Sil Jin (Registered Music Therapist)

What is Music Therapy?

I see music as a process (verb) not an object (noun). Christopher Small in his book Music, Society, Education (1977) described:

The act of musicking establishes in the place where it is happening a set of relationships (…) between person and person, between individual and society, between humanity and society, between humanity and the natural world and even perhaps the supernatural world.

It is to partake in a relationship with a music therapist who is professionally trained to support you and/or your loved one in your relationship with music, relationship with the other and relationship with your deepest self by understanding and utilising the inherently therapeutic properties of music the human race has been practicing for thousands of years.

We create moments of singing together, playing instruments, writing songs, trying new ways to musick, finding the highs and lows of our voice, seeing “you and I” and meeting in pieces we share, inquiring the symbolics we find in music to make sense of ourselves and the world, finding solace and peace in beauty - and wait in silence but knowingly, until these moments become strength and flexibility we need to live in this mad world!

Areas of expertise and approach

• Music Psychotherapy (existential therapy, Jungian)

• Music Technology (incorporating software/hardware(s), apps, video games in therapy)

• Therapeutic Music Lessons (piano, voice, guitar, ukulele)

• Other areas of interest: performance anxiety, spirituality, Death and Dying - palliative care

Qualification

• Master of Music Therapy from University of Melbourne

• Bachelor of Music (Performance) from Sydney Conservatorium of Music

 Affiliation

• Professional Member of AMTA (Australian Music Therapy Association) since 2016