660

    Five fortnightly 30-minute sessions plus the written report. A weekly term is ten sessions. Both are priced in the planner.

  • Term progress report

    $185

    Written after week 10, in plain English, for you, your GP, school or support coordinator. Charged once a term, and shown before every total.

  • Aged-care group session

    from $240

    A group session in a residential aged-care home’s lounge or activity room. Priced per session, not per resident.

  • First phone chat

    $0

    Fifteen minutes with a therapist, before anyone books anything. Tell us the goal; we tell you honestly what we would suggest.

The term planner

See exactly what a term holds.

Every term ends with a written progress report at week 10. It costs $185 and it is already inside every total below.

Session length
How often
Where

Read it like music: a higher note is a longer session, a rest is a week off, and the double bar is the end of the term.

  • 10 sessions × $140.00$1,400.00
  • Term progress report, after week 10$185.00
  • Term total$1,585
  • Averaged over the ten weeks$158.50 a week

Fortnightly is $885, which is $700 less.

Not sure between weekly and fortnightly? Don’t choose yet. A therapist should hear the goal before anyone suggests a frequency, so the first step is a free 15-minute phone chat.

Start with the free call

How a term works

Four steps. The first one is free, and the last one is a document you keep.

  1. A 15-minute phone chat

    You tell us who the sessions are for and what you are hoping for. We tell you how we would shape a term, or that we are not the right fit.

  2. One goal, in plain words

    In the first session we agree one goal with you and write it down, so everyone in the room knows what the term is for.

  3. Ten weeks, same therapist

    Weekly or fortnightly, the same therapist at the same time slot. Clinic, your home, or the aged-care home’s lounge.

  4. The report after week 10

    What we did each week, what we noticed, and what we suggest next. That can be another term, fewer sessions, or stopping.

What families and coordinators say

“The phone call took about twelve minutes and nobody tried to sell me a term. We went fortnightly because of the budget, and the therapist said that was a perfectly good way to start.”
Parent of a seven-year-old · Kensington
“Mum’s sessions are in the lounge at her aged-care home on Thursday mornings. The therapist brings a guitar and a basket of shakers, and leaves a short note in the staff folder afterwards.”
Daughter of a resident · Carlisle
“I need the full cost before a plan review. The report fee was in the first number they gave me, not an invoice that turned up later.”
Support coordinator · Cannington

Demonstration reviews, written for this demo page. They describe sessions and logistics only.

Where we see people

Our clinic is in Victoria Park. Home visits cover the inner suburbs around it, and we visit residential aged-care homes across the south and east.

Service area map centred on Victoria Park A simplified map, not to scale, showing the Swan and Canning rivers, the Victoria Park clinic, a solid ring for home visits and a dashed ring for residential aged-care visits, with the suburbs we cover labelled. Victoria Park East Victoria Park Lathlain Burswood Kensington Bentley Carlisle Rivervale South Perth Belmont Kewdale Welshpool St James Cannington Wilson Como Manning Perth city

Clinic and home visits

  • Victoria Park
  • East Victoria Park
  • Lathlain
  • Burswood
  • Carlisle
  • Rivervale
  • Kensington
  • Bentley
  • South Perth

Aged-care visits also

  • Belmont
  • Kewdale
  • Welshpool
  • St James
  • Cannington
  • Wilson
  • Como
  • Manning

Questions people ask before they ring

What is a registered music therapist?

In Australia, a registered music therapist (RMT) is registered with the Australian Music Therapy Association. To register, a music therapist completes an AMTA-accredited university course in music therapy, meets AMTA’s professional standards, and keeps up ongoing professional development.

AMTA keeps a public directory of registered music therapists on its website, so you can look a therapist up before you book.

Source: austmta.org.au — About registered music therapists.

Does my child need to be musical?

No. Nobody needs to read music, sing in tune or have had lessons. Sessions use instruments anyone can make a sound on straight away: drums, shakers, a keyboard, a guitar the therapist plays, and voices.

If your child already plays something, bring it along.

Clinic or home visit?

The session is the same length and the same therapist either way. The clinic has more instruments and no drive for us, so it costs less. A home visit adds $30 a session and suits people for whom the trip itself is the hard part.

For residents of an aged-care home, we come to the home.

How does NDIS funding work for music therapy?

The NDIA describes three ways a plan can be managed: self-managed, plan-managed and agency-managed. With plan management, a plan manager pays your providers for you. Which funding a session can come from, and at what rate, depends on your plan and how it is managed.

The NDIA has changed its guidance on music therapy more than once recently, so we don’t print a rule here that may already be out of date. We can tell you how your plan type affects this on the phone. Have your plan handy. The fees on this page are ours.

Source: ndis.gov.au — Guide to your management options.

What is in the term report?

Two or three pages in plain English: the goal as we agreed it in week 1, what we did in each session, what we noticed, and what we suggest next. That might be another term, going fortnightly, or stopping.

No scores and no percentages. It is written so you can hand it to a GP, a school or a support coordinator as it is.

What if we miss a week?

Let us know at least 24 hours before and we move the session to the end of the term, so you still get all of them. The term runs a little longer; the report waits until the last session.

If someone is unwell on the day, ring us anyway. We would rather talk it through than send a bill.

Book the free call, or ask about a term

A therapist rings you back within one working day. Five questions need an answer, there is no booking fee, and nothing is booked until you say so.

How will sessions be paid for?
What would you like first?

Or ring (08) 9000 0473, Monday to Friday.