Katey Lopez

Board Certified Music Therapist

Katey has been a Board-Certified Music Therapist since 2021. Katey is passionate about working with children and has been from a young age volunteering her time at her church’s daycare and children’s church, babysitting for family friends during middle and high school and later working as a nanny during the summer during her undergrad and graduate school years. During her internship, Katey continued working with children in several different settings including home health, early childhood centers, and private and public schools. In addition to working with children, she has experience providing intergeneration and specialized group music therapy in hospice and memory care settings, group music therapy in an inpatient mental health setting, and group therapy in an adult day facility.

Her journey to becoming a Music Therapist started when she went to college at Southern Utah University where her advisor helped her discover Music Therapy. In lieu of transferring, she completed my bachelor’s degree in piano performance and planned to get her master’s degree in music therapy. She then went to Colorado State University where she received training within the neurologic music therapy approach. After graduating she spent a year working in home help providing both individual and group services to the Greater Houston community.

As a therapist, Katey enjoys providing her learners with unique musical activities designed to facilitate and support each learner to achieve their goals. She believes that music is a great way for learners to connect with others, work on social skills, speech and language, attention, and even academics. Katey recently received her Neurologic Music Therapy® certification and has been using new techniques to support her learners at Monarch. In her free time Katey can often be found crafting and watching tv and movies with her dog Freddy. Her favorite singer is Taylor Swift, and she enjoys going to concerts with her friends and family.