KIMBERLEY WADE
Registered Music Therapist and Founder of Southern Music Therapy
In 2007 Kimberley completed her Masters in Music Therapy in Wellington. She has worked in a variety of disability settings including special education, aged care, and adult mental health. After gaining some confidence within the profession, Kimberley felt drawn to working clinically with people with neurological conditions. She received further training in Neurologic Music Therapy, vocal psychotherapy as well as continuing courses in music and neuroscience, and communication specific courses.
She has a real drive to inspire people to use music to assist in ‘finding their voice’; encouraging them to communicate, express themselves and reach their potential.
Kimberley works with individuals, small groups and provides consultation in long-term rehabilitation services and the community. She is the song leader for the Cantabrainers choir and provides workshops and in-services promoting and educating caregivers, clients, and professionals about music therapy.
Music Therapy is a growing profession, and Kimberley looks forward to the new projects ahead, continuing to promote music therapy and developing the music therapy practice so that people can access Music Therapy.
Kimberley has a husband and two young children. She enjoys weekends off, camping, hill walks, Zumba, musicals, cafes and having a BBQ with friends.
VICTOR HUGO
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
JENNY LEE
Registered Music Therapist for Southern Music Therapy
Jenny Lee joined the Southern Music Therapy Team in January 2017.
Since young, Jenny has always enjoyed playing the piano and making music.
While studying at Victoria University majoring in music composition, Jenny attended a few national music therapy conferences, as well as doing voluntary work in rest-homes and camp for children with disabilities. She felt drawn to the nature of work in music therapy. In 2007 Jenny completed her Masters in Music Therapy training in Wellington. Since then she has been working as a music therapist, mainly with children and adults with Neuro-disability. She received further training in Neurology Music Therapy, and the FloorTime Approach for children with autism.
Jenny has experiencing working in both New Zealand and Singapore.
She is a talented pianist and has a key interest in improvisation.
She likes working as a team, co-creating programmes with other therapists. She also enjoys working alongside staff and caregivers, sharing ways of using music to create a calming environment and to promote therapeutic relationships.
In her spare time, Jenny enjoys going to cafes, hiking, traveling, and doing voluntary work.
Jenny is an asset to the southern music therapy team.
VICTOR HUGO
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
MAY CLULEE
Registered Music Therapist for Southern Music Therapy
May received her MA in Music Therapy in 1999 from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, and has worked as a music therapist across the lifespan in Singapore and in Auckland, in a wide variety of settings with individuals and groups in education, rest homes, the community and private practice.
May is highly committed to a person-focused, collaborative approach to music therapy that resources and empowers others. She has interests in the fields of autism, dementia and community music therapy and has had opportunities to present her work locally and overseas.
May enjoys working collaboratively with other professionals, and also provides individual clinical supervision to music therapy students and registered music therapists. She has also had a rich and diverse portfolio career which includes roles as a foster parent, teacher aide, piano teacher and library assistant.
VICTOR HUGO
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
LUCY
Music Therapy Student for Southern Music Therapy
Lucy is a Christchurch based Music Therapy student in the last year of her Masters degree. Her thesis focuses on the use of violin in Music Therapy with people who have neurological conditions and intellectual disability. She is very passionate about her work and is excited to be able to bring an instrument she connects with so strongly into Music Therapy, and explore its therapeutic potential. Lucy grew up in Christchurch, practicing violin from a young age. She has spent a lot of time working with children as a nanny as well as a music enrichment and violin teacher, enjoying the energy, curiosity and wonder children possess. Mental health and wellbeing is another passion of Lucy’s and music is a big part of that. Connection, emotional and self-expression are particular areas that Lucy emphasizes in her practice. After studying in Wellington for the past 4 years, completing a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and music, she has moved back to Christchurch to finish her final year of the Masters of Music Therapy programme working on placement at Southern Music Therapy. Lucy has always had a strong passion for music and its ability to reach and heal people and she is extremely excited for her future in this growing profession.
