Welcome!

Discovery Music Therapy provides individual and group music therapy services in Plymouth County and surrounding towns on the South Shore and Southeastern areas of Massachusetts. Services can be provided either in-person (following CDC safety protocols) or via telehealth.

What Is Music Therapy?

Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. (American Music Therapy Association, 2010)

Music therapy is a systematic process of intervention wherein the therapist helps the client to promote health, using music experiences and the relationships that develop through them as dynamic forces of change. (Bruscia, 1998)

For more information about music therapy:

American Music Therapy Association – professional organization for music therapists in the United States.

Certification Board for Music Therapists – certifying board for music therapy awarding the Music Therapist – Board Certified (MT-BC) credential.

About Discovery Music Therapy

The mission of Discovery Music Therapy is to provide space for clients to feel empowered, and find connection and meaning through music.

The word “discover” was chosen very purposefully for our name, and you may have noticed the symbol in our logo showing a box slowly opening and transforming into a music note. Participating in therapy can uncover knowledge or insights or possibilities that might have previously been unknown. Sharing music can deepen these connections and provide additional avenues for therapeutic growth.

Discovery: the action or process of discovering or being discovered; a person or thing discovered.
Discover: find (someone or something unexpectedly or in the course of a search; become aware of (a fact or situation).

We view clients as equal partners in the therapeutic process. Services are individualized to each client, putting that client’s goals for therapy first, and emphasizing their strengths and resources.

About Kari O’Briant, MMT, MT-BC – Owner and Music Therapist

Kari has been practicing as a board certified music therapist (MT-BC) for over 10 years. She received her Master of Music Therapy from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and her Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy from Radford University in Radford, VA. 

Before starting Discovery Music Therapy in 2021, Kari worked as a music therapist at a nonprofit community music school and at a private music therapy agency. She has experience working with clients across the lifespan, and in a variety of contexts including private homes, schools, community-based programs, family-centered care, assisted living/memory care, and more. Kari also has served as a music therapy program coordinator, a supervisor for music therapy practicum students and interns, and currently teaches the Introduction to Music Therapy course at Bridgewater State University.

Originally from the mountains of southwestern Virginia, Kari moved to Massachusetts’ south shore in 2010.