Kirby is the owner and founder of PlainSong Music Services, LLC, a private music therapy practice in Anderson, Indiana serving central Indiana. She is a Board-Certified Music Therapist specializing in mental health approaches. Kirby holds degrees in music education with an active teaching license from Anderson University, a music therapy equivalency from St. Mary-of-the-Woods, and a MA in Music Therapy from St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Kirby aims to create safe and inclusive spaces for ALL people while advocating for music therapy as an allied health profession.
Kirby realized the need for music therapy in her community and became an accidental entrepreneur in 2016. Kirby has grown her music therapy company from a solo private practice to a diverse and celebrated clinic with a team of 20 and a weekly clientele of over a thousand individuals. Kirby has received numerous awards for leadership including the St. Mary of the Woods Graduate Alumni Leadership Award and Madison County’s Chamber of Commerce’s 20 under 40 in 2024. PlainSong was the recipient of the 2025 FlagShip Enterprise Center Pitch Night and has been the recipient of multiple for profit grants including the National American Express Mainstreet America Grant in 2024.
Kirby’s greatest passions lie in leadership and helping others – whether they are organizations, teams, clients or employees- realize their potential. Kirby is drawn to education and advocacy of the fields of entrepreneurship and music therapy, and she presents across the country about music therapy advocacy with related fields, professionalism, working in private practice, and impacting the lives of others through a “thinking outside of the box” approach.