Emily Rawlings, LPMT, MT-BC
Director & Music Therapist
Emily has been a music therapist since 2008 and has extensive experience in a community setting, working with a variety of individuals and groups. Centering her work around disability affirming and neurodivergent affirming models, Emily recognizes how critical it is to celebrate identity and achieve goals within this approach. She values creativity and the opportunity for expression within all her sessions. Over the years, Emily has seen firsthand just how valuable music therapy can be in many lives, and receives great joy in participating in a music space with others.
Emily grew up in a large musical family in Oregon. At age 8 Emily began formal instruction on the piano, at age 14 she began learning percussion, and she threw guitar into the mix as an adult. As a teenager, Emily incorporated music experiences into her own life as a means of coping and expressing self. Initially, Emily began her college education at Brigham Young University as a Music Performance major with an emphasis in percussion, and later transferred to Marylhurst University to receive a Bachelors Degree of Music Therapy, still declaring percussion as her primary instrument. Having grown up with hearing loss and limb difference, Emily is placed in a unique position of being able to relate to many of her clients in a specific way. It is also the experience of adaptation and accommodations that help to shape Emily’s perspective that trials make an individual stronger and that anyone has the potential to accomplish their dreams. Combining an extensive musical background, education, and personal experience of living a life with disabilities serve to make Emily a unique and effective music therapist.
Kira Hardin-James, LPMT, MT-BC
Music Therapist
Kira is a Las Vegas Local and has lived here most of her life. Following her graduation from the Las Vegas Academy of the Performing Arts, she moved to the East Coast to pursue her Music Therapy degree at Howard University in Washington D.C. After finishing with honors and completing her internship at the nation’s first federally-funded psychiatric hospital, she moved back home to Las Vegas. She passed her certification exam in October of 2024.
Music has always been a central aspect of Kira’s life. She enjoyed singing and dancing as a child and participated in multiple choirs and musical theater shows. Though she was initially a vocalist and had no history of playing instruments, she took the time and worked diligently to gain proficiency in guitar, piano, and percussion throughout her years of education and training. During her time at Howard, she co-founded the first Music Therapy club ever made at an HBCU, which is still functioning and teaching other students about Music Therapy today.
Kira is determined to help create a safe space in music therapy for people of all ages and backgrounds! She values the effects of inclusivity and diversity of cultures and ideas and feels very strongly about representation within the Music Therapy world. Kira enjoys using music to connect with individuals, whether it is through singing, dancing, or playing together. She hopes to create a feeling of worthiness, safety, and love within the Vegas community here at Dynamic Music Therapy.
Page Davidson, LPMT, MT-BC
Music Therapist
Page received her Board Certification for Music Therapy in August 2023 after completing her internship here at Dynamic Music Therapy in Las Vegas. Page is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin having lived in the Midwest for the first 18 years of life after graduating from The Kettle Moraine School for Arts and Performance. She then moved to Forest Grove, Oregon to pursue her Music Therapy degree at Pacific University. Music Therapy is a coping tool Page has utilized from a young age for herself and others via music listening, performing, and singing to form resiliency, community, stress management and self-expression. Since Page was a young girl she would sing at assisted living facilities, volunteer & mentor middle school children, work with special needs programs, and sing for family members in terminal situations; all employing an artistic lense for healing or skill building.
Page highly values working with a diverse range of clients as she has had the pleasure of connecting with many different populations over the years. She currently works with clients of all ages and a range of diagnosis serving individuals with special needs, physical needs, and mental health concerns. Page practices within a lens of promoting mental health by creating a safe space for clients to process their emotional and sensory needs first. She then provides musical activities that focus on skill building to assist in motor movement, cognitive functioning, communication, and socialization. She recognizes the importance of developing a strong and trusting relationship with her clients so they feel fully supported in working on their goals together.
Maddy Wu, MT-BC
Music Therapist
Maddy Wu is a board certified music therapist who moved to Las Vegas in January of 2025. She is most recently from New Providence, New Jersey, but has lived all over the Northeast. She spent much of her childhood and adolescence engaging with the world through music. Maddy got her start in music playing classical piano and began lessons at the age of 5. Her grandfather, who played the ErHu in the Peking Opera, was a big inspiration to her as a child. Since then, her love of music has continued to blossom and she has added guitar, voice, organ, mallet percussion, and flute to her musical toolbox.
Her musical passions took her to Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where she received her bachelor’s degree in music therapy at the largest undergraduate music therapy program in the country. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant for the Berklee Music and Health Institute, where she partnered with Greater Boston communities to create pilot music therapy programs that supported community cohesion and safety, coordinated research studies investigating the impact of music on health and wellness, and developed technology to support intergenerational connections.