Who is Allison?
Education and professional career
Allison Davies creates online resources for parents, educators and support staff and works with schools to deliver professional development around the topics of childhood brain development and the use of music as a regulatory tool. She is an independent liberatory scholar currently exploring the gatekeeping and classism of the social construct ‘musical vs non musical’.
Allison holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching (University of New England, 2003), a Master of Music Therapy (University of Queensland, 2005) and Neurologic Music Therapy training (Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, 2016). A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change.
Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.
In 2016 Alli was named a ‘National AMP Tomorrow Maker’ for her contribution to supporting Australian families through her 2 day workshop, Brains = Behaviours, which is now offered as a 10 week eCourse. In 2018 she founded The Brain Care Café, an online membership for adults aiming to self-regulate through therapeutic based music experiences.
Allison is a regular contributor to online network ParentTV, and radio station ‘Vision Australia’.
She lives in the rainforest of Lutruwita (Tasmania), with her husband and 2 children, where she enjoys the beach, the bush and baths.
Allison holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching (University of New England, 2003), a Master of Music Therapy (University of Queensland, 2005) and Neurologic Music Therapy training (Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, 2016). A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change.
Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.
In 2016 Alli was named a ‘National AMP Tomorrow Maker’ for her contribution to supporting Australian families through her 2 day workshop, Brains = Behaviours, which is now offered as a 10 week eCourse. In 2018 she founded The Brain Care Café, an online membership for adults aiming to self-regulate through therapeutic based music experiences.
Allison is a regular contributor to online network ParentTV, and radio station ‘Vision Australia’.
She lives in the rainforest of Lutruwita (Tasmania), with her husband and 2 children, where she enjoys the beach, the bush and baths.
Alli holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching (University of New England, 2003), a Master of Music Therapy (University of Queensland, 2005) and Neurologic Music Therapy training (Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, 2016).
Formally registered with the Australian Music Therapy Association and World Federation of Music Therapy, she has worked in private practice since 2007 across the areas of early childhood, adolescent mental health, youth justice, neuro-rehabilitation and aged, dementia and palliative care.
Allison is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours regulation over intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.
In 2016 Allison was named a ‘National AMP Tomorrow Maker’ for her contribution to supporting Australian families through her two day workshop, Brains = Behaviours, which is now offered as a 10 week eCourse. In 2018 she created The Brain Care Café, an online membership for adults aiming to self-regulate through therapeutic music experiences.
Allison is a regular contributor to online networks ParentTV and radio station ‘Vision Australia’.
She lives in the rainforest of regional Tasmania, with her husband and two children, where she enjoys the beach, the bush and baths.
Formally registered with the Australian Music Therapy Association and World Federation of Music Therapy, she has worked in private practice since 2007 across the areas of early childhood, adolescent mental health, youth justice, neuro-rehabilitation and aged, dementia and palliative care.
Allison is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours regulation over intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.
In 2016 Allison was named a ‘National AMP Tomorrow Maker’ for her contribution to supporting Australian families through her two day workshop, Brains = Behaviours, which is now offered as a 10 week eCourse. In 2018 she created The Brain Care Café, an online membership for adults aiming to self-regulate through therapeutic music experiences.
Allison is a regular contributor to online networks ParentTV and radio station ‘Vision Australia’.
She lives in the rainforest of regional Tasmania, with her husband and two children, where she enjoys the beach, the bush and baths.