Bilingual Music & Therapy

好榮幸今次可以邀請到由香港嚟墨爾本嘅 Sunny Wong，尋晚帶領我哋一班廣東話治療師一齊玩 廣東話治療性歌曲創作！🎶

一班講廣東話嘅 RMT、MTS 同 OT 聚埋一齊，學習、討論同實踐一啲非常 hands-on 嘅廣東話歌曲創作技巧。大家都學到好多，已經急不及待想將呢啲技巧帶返去自己嘅治療 session，應用喺唔同需要嘅服務使用者身上。💛

好多謝 Sunny 同我哋分享你嘅知識同經驗，亦好多謝每一位參加嘅朋友！真係一個好開心、好充實嘅星期六晚上——當然仲包括之後一齊食廣東嘅晚餐啦！😆🥢

Stay tuned！我哋希望之後可以繼續搞多啲 廣東話歌曲創作同專業支援活動，等一班廣東話治療師可以繼續一齊學、一齊交流，用嚟支援墨爾本嘅多元文化社群！🎵

Such a privilege to have Sunny Wong visiting Melbourne from Hong Kong and leading our Cantonese therapeutic songwriting group yesterday! 🎶

A group of Cantonese-speaking RMTs, MTSs and OTs came together to learn, discuss, and practise some really hands-on Cantonese songwriting skills. We’re all feeling inspired and ready to bring these ideas into our therapy sessions to support clients with different needs. 💛

Thank you, Sunny, for sharing your knowledge and experience with us, and thank you to everyone who joined! It was such a wonderful Saturday evening — including, of course, the Cantonese dinner afterwards! 😆🥢

Stay tuned! We’re hoping to organise more Cantonese songwriting and professional support activities soon. 🎵

💡Meet our team
Welcome our new Registered Music Therapist, Joey Cho! 🎉
Joey has experience supporting people across the lifespan in clinical, community, special education, and aged care settings. Originally from Hong Kong and now based in Melbourne, she is passionate about making music therapy accessible and meaningful for people of all abilities.
Joey is a native Cantonese speaker and is fluent in English and Mandarin.
Joey has immediate availability! Speak to us if you or your child would benefit from music therapy support.
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💡认识我们的团队
欢迎我们的新注册音乐治疗师 Joey Cho！🎉
Joey 拥有丰富的临床及社区经验，曾于特殊教育、长者服务及不同医疗机构提供音乐治疗服务，支持不同年龄及能力人士。她来自香港，现居墨尔本，致力于让不同能力的人都能透过音乐获得支持与成长。
Joey 的母语为广东话，并能流利使用英语及普通话。
Joey 现正接受新个案！如果您或您的孩子需要音乐治疗服务，欢迎联系我们！

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👩🏻 Joey is a Registered Music Therapist (RMT) with the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA). She holds a Master of Music Therapy from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), majoring in Classical Piano.

🏫 Joey has experience across clinical and community settings, supporting people across the lifespan in palliative care, special education, aged care, and with neurodivergent individuals and people with intellectual disabilities. Before moving to Australia, she worked as a Music Therapy Assistant in Hong Kong.

❤️‍🔥 Joey is passionate about making music therapy accessible to people of all abilities. She adopts a person-centred, strengths-based approach, believing music can foster connection, wellbeing, and inclusion.

🎶 Alongside her clinical work, Joey is an experienced pianist, singer, and choir musician. Her primary instrument is 🎹 piano, and she also plays 🎸 guitar and enjoys singing 🎵.

🗣️ Joey is a native Cantonese speaker and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

🎭 Outside work, Joey enjoys playing keyboard in a band, teaching piano, reading, photography, serving at church, and studying theology.

#墨爾本華人音樂及治療坊 #雙語音樂治療師

Farewell, Yvonne ❤️

Tonight, together with other Cantonese RMT, we gathered to farewell Yvonne as she prepares for her next chapter beyond Australia.

