Healing Beats acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, and pays respect to their spiritual relationship with Country. We extend that respect to all First Nations people across Australia. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
ContinueRhythm, story, and image reach what words cannot.
Healing Beats grew out of two things: a long practice working alongside people who carry deep cultures of healing, communal knowledge, and survival, and a creative life rooted in sensing and understanding the world through African communal knowledge, drumming, and dance, deepened by over a decade living and learning alongside communities in Central Australia.
Ahmed Ibrahim is a support coordinator, psychosocial recovery coach, and multidisciplinary artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. He holds a Diploma in Creative Therapy from Charles Darwin University, where his practice was shaped by music and art as modalities for healing and connection.
With over a decade working alongside people with complex disabilities, including those living with psychosocial disability, acquired brain injury, and intersecting forms of disadvantage, his work is grounded in advocacy and relational practice.
His background in drumming, visual storytelling, photography, and creative practice shapes how he works, not as a technique, but as a way of being present with the people he supports.
Working with you to understand your NDIS plan, connect with the right providers, and build a support network around your goals. Practical, consistent, and participant-led.
Recovery-oriented support for people living with psychosocial disability. Focused on building routines, confidence, and self-direction at a pace that is sustainable and led by the participant.
An integrated approach drawing on drumming, visual storytelling, photography, and arts-based methods as tools for recovery and self-expression. The drum is a clinical tool. Not a prop.