Our Team

Trish Dearn RMT

MMus (Res), Grad Dip M.Thrp, BMus.

Trish is a senior Music Therapist with 20 years of experience working with families and children and has considerable experience working with autistic children, children with SPD and ADHDers. In addition to individual and group therapy, Trish also provides clinical supervision for music therapists.

Trish draws from a rich knowledge base that includes neurobiological and trauma informed approaches, neuro-behavioural frameworks, developmental theory, attachment theory and relational frameworks in psychodynamic music therapy. Trish has a special interest in anxiety and the impact of this on emotional regulation in neurodiverse children, particularly in social and education settings.

Trish has presented her work in music therapy at national and international conferences. She is a sought-after speaker for early education/intervention and for health organisations to share her knowledge about how to use music effectively and therapeutically in early developmental services and to support integration of all children into mainstream settings.

Trish has authored several peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters regarding neuro developmental music therapy for infants and young children. She has created hundreds of songs for families, and has created her own series of Therapy Song CDs, ‘Little Songs, Big Ideas’, written in collaboration with some of Melbourne’s most experienced speech pathologists and music therapists.

Trish is passionate about health arts and understands at a deep level the power of the arts to support health, wellbeing and learning. She is a health arts author and has written 10 therapeutic children’s books for children with cancer in collaboration with Dr Maria McCarthy, published in 2014. Her latest book The Beaded Journey being released in London in July 2023, was written to support families in current cancer treatment. Her series The Together Stories is due for re-release 2nd Edition in Dec 2023.She is currently working on the next book in the series supporting neurodiverse children undergoing cancer treatment.

Trish has worked internationally as a professional musician, songwriter, and vocal psychotherapist collaborating with different arts organisations in both music and writing projects.

Trish understands the importance of a team approach and works in partnership with parents, grandparents, carers, educators and the whole team surrounding the child to help them flourish.

Trish is a fluent French speaker.

Georgia Olymbios

App Sci ( speech pathology), MSPA, CPSP

Georgia is a senior clinician who is a Certified Practising member of Speech Pathology Australia. She has over 30 years of clinical experience working in community health, disability, community outreach and early intervention before moving into private practice.

Georgia has worked closely with multi-disciplinary allied health teams to support families across Melbourne.

In addition to individual and group therapy. Georgia is available for multidisciplinary diagnostic autism assessments and speech and language assessments. Georgia currently provides supervision for early career speech pathologists.

She has a passion for the arts, in particular drama, and has several diplomas in drama and public speaking. She has a special interest in the areas of Autism, ADHD, PDA and supporting children in their social communication and self-advocacy in peer settings.

Georgia’s approach to therapy is practical, holistic and evidence-based. She believes that children learn best when they are enjoying themselves and feel safe and connected.

She uses the child’s motivations and strengths to help them feel comfortable and to engage their interest.

Georgia consults regularly with childcare, kinder/preschools, primary schools and Early Intervention services. Georgia also conducts parent-training programs that promote children’s early language and communication skills. She has presented at conferences and is a sought-after speaker for professional development in school and kinder settings on the topics of inclusion, how the environment can support the child and supporting neurodiverse children to use their communication with peers in the playground.

Georgia is passionate about children’s literature and her first book “Where is my swing?” will be available by the end of 2023. This book is a therapeutic resource designed to support children in ways of thinking about and coping with change.

Georgia speaks Greek fluently.