Central Ohio Music Therapy Team

Jessica has been a Board-Certified Music Therapist since July of 2012 and has been working with Central Ohio Music Therapy since November of 2012. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in music therapy, with a minor in psychology, from Baldwin-Wallace College. She completed her music therapy internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Stephanie H. Morris, MM, MT-BC and Neurologic Music Therapy Fellow started working for COMT in November of 2012 while working to complete her Masters of Music in Music Therapy at Ohio University, finishing in August 2014. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. in 1982. She is married to Matthew B. Morris, Instructor of Bassoon and Theory at Ohio University and is the mother of two boys, Blane and Thomas (Kate, spouse). 

Mark always knew as a young kid that music was going to be his career when he grew up. There was no doubt that from the second he could talk that he would be involved with music somehow some way. It wasn’t until middle school when he discovered his singing voice and as soon as that happened it was non-stop music, all day, every day for the rest of his high school life. He began his college career soon after and immediately got involved in the local music scene here in Columbus by starting as a solo performer. Strapping his acoustic guitar to his back and singing his heart out wherever he could get the opportunity, Mark hit the ground running. It took about 6 months for opportunity to start knocking. He had been in several bands that just didn’t really fit his vocal style, so he stuck to the solo life until the right thing came along. He was offered an opportunity to audition for an extremely popular local band called Mescalito, they were a 13-piece band that specialized in Funk and Soul, a genre Mark had been drawn to as a kid and he couldn’t wait to get to that audition. They soon announced him as the new lead singer.