Rebecca gildea, cmhc, mt-bc 

(She/Her)

mental health counselor candidate for licensure Board-Certified Music Therapist
clinical DIRECTOR

Ages I Work With:  Teens, Adults

I’m Passionate About Working With:

  • LGBTQIA2+ teens and adults

  • Trans*, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth/adults

  • People needing support for their mental health

  • People going through life transitions, change, grief/loss

  • Adults and teens interested in using creativity to find their own voice and meaning

  • Adults looking to reconnect with themselves and heal from past traumas

  • Each person has the ability to find healing within themselves.

  • Every person has the right to a safe and supportive environment and deserves a dedicated space to heal and grow

  • We are creative beings connecting to our deepest experiences through art, music, and movement

  • We can use creative processes to identify barriers, develop a healthy self-concept and holistic personal narrative, access inner wisdom, or find patterns made in the past that revisit us in the present. 

  • A clinician is responsible for standing up to injustice in and outside of the clinical space and has a duty to our clients and society as a whole to help move toward equality and justice, personally and politically.

i believe…

  • Use music, art, and movement to validate and process emotions

  • Focus on the body’s wisdom as much as the mind’s

  • Encourage autonomy and self-advocacy 

  • Hold space for every part of the self 

IN MY SESSIONs I LIKE TO:

Rebecca, a white woman with curly shoulder-length hair and bangs, is standing and smiling softly. She is wearing thin-framed circular glasses, a black long-sleeve shirt, and a gray short sleeve sweater.

  • I’m Rebecca Gildea, a queer, feminist advocate and clinical mental health counselor - candidate for licensure and board-certified music therapist. I received my undergraduate education in music and musicology from Marlboro College, earned an equivalency degree in music therapy from Appalachian State University, and a masters in music therapy and clinical mental health counseling through Slippery Rock University.

    You’ll find me hiking in the woods, talking about my pets like children, listening to everything from Dolly Parton to Lizzo, and being guided by the seasons, equinox, and solstices.

  • CMHC: Clinical Mental Health Counselor (Candidate for Licensure)

    MT-BC: Board-Certified Music Therapist

  • I come from a queer, feminist, and social justice perspective, where I center empowerment and autonomy, and help clients to create and move toward their own definition of wellbeing. In session I find it important to address the systemic inequality, structural racism, and discrimination that exists within therapeutic work, in client’s lives, and in the society we all live in.

    As a therapist, I am not the expert, rather a partner in the self-discovery and healing process. Together we decide who should lead, as the therapeutic process is dynamic and changes as we both change. I find it important to acknowledge that we are both complex cultural beings in a network of relationships, and that the intersections of our cultural identities are equally important to the therapeutic process. I tend to use a trauma-informed intermodal approach, utilizing talk therapy frameworks (DBT, CBT, IFS, psychodynamic), resourcing, and creative processes to help clients connect, express, strengthen, communicate, and heal. I can’t wait to work with you!