Dr Elly Scrine is a child and youth counsellor, a Registered Music Therapist, and a former lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Elly’s doctoral research examined the role of music to explore gender and power with young people in high school, and how schools in the settler-colonial context function as sites of power and regulation in young people’s lives. As a clinician, Elly has worked with children and young people across a range of community mental health and trauma contexts, and currently sits on the GenWest Children’s Counselling team. Elly has documented their work across a range of peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and they sit on the editorial board for an international Music Therapy journal.