Rebecca Wildbear, MS, LPC

Adult Clinical Therapist

A licensed professional counselor with more than a decade’s worth of experience as a wilderness therapist, Rebecca brings a distinguished academic foundation and a diverse experiential background to her service in the wilderness.

A self-described “wild-hearted wanderer,” Rebecca specializes in helping individuals heal from trauma, open themselves to new and enriching relationships with the natural world, and develop to their fullest potential. Her lifelong love of nature is infused with the belief that the wild provides the ideal location in which lost or broken individuals can find the path that will lead them back to healthy and fulfilling lives.

After earning her master’s degree in counseling from John’s Hopkins University in 1997, Rebecca began her work as a wilderness therapist, helping to heal young people and their families. Prior to Open Sky, Rebecca worked at Outward Bound, Alldredge Academy, Aspen Achievement Academy and Passages to Recovery. She has worked with both adolescents as well as young adults and their families.

Throughout her career, Rebecca has continued her quest to explore the limitless potential of the human beings while educating herself in a variety of therapeutic methods and philosophies. She is a certified yoga instructor, has attended two 10-day Vipassana meditation retreats and has studied with the Animas Valley Institute (AVI). Her work is strongly influenced by AVI’s founder Bill Plotkin and his model of human maturation, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel. In 2007, she completed a two-year comprehensive training course in the Hakomi method, a body-centered approach to experiential therapy that combines Eastern traditions of mindfulness and non-violence with a unique, highly effective Western methodology.

In both her personal studies and her professional service, Rebecca is focused on exploring pathways to the divine, learning practices for giving and receiving love, and developing techniques for self-nurturing.