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Go Glo Therapy
Kachina Mooney, MA, LPC, ATR-BC®
Kachina Mooney is a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist℠ and Licensed Professional Counselor, and the founder of Go Glo Therapy. Her clinical work is grounded in the belief that healing happens through connection, creativity, and relationship. She strives to create a therapeutic space where clients feel safe, affirmed, and supported as they explore their experiences at their own pace.
Kachina specializes in art therapy as a tool for meaning-making, resilience, and personal transformation, with a particular focus on grief and loss. She understands grief as something that is often carried in the body, relationships, and imagination — not just in words. Through an approach informed by Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), she centers mutual respect, authenticity, and growth-fostering relationships as essential parts of the healing process.
In sessions, Kachina incorporates a wide range of unique and thoughtfully chosen materials, inviting clients to experiment with texture, movement, symbolism, and process. Art-making becomes a way to build new worlds, revise old stories, and imagine possibilities that may feel out of reach in everyday life. This “worldmaking” approach allows clients to externalize experiences, explore identity, and create space for both grief and hope to coexist.
Kachina has particular experience working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, migrants, and asylum seekers, and approaches her work through a client-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive lens. She offers individual, family, and group art therapy, always prioritizing ethical practice, collaboration, and care for each client’s lived experience.
If you’re feeling curious about art therapy — or if you’re navigating grief and longing for a more relational, creative way to process what you’re carrying — Kachina warmly invites you to reach out. Beginning therapy can feel like a big step, and you don’t have to take it alone. At Go Glo Therapy, you’ll be met with compassion, creativity, and space to imagine new ways forward.
My Story
Kachina’s path to art therapy began early. In middle school, she came across an article about art therapists and felt an immediate, lasting pull — a clear sense that this was the work she was meant to do. Even then, she knew she wanted to take art therapy into the world and make it accessible to anyone who might need support through creativity.
That early spark grew into a lifelong commitment to showing up for people whose stories are complex, painful, unfinished, or still taking shape. Over time, Kachina’s work naturally centered on supporting immigrants and asylum seekers, individuals who often carry profound loss, resilience, and untold narratives. Art-making became a way to honor these stories when words felt insufficient or unsafe.
At the same time, Kachina believes deeply that art therapy belongs to everyone. She welcomes clients from all backgrounds who are interested in processing their experiences, exploring identity, and making meaning through creative expression. Whether someone is navigating grief, transition, or simply seeking a new way to understand themselves, art therapy offers space to slow down, reflect, and imagine something new.
For Kachina, art-making is more than a clinical tool — it is a way of bearing witness, building connection, and creating room for healing. This belief continues to guide her work at Go Glo Therapy, where every client’s story is met with care, curiosity, and respect.
Working With Kachina
Kachina meets people where grief, identity and change intersect. Much of her work centers on grief and loss, including traumatic grief, and on the trauma, anxiety and depression that can travel alongside it. She is an affirming clinician for LGBTQIA+ individuals and relationships, including questions of gender identity, and offers sex-positive, kink-friendly care that welcomes polyamorous and ENM relationships. She also brings particular experience to immigration and acculturation, supporting migrants and asylum seekers through what is lost and what is still being built.
Sessions draw on art therapy, Relational-Cultural Theory, and trauma-informed and existential perspectives. Kachina offers a wide range of thoughtfully chosen materials and invites you to experiment with texture, movement, symbolism and process, so the work can hold what words alone can't. She sees teens and adults as individuals, couples, families and groups, in person at our East Liberty office or virtually anywhere in Pennsylvania.
Path & Practice
Kachina has been a member of the American Art Therapy Association since 2016. She earned her MA in Art Therapy with a specialization in Counseling from Seton Hill University in 2020, and went on to become a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania and a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist℠ (ATR-BC®) through the Art Therapy Credentials Board.
She founded Go Glo Therapy to make art therapy accessible to anyone who might need support through creativity. Today she also teaches as an adjunct instructor in Seton Hill's art therapy program, serves on the American Art Therapy Association's Board of Directors (2026), and chairs Governmental Affairs for the Pennsylvania Art Therapy Association, where she advocates for an independent art therapy license in the state.
Her work on queer worldmaking reaches beyond the therapy room. She co-presented Queer Worldmaking in Art Therapy: Affirming Queer/Trans Lives Through Creative Practice, an AATA continuing-education course (2025), and presented a workshop and paper at the AATA 2026 conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she also leads the LGBTQQIA+ Special Interest Group.
Supervision
Kachina supervises clinicians working toward their ATR® credential and Pennsylvania LPC, bringing the same creative, relational approach to professional growth. Individual supervision meets weekly for one hour on Zoom at $75 per session. Group supervision meets online every Friday, 4:00–5:00 pm, at $50 per session. Book individual ATR® + LPC supervision or join group supervision.
In the Studio
For Kachina, worldmaking isn't only a clinical approach; it is a way of seeing. Art-making lets us step outside an experience, give it shape, and imagine what else might be possible. This part of the page is where her own artwork and studio process will live. A portfolio is coming soon.
Fees & Logistics
Sessions are 45 minutes and $200, with a sliding scale available for anyone who needs it. Kachina provides superbills for out-of-network reimbursement and works with Aetna, Cigna, Highmark BCBS, Optum/UnitedHealthcare and UPMC. She does not accept CHIP, Medicare or Medicaid. She is currently accepting new clients.
Common Questions
Do I need to be good at art?
No. Art therapy is about expression and process, not skill. Kachina offers materials and invitations, and you choose how to engage.
Can I see Kachina online?
Yes. Kachina offers virtual sessions for anyone in Pennsylvania, as well as in-person sessions in Pittsburgh.
Does Kachina work with families and groups?
Yes. She offers individual, family and group art therapy.
Getting Started
Start with a free 15-minute phone consultation: call 412-444-5174, or book a session online.