Yvonne has been an irreplaceable member of Bilingual Music & Therapy over the past three years. Bringing with her a wealth of clinical experience from mainland China, she has always worked with professionalism, and genuine care. It has been such a privilege and honour to have her on our team.

The bilingual community, and the many clients and families whose lives you’ve touched, will truly miss you.

While it’s hard to say goodbye, we’re also so excited for what’s ahead. Wishing you every happiness and success in this new chapter of life. Thank you for everything you’ve contributed—we’ll miss you dearly. ❤️

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再見，Yvonne ❤️

今晚，我哋一班講廣東話嘅註冊音樂治療師聚埋一齊，為即將離開澳洲、展開人生新一頁嘅 Yvonne 餞行。

過去三年，Yvonne 一直都係 Bilingual Music & Therapy 團隊不可或缺嘅一員。佢帶住喺中國內地累積嘅豐富臨床經驗加入我哋團隊，一直以專業、謙卑同真誠嘅態度服務每一位個案同家庭。能夠同你並肩同行，係我哋團隊嘅榮幸。

你對雙語社群，以及每一位你曾經陪伴同行嘅個案同家庭，都留下咗深刻而珍貴嘅影響。我相信大家都一定會好掛住你。

雖然唔捨得同你道別，但我哋更加為你即將展開嘅人生新篇章感到高興。衷心祝福你前程似錦，一切順利，繼續用你嘅專業同溫暖祝福更多人。

Thank you, Yvonne. 我哋會好掛住你！❤️

衷心感謝 Sunny Wong 今晚為我哋一班廣東話臨床工作者，分享有關 廣東話治療性歌曲創作（Cantonese Therapeutic Songwriting） 嘅研究同臨床經驗。今次分享亦係我哋每月一次 雙語註冊音樂治療師（Bilingual RMT）同儕督導小組 嘅一部分。

「好高興可以同大家分享我嘅研究同臨床實踐經驗，希望今次分享可以開啟更多關於廣東話，以及廣東話治療性歌曲創作獨特性嘅討論。」
—— Sunny Wong

廣東話係一種非常獨特、豐富，而且充滿表達力嘅語言。我哋亦知道，能夠用案主嘅母語去幫助佢哋溝通、表達自己，以及整理生命經歷，喺臨床上可以帶嚟非常深遠嘅治療效益。
正如 Sunny 所講，今晚只係一個開始。

我哋希望今次工作坊可以支持已經喺臨床工作中運用廣東話治療性歌曲創作嘅治療師，鼓勵一直有興趣但未開始嘗試嘅同工踏出第一步，亦希望啟發更多治療師探索呢項極具價值嘅臨床技巧。
如果大家對廣東話治療性歌曲創作喺臨床或治療工作上有任何問題，歡迎直接聯絡 Sunny，一齊交流討論！

期待未來有更多關於廣東話嘅交流、合作，同埋創作更多屬於我哋嘅治療性歌曲。🎵❤️

A heartfelt thank you to Sunny Wong for generously sharing his expertise with a group of Cantonese-speaking clinicians tonight on Cantonese Therapeutic Songwriting as part of our monthly Bilingual RMT Peer Supervision Group.

”So glad to share my research and practice insights with you all. I hope it starts more conversations about the uniqueness of Cantonese and Cantonese therapeutic songwriting in our profession.“
— Sunny Wong

Cantonese is a unique, rich and expressive language. We also know that supporting clients to communicate, express themselves, and process their experiences in their mother tongue can have profound clinical benefits.
As Sunny said, this is only the beginning.

We hope tonight‘s workshop will support clinicians who are already incorporating Cantonese therapeutic songwriting into their practice, encourage those who have been hesitant to give it a try, and inspire even more therapists to explore this valuable clinical skill.

If you have any questions about Cantonese therapeutic songwriting in a clinical or therapeutic context, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Sunny.
Here‘s to many more conversations, collaborations, and songs in Cantonese. 🎵❤️