As a climate-aware psychotherapist, executive director of the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute and member of the North America Climate Psychology Alliance, I am passionate about understanding the immediate mental health impacts of climate related disasters and long term stressors of living with the reality of climate change over time.
I believe that learning emotional resiliency skills with ways of motivating effective action and creating intentional moments of reconnection with the earth and all her inhabitants, feel essential to the wellbeing of our world.
I hold a certificate in Climate Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in California, USA and offer online and in-person climate resilience courses and support groups. These include our 8 week online training Thicket and the Wild Matriarch group focussing on female leadership in climate spaces.
ABOUT Eva
I am a multi-lingual licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in trauma and the emotional and somatic impact of violence on the individual and communities - whether it’s racially or gender-charged violence or the destruction of our planet - grief, anxiety, trauma, shame, feelings of despair and anger are all part of it.
As a psychotherapist, I take an integrative approach that includes contemporary relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy, EMDR, neuroscience, climate-awareness, social justice, and contemplative-based trauma and resiliency training. My work predominantly focuses on female-identified survivors of traumatic experiences as well as challenges related to shame, self-esteem, racial and multicultural identities, and climate distress.
In my work with you, I pay attention to how constructs such as power, race, gender, socio-economics, and sociopolitical environments impact the individual, family, and community identity, well-being, and health. Traumatic experiences happen within a social context and tailoring my approach according to your concerns, challenges, and unique socio-cultural background feels essential in our work together.
I have been working with young adults and adults in the mental health and education field since 2005. I graduated from the California Institute for Integral Studies with a Master’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology and hold a Social Work degree from Hochschule Niederrhein in Germany. I offer individual and group psychotherapy as well as clinical consultation in my office in Boulder, CO as well as online.
I speak English, Spanish and German fluently.