Attuned practice training and resources for educators, families, and aged care

grounded in music therapy research & practice

EXPLORE what we offer

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Tuned In Music Therapy

NDIS-funded programs

Connection comes first. That means taking time to understand how you communicate, what matters to you, and where your strengths lie. Then, working collaboratively with you and those around you; family, caregivers, schools, and workplaces, we ensure music becomes part of everyday life in a way that genuinely supports your health and wellbeing. We support children and adults with disabilities and offer online and in-person programs. People tell us our programs support their communication, self-expression, emotional wellbeing, cognition, and creativity. Get in touch to find the right program for you or someone in your care.

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Parent & caregiver supports

1:1 coaching | Group workshops

We help bring therapy into everyday life.
Through practical coaching and simple techniques, we’ll guide you in using rhythm, signature songs, and responsive play to support your child’s communication, routines, and emotional regulation. You’ll learn how to use affect, intonation, and DIR/Floortime-informed strategies to build connection, capture attention, and strengthen your parent-child relationship.

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Inclusive Practice Workshops

Bespoke program designs

Training & Programs for Music For Health Practitioners
What sets our training apart? It's grounded in our clinical therapeutic work and music for health research. We design tailored, evidence-informed training for educators, community musicians, and NDIS support teams so that you can effectively use music for connection, regulation, communication, and wellbeing. Our music for health programs are practical, inclusive, and grounded in real research and clinical experience.

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Meet Anita

Hello, I'm Anita, founder of Tuned In Connections and Tuned In Music Therapy.

For the past 10 years, I've worked as a music therapist with people where connection before outcomes matters most. With autistic children and young people with disability, in aged care settings where a familiar melody can bring someone back to the present moment, and in schools where the difference between a child feeling included or invisible can shape their learning for the day.

What I kept noticing in therapy rooms, in my research and my own clinical practice is that the moments that change things are rarely just the music, or just the play. They're the small, attuned moments before we’re working on anything else. The moments where we get curious and take a slow look, and share our presence.

That observation, and years of neurodiversity-affirming clinical practice and research into music for health, attunement and connection across the lifespan, led me to develop the A-TUNE framework.

A-TUNE is a set of principles that translates what music therapy, neuroscience, and attachment theory actually show us into something every educator, parent, carer or support worker can use.

Why did I develop it? It was because the question I kept being asked was "How do I do what you do?" Tuned In Connections is my answer. No musical skills required. What you might already do, understood differently and amplified further.

I'm a Registered Music Therapist (Australian Music Therapy Association) and Postdoctoral Researcher at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Everything I share here comes from my experiences as a parent, clinician and researcher.