Emotional Health in the Climate Crisis
“The majority of people in the United States experience some form of distress related to the climate crisis. At the same time, most people rarely talk about such feelings.”
Whether or not you’ve had personal experience as a wildfire survivor, scientist, farmer, or first responder, the climate crisis has profound effects on your life. Many people spend a lot of time thinking about the ecological impacts, but rarely make space for the emotional impacts of climate change on your life.
Therapy can be a place to explore all of the emotions and profound questions that come up living at this point in history. You may be wondering what career to pursue, whether to have children, how to be present in your relationships without feeling overwhelming anxiety. Therapy can be a space to explore those feelings, work on developing coping skills, and explore how you center your values in the way you make life decisions.
I am a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.
EFCT is an evidence-based method of couples therapy based on attachment science. Therapy focuses on mapping out a couple’s negative cycle they get into when conflict comes up and restructuring emotional experience to create positive shifts in both partners. The therapist supports each partner with putting their emotional experience into words and communicating it with their partner. Sessions tend to focus on the couple’s immediate experience and their process in real time.
I have completed the Externship Training in EFCT and is a member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Their website is a great resource to learn more about the model.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
Gottman Method is another evidence-based model that helps couples strengthen the foundations of their relationship, deepen their friendship, and approach conflict constructively. Couples work on getting to know one another’s inner worlds, increase connection and intimacy, and learn new ways of approaching conflict. Gottman Method involves more structured activities and homework outside of sessions than EFCT does. Both methods are based on many years of research and have been found to be effective with couples of various cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and ages.
I have completed Level 1 training in Gottman Method.
Gottman Method
