11/19/2025
Our team grew from 5 to 9 in 2025 — and as I write that, I can feel the gratitude well up in my chest. What a wild, beautiful thing it is to build something alongside people who care this deeply.
At Empower, we hold two arms of this work: our clinic and our facility partnerships. Together, our full-time and part-time clinicians bring music therapy to as many people and places as we can reach. Over the last 5 years, that reach has stretched across Tennessee and even into the Southeast — one relationship, one song, one session at a time.
Music therapy is an incredibly powerful modality, and I believe with my whole heart that it deserves to exist in more rooms, more schools, more facilities, more communities. The fact that we get to be part of that growth — this early in our story — gives me so much hope for our field and its future.
As we look toward 2026, I keep coming back to this truth: the most powerful thing about Empower is the people who choose to show up here. This team makes it clear that when we move together, anything is possible.
And the best part?
We’re just getting started.
— Kate Kelly, MT-BC, RYT-200
Practice Owner & Executive Director
