Kerry Devlin

Kerry Devlin, MMT, MT-BC (she/her) is senior music therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine. She has worked as a music therapist in a wide range of clinical contexts, and is currently a Ph.D. researcher in the Doctoral Programme in Music Therapy at Aalborg University. As a disabled clinician, Kerry understands the unique experience of moving through the health care system as both a patient and a provider. She is passionate about disability justice and affirming the lived experience of therapy participants through co-constructed music experiences.

Kerry is adjunct faculty at Shenandoah University, where she teaches courses centered on clinical music therapy practice and telehealth approaches in music therapy. Her research has been published in Music Therapy Perspectives, Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, and The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and she has strong research interests in disability affirmative music therapy clinical practice, music therapy pedagogy, and valuing lived experience as expertise.