Ashley Carroll

Ashley Carroll is a Board-Certified Music Therapist who moved to Virginia Beach in January of 2021. She has been serving the Hampton Roads community since July through her work at Tidewater Music Therapy, LLC and was elected President of the Virginia Music Therapy Association in January of this year.

She completed her Bachelor of Music Therapy degree at Eastern Michigan University in 2010 and her Master if Arts degree in Music Therapy from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in December of 2020.

She has worked in a variety of settings including hospitals, elementary and middle school special education classrooms, early childhood community music groups, community mental health, elder care, memory care and hospice. As a hospice music therapist she witnessed how pervasive isolation is especially among older adults, and she became passionate about being involved in bringing people together using music. She is excited to change roles, leaving clinical work to focus on building relationships with artists and community partners to eliminate the barriers of access to high quality programming to our communities.