Board of Directors Election 2026-2028
This is our very first election and we will have staggered terms to allow for board members to apply and serve on a rolling basis.
This year, four current board members are up for a re-election to serve a two-year term, and one new candidate is seeking a two-year term.
Only CPA-NA Members can vote for these positions. Visit the members-only page to vote. We’ve linked it at the bottom of the page.
We are also seeking interim board members for one-year terms. Nominees and applicants do not have to be members yet, but they will be required to join prior to serving. Read on for their details!
What is the Board of Directors?
A team of climate-aware therapy professionals who meet bi-weekly to handle all things executive, this includes approving budgets, programming, organizational priorities, social justice support, providing membership support, and embracing partnership opportunities.
Submissions to the nomination/application form will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a submission deadline by Dec 5.
The ballot and application/nomination forms can be found at the buttons below the candidate information.
Audrey Martin is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the Bay Area, where she meets with adults and adolescents for individual, couples, and family work. Formerly, Audrey developed a training program for clinicians at the McAuley Institute at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, as well as serving as a supervisor, instructor, and presenter on various clinical topics at psychoanalytic institutes and non-profit organizations throughout the Bay Area. Within CPA-NA, Audrey focuses on groups like Climate Cafes that provide communities, organizations, and individuals an accessible, contained spaces to reflect on feelings about the climate crisis, emerge out of isolation and find renergy to engage with activism. Audrey currently manages the CPA-NA Hub for Facilitators of Climate Emotion Support groups, chairs the Hub Subcommittee, as well as serving on the Budget Committee and supporting Climate Cafe training of new facilitators.
“To put it bluntly, the work of denial is not necessarily easier than the work of nondenial.” – Donald Moss
An engineering graduate of The Johns Hopkins University , Jeff started and ran an IT consulting company from 1986 to 2013. Since retiring in 2013 he has earned two Masters degrees at the University of Florida, one in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, the other in Finance. He is currently a PhD student at UF in Interdisciplinary Ecology.
Jeff has extensive non-profit experience, having served on numerous boards in varying executive capacities in the domains of affordable housing, workforce development and entrepreneurship, and elder services.
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
Lise is a practicing general and forensic psychiatrist in Washington, D.C., and is an expert on the physical and mental health effects of climate change. She has served as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University; She has also been a consultant to the executive branch of the US government, where she has provided profiles of world leaders. In addition to community organizing on climate issues, Lise has served on the advisory board of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, and now serves on the board of the Earth Day Network.
“I want to summon memory of my ancestors, and what they’re seeing and saying to me right now, telling me to have courage. And then I envision my progeny turning around with hopeful eyes. I’m thinking that they are depending on the success of all that we do together.”
Sadie is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Working living and working on Pocumtuc land in Amherst, MA. Her work spans individual psychotherapy, guest lectures, trainings, and climate cafes that support individuals and groups in the work of metabolizing our pain for the world, building emotional resilience and reducing isolation in the face of our global polycrisis. Within CPA-NA, Sadie co-developed our Deep Dive training program for climate cafe facilitators, serves on the public climate cafe facilitator team, and chairs the Climate Cafe Development Group. She also holds a certificate in Climate Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
“May we look up at the night sky. May we let joy in. For we will be someone’s ancestors one day. If we do this right, they will inherit not our fear but bravery born of joy.” -Valarie Kaurs
These experiences ultimately led her to psychotherapy, where she now focuses