Introducing Music Therapy at the Mass General Brigham
Brigham and Women’s Hospital NICU and Growth and Development Unit
We are delighted to announce a new partnership between Mass General Brigham and Roman Music Therapy Services.
Introducing Roman Music Therapy Services
Roman Music Therapy Services’ Board-Certified Music Therapists use music to transform 
lives. Working with children and adults of all ages, we use music to uncover an individual’s potential, creating new connections, providing successful interactions and offering meaningful opportunities for growth.
As the premier independent music therapy agency in Massachusetts, Roman Music Therapy Services has set the standard nationally for community-based and contractual music therapy services. Since our founding in 2006, we have improved the lives of infants, toddlers, children, adults and seniors through goal-driven, meaningful music therapy services.
Our team is committed to three main tenets in our work:
- We are grounded in a human-centered approach to music therapy that requires us to thoughtfully adapt our responses and music interventions to the dynamic needs of the individual.
- As community music therapists, we focus on the two-way connections between individuals and communities in all that we do to help build bridges and social capital.
- Music therapy serves our communities best with a continuum of options from clinical, prescribed services in the hospital and educational settings to supportive services in the community.
Introducing Olivia Todd, MT-BC
Olivia is a board-certified music therapist who graduated with her B.M. In Music Therapy from Nazareth University in 2022. She completed her clinical internship at the VA Augusta Healthcare System in Augusta Georgia, working with individuals with various mental illnesses, chronic pain, and dementia. Olivia received her board certification in August 2023.
Olivia works within a wide range of settings at Roman Music Therapy Services including medical and educational settings, and our music therapy center in Wakefield. Olivia has received training and support from experts in the field who specialize in utilizing music to support development, health, and wellness for premature infants. Olivia’s calm and supportive nature fosters a safe space for patients and families to grow and connect. She is privileged to continue to share the power of music therapy with the patients, families, and staff at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Introducing Daniel DeLucia, MT-BC
Daniel DeLucia (he/him) graduated with his master’s degree in music therapy from Molloy College in 2022. As a clinician, Daniel has worked with children and adults with intellectual disabilities, children and adolescents experiencing bereavement, older adults within neurologic rehabilitation and has worked virtually, providing music therapy services via Zoom.
Daniel is currently a music therapist on the team at Roman Music Therapy Services in Wakefield, MA. He provides services in schools and communities around the Boston area and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Mass General Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Daniel’s clinical interests include music therapy research, music therapy in the medical setting, music therapy with individuals with neurological disorders, and clinical improvisation. Daniel believes that the essence of music therapy is fostering authentic and purposeful relationships through music and is pleased to bring that notion to the families and their infants in the NICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
How Music Therapy Can Help Your Infant
Through live and recorded music experiences, the music therapy interventions will support a variety of needs for the infants, including:
Increasing tolerance for environmental stimuli through organized sounds and rhythms in the NICU environment utilizing research-based music therapy protocols such as Multimodal Neurological Enhancement
- Providing age and developmentally appropriate sensory, auditory and neurodevelopmental stimulation
- Enhancing interactions
- Promoting skills
- Improving coordination
- Promoting transition to feeding
- Decreasing stress response of infants, particularly during and after stressful interventions and procedures, helping infants to regulate through pacification
- Stabilizing behavioral states
- Improving sleep
- Supporting regulation
How Music Therapy Can Support You!
The music therapist is also able to work with parents in the hospital or remotely, to support the family-integrated developmental care model. We can work with you to:
- Enhance bonding and communication with your infant from the very start
- Understand how live and recorded music can support self-regulation, feeding skills and early childhood development
- Provide education around responding to infant cues and introducing additional stimulation when your baby is ready
- Create meaningful recordings of parents singing to their babies for use when they are not in the hospital