Danielle Musat is a board certified music therapist, who spent the first three years of her career working as a music therapist in a residential treatment facility for children and teens with behavioral health disorders, offending behaviors, and abuse/neglect issues. Danielle then became the full-time music therapist at the Lorain County Board of Developmental Disabilities, where she spent eight years working with children from 18 months old through older adults.
Danielle has a small private practice where she works with children and adults with all developmental and/or physical disabilities in the areas of communication; increasing self-esteem; socialization; direction-following; and appropriate behavior. Danielle serves varying populations, including, but not limited to: cerebral palsy, quadriplegia, autism, speech delay, fine/gross motor delay, non-verbal individuals, speech delays, individuals with augmentative communication devices.
Danielle works at the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby where she was introduced to the music therapy department at Lake Health. She holds bi-weekly music therapy groups in the Geriatric Psychiatric unit at the Continuing Care Campus in Concord. Danielle completed a three-year study on the effects of music therapy in the Emergency Department at TriPoint Hospital, using music therapy as a means of assisting patients with relaxation, pain management, distraction, and stress-reduction, as well as other objectives. In 2018, she presented the findings of this study at the American Music Therapy Association’s national convention in Dallas, Texas.