Biography

Abby Dodds, MM, LPMT, MT-BC, is a board-certified and licensed professional music therapist serving as Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the Creative Arts Therapy Program in West Liberty Universitys Art Therapy and Counseling Department. She holds a Master of Music in Music Therapy from Ohio University and a Bachelor’s in Music and Psychology from Kent State University.

Abby owns Self and Sound, a private practice offering music psychotherapy services across the greater Ohio Valley region. Her clinical work and research focus on expanding mental healthcare access through creative arts therapies in Ohio and West Virginia. She is a founding member and chairperson of the West Virginia Music Therapy Association and an advanced trainee pursuing fellowship in the Association for Music and Imagery as a practitioner of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music through the Atlantis Institute for Consciousness and Music.

Learn more at selfandsound.com.

Education

MM- Music Therapy, Ohio University
Bachelors Equivalency- Music Therapy, Ohio University
BA- Music and Psychology, Kent State University

Professional Experiences

Licensed Professional Music Therapist (Ohio, LPMT), Board-Certified Music Therapist (United States, MT-BC)

Most Recent Publications and Presentations

Dodds, A. L. (2022). Becoming Aware, Taking Control and Connecting with Self in Reflexive Music Therapy: An Adult Woman’s Journey Toward Therapeutic Change [Masters thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1660172360385196