Lene Jeffrey

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About Lene Jeffrey

Lene Jeffrey is a music therapist, academic, supervisor and PhD candidate at Western Sydney University. She conducts her clinical work as a registered music therapist (RMT) with children and young people on the Autism Spectrum, at Giant Steps Sydney. She is a lecturer in voice skills, music & wellbeing applications, music therapy practice and research in the Master of Creative Music Therapy program at Western Sydney University. Lene has presented papers and workshops on clinical work and research at a range of national and international conferences, sharing her knowledge on autism specific interventions, cultural aspects of music therapy practice and the use of music and meditation for mental health, including as guest speaker for GennerationNext, a youth mental health initiative. She is the recipient of the ‘Denise Grocke Award’ for excellence 2012. Her interest in Voicework and meditation for promoting wellbeing is a theme in her current Phd research project.