KAYLA CONNICK

Kayla Connick is a board-certified music therapist and songwriter living in Pensacola as a transplant from Las Vegas. Kayla has experience working with trauma informed care, neurodiverse individuals with different abilities, at-risk youth, residents within memory care units with varying degrees of dementia, and within special school districts and serves the Florida panhandle as the owner of Making Waves Music Therapy. Kayla believes empathy is the driving force behind a beneficial therapeutic relationship and that music therapy focuses on the whole person’s strengths and unique needs with music as the medium. Kayla is a strong advocate for disability rights, survivors of trauma, and mental health awareness and accessibility to therapy services. In her own time, Kayla is a songwriter and can personally and professionally speak to the powerful therapeutic effect of music and songwriting.

As a songwriter under the moniker ‘kay conn’, Kayla brings out her most inner experiences and past woven into moody, at times brooding, instrumentals and flavorful chords with unexpected twists and turns. The single “25 Of” by kay conn is available on all streaming platforms.”