About Lauren
Lauren studied music therapy at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. This university education consisted of coursework, supervised clinical fieldwork placements and academic study in the areas of music therapy research, music and psychology.
She graduated with honours in a Bachelor of Music Therapy degree, with a minor in psychology. Lauren studied flute as her main instrument privately and within ensembles throughout her degree in addition to studying voice, piano and guitar throughout her degree.
Lauren then moved to Australia where she met her husband, and now practices music therapy around beautiful far northern Queensland in the Cairns and surrounding areas.
She graduated with honours in a Bachelor of Music Therapy degree, with a minor in psychology. Lauren studied flute as her main instrument privately and within ensembles throughout her degree in addition to studying voice, piano and guitar throughout her degree.
Lauren then moved to Australia where she met her husband, and now practices music therapy around beautiful far northern Queensland in the Cairns and surrounding areas.
Accreditation
To become an accredited music therapist, Lauren completed a Bachelor degree, along with a 1000-hour supervised clinical internship. As an intern, you are to develop competency in your knowledge and skills in music therapy and Lauren did so with three different populations; long term care, pain management with oncology and children with special needs. By the end of the internship the intern is to take full responsibilities as a professional music therapist and submit a written portfolio of their philosophy, experiences, and a case study. The Accreditation review board must grant the intern successful and the title, MTA [music therapist accredited].
“An RMT [registered music therapist] is a music therapist who has completed an [Australian] accredited tertiary course in music therapy and who then maintains their skills through continuing professional development as approved by AMTA." Australian Music Therapy Association (2016) |
Memberships & Qualifications
“Music therapists help people to make many types of changes. Music therapy treatment may lead to changes in behaviour, changes in self-awareness, changes in skills (such as social, leisure, motor) changes in self-management (such as stress, pain, emotions), or changes in understanding the world in which we live.” (Wheeler, 2005) |