I call this a Frequency Test, using the licensed Tomatis® Listening Test system, because it looks at something bigger than listening alone: how your whole nervous system receives and uses frequency. For adults, with a licensed Tomatis® Consultant.
Book Your Frequency Test · $150Nothing to prepare, and nothing to get right.
Sound doesn't stop at your ears. It moves through you as vibration, and the body, made mostly of water and connective tissue, is an excellent conductor of it. Every cell in you holds an electrical charge, your nervous system runs on electrical signal, and your heart alone generates the largest electromagnetic field in your body. In a very literal sense, you are a frequency being, receiving and responding to vibration constantly, whether you're consciously aware of it or not.
This is often why people are drawn to sound long before they can explain why. Before language, there was frequency. The nervous system was listening long before the mind learned to interpret what it heard as music, or noise, or safety, or threat.
This isn't just a nice idea. Research on auditory stimulation has found that low-frequency sound can shift the body toward a calmer, more parasympathetic state (see the study), and that pairing specific tones with vagus nerve activity can measurably change how the brain itself processes sound (research here). The Frequency Test looks at exactly this layer: not whether sound reaches you, but how well your own nervous system is actually set up to receive and use it.
I write more about this side of my work in what is neuro-acoustic science.
Many of the people who come to me are dealing with a brain fog that won't lift, anxiety that doesn't respond to willpower alone, or general neurological symptoms no one's been able to fully explain. I can't promise the Frequency Test, or a listening program built from it, will resolve any of that, and it's never a substitute for medical or mental health care. What I can tell you is that how your nervous system processes frequency sits underneath a lot of that experience, and it's a layer almost nobody has actually had looked at.
You wear a specialised headset, respond to a series of short sub-tests, and your own individual frequency profile gets mapped. Then we sit together and go through exactly what it shows.
I can't promise you a specific finding before we start. What I can promise is a real answer about your own nervous system, explained in plain language, not jargon.
How The Frequency Test Works
Everything happens in the one visit: the frequency check itself, then going through what it means for you, together.
A specialised headset transmits sound through both air conduction and bone conduction, while you respond to a series of short sub-tests. This is the assessment itself, and it's straightforward, there's nothing to get right or wrong.
From your results, I map a set of curves specific to you, your individual frequency profile. We go through what it actually shows together, in plain language, not clinical jargon.
If a personalised listening program would genuinely add something for you, I'll explain what that involves. If it wouldn't, I'll say that too. There's no obligation either way, the test stands on its own.
At my practice room in Mudgeeraba, or mobile to your own quiet space
Everything at the technical core of this test rests on the work of Dr Alfred Tomatis, a French ear, nose and throat specialist who spent decades researching the relationship between the ear, listening and the nervous system. His discovery, that hearing and listening are not the same thing, and that the ear is one of the most direct paths into the nervous system we have, is the foundation this entire field is built on. I administer your test using his licensed system, and his work deserves to be named and honoured here.
I write more about listening versus hearing, and what retraining it actually looks like, in the art of listening.
Where I add my own layer is in how I read what your results show. My own background is in neuroscience and psychoacoustics, not only the classic Tomatis benchmarks, and I bring that lens to your profile: not just what it shows about your listening, but what it may be saying about your wider nervous system and your state of consciousness.
This is a genuine distinction. The Frequency Test is administered using Dr Tomatis's licensed system, honoured as his. How I interpret your results, and where I think it can take you from there, is my own, built from years working at the intersection of sound, the nervous system and consciousness.
A big part of the wider Tomatis® program, and one people often don't know about until they've had a Frequency Test, is voice retraining, what the Method calls the Active Phase. You listen to your own voice, singing, reading or talking, fed back to you through the same specialised headset in real time. That feedback loop is how the brain networks linking hearing and speaking actually get practised together, not separately.
Dr Tomatis's own theory centres on ear dominance: the right ear connects more directly to the brain's language centre, so a right-ear lead tends to support cleaner, more coordinated processing between hearing and speech. Where that leadership isn't clearly established, some people experience it as a kind of left-right coherence issue, sound and language feeling slightly out of step with each other. This isn't a diagnosis of any condition, and I can't promise a specific outcome, but where your Frequency Test shows this kind of pattern, voice retraining is one of the tools a personalised listening program can include.
How is this different from the Melillo Method? They're genuinely separate systems, not two versions of the same idea. The Tomatis® Method works through the ear specifically, passive listening and, where relevant, active voice retraining, aimed at how the ear, brain and voice coordinate. The Melillo Method (also called Brain Balance), developed by Dr Robert Melillo, is a different program built around a broader concept called Functional Disconnection Syndrome, addressed mostly through movement, sensory and academic exercises rather than an ear-based protocol, and aimed mainly at children. I'm not affiliated with the Melillo Method and don't offer it. If you've come across both names while researching, it's worth knowing they're not interchangeable.
I'm a licensed Tomatis® Consultant, trained and licensed through Tomatis Développement, working exclusively with adults.
The Tomatis® Method is an educational program. It is not a medical treatment, and it does not diagnose, treat or cure any condition. If you're currently under medical or allied health care, please continue to follow that practitioner's advice alongside this work.
This is a complementary wellbeing service, not a Medicare or private-health-insurance item. No rebate applies.
One clear, single price. What a listening program would involve, if one is right for you, is proposed and priced only after your results.
For adults. Frequency check, plus a full walk-through of your results together.
Includes the choice of a 60-Minute Private Sound Healing Session as an optional add on at checkout, $120 instead of its usual $150.
This test and the Tomatis® Method are a complementary wellbeing and educational practice. They are not a substitute for medical or mental health treatment, and do not diagnose, treat or cure any condition, including brain fog, anxiety or any neurological symptom. If you're currently under medical care, please continue to follow your practitioner's advice alongside this work.
Curious what your own nervous system is actually doing with sound?
Book Your Frequency TestA real, mapped answer about how you receive and use sound, with a licensed Tomatis® Consultant. At my practice room in Mudgeeraba, or mobile to your own quiet space.
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