About Us
Creative Wellbeing Workshops, LLC has offices in Washington, DC and Tucson, AZ.
We travel nationally and internationally providing workshops and training on stress management, happiness, creativity, and well-being. Contact us at 202 352 5225.
The Creative Wellbeing Workshops Team
Rebecca Wilkinson and Gioia Chilton, founders of Creative Wellbeing Workshops. Rebecca and Gioia have been collaborating since the early 90’s with private, government, and non-profit organizations, universities, practitioners, trainers, students, and clients to help them experience more personal and professional wellbeing and a higher quality of life.
They facilitate dynamic and engaging workshops which provide immediate and effective tools for managing stress and increasing wellbeing. This includes their signature Positivity and Wellbeing–How to Be Happier and Bounce Back From Stress; Team Building and Creativity Workshops; Positive Partnerships; and Mandalas for Meditation.
Creative Wellbeing Workshops is also an Approved Continuing Education Provider through the National Board for Certified Counselors (ACEP #6566). They provide continuing education trainings that derive from their mission to help mental health providers sustain their passion for their work: e.g., Positive Ethics; Positive Supervision; Combatting Compassion Fatigue and Increasing Compassion Satisfaction; Ethics of Self-Care; Art Therapy and Mental Illness; Art Therapy in the Hospitality Industry.
Gioia and Rebecca also teach graduate students at the George Washington University Graduate Art Therapy Program blending exciting new research emerging from the field of positive psychology with the life-enriching field of art therapy. They are passionate about supporting and engaging in the ongoing development of therapists.
They are authors of Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice: Integrating Positive Psychology with Art Therapy which suggests a new direction–“Positive Art Therapy”–to combine the complimentary elements of these two fields.
Rebecca Wilkinson, LPC, LCPAT, ATR-BC, ITR-CTT Managing Director
Rebecca is a Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a Licensed, Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist with over thirty years of experience in mental health and in facilitating training and workshops. She is the principle provider for the therapy and coaching arm of CWW, helping clients feel calmer, more creative, more capable, empowered and resilient, and, perhaps most critically, happier and more at peace.
Rebecca is a Certified Trauma Therapist with extensive experience in a range of modalities including CBT, mindfulness practices, expressive techniques, action methods, Jungian depth psychology and psychodynamics approaches, as well as positive psychology. She is certified to provide clinical supervision in the State of Arizona.
Rebecca’s focus has been in helping people in crisis and struggling with high levels of stress to experience a higher quality of life and it is through this work that she has developed an appreciation for the power of the human spirit to prevail even in the darkest moments.
Rebecca is in extended intensive training to become a Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist, an avenue through which many clients with persistent trauma, treatment resistant depression and anxiety, and with a desire to access different parts of their consciousness are finding positive results. She currently works with clients who are interested in integrating psychedelic experiences they are undergone on their own.
Rebecca is also a practicing artist and illustrator of the Coloring Creates Wellbeing: The Desert Mandalas Coloring Book. Her artwork can be seen at www.RebeccaWilkinson.com. Rebecca lives between DC with her mother, twin sister, and nephews and AZ with her husband and cats.
Known for shooting straight from the hip, Rebecca brings sharp focus and wit to presenting. She lives between Arizona with her husband and cats Benzo and Dee Dee, and Washington, DC with her twin sister and nephews. C
Gioia Chilton, PhD, ATR-BC, CSAC Creative Director
Gioia is also a Licensed, Registered, and Board-Certified Art Therapist as well as a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor with over thirty years of experience in mental health and workshop facilitation. She holds licenses as a Clinical Professional Art Therapist (LCPAT) in Maryland and Certified Substance Abuse Counselor (CSAC) in Virginia.
Gioia is part of the Creative Forces Team at Ft. Belvoir helping active military recover from Posttraumatic Syndrome and Traumatic Brain Injury. She has extensive training in Trauma Informed Practices, Psychodrama and Action Methods, positive psychology, psychodynamic theory, and the expressive therapies.
Gioia was a Provost Fellow at Drexel University’s Creative Arts Therapies Ph.D. Program where she completed award-winning original research on the expression of positive emotions in art. She has taught at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and presented on positive art therapy internationally. Gioia is on the faculty at George Washington University.
Gioia has published extensively on topics such as positive art therapy, arts-based research, flow, and altered books.
Gioia’s brightness and generally cheerful disposition embodies the optimism that Creative Wellbeing Workshops promotes. She, her husband and two daughters, and Barley, the Golden Lab, live in Alexandria, Virgini