Hayley Antipas

Hayley is one of Perth’s leading Registered Music Therapists. She is also a qualified Neurologic Music Therapist and the Managing Director of Attuned Health. Hayley is passionate about using music to enhance wellbeing and functioning, in particular to improve relationships and quality of life. Underpinning her music therapy practice, she believes that music is a safe means of expressing yourself, feeling, communicating and connecting. She understands that a person’s music tells their story and is part of their unique identity.
Hayley is currently completing a PhD with the University of Melbourne exploring the impact of a music therapy sill sharing technology to enhance the aged care workforce and support people to live well with dementia in residential aged care settings.

Hayley has experience working in palliative care, in community, residential aged care and hospice settings including working with brain injury rehabilitation, mental health, adult disability, aged care services. She has designed, lead & delivered one of Western Australia’s largest aged care music and wellbeing programs.

Hayley has a keen interest in music therapy skill-sharing so other healthcare professionals can leverage the power of music to improve their care and clinical outcomes. She has trained hundreds of allied health professionals, nurses and professional carers to support them embed music into care. Hayley has presented this skill sharing approach to embedding music into dementia care along with her research at national and international conferences and is a leader in the field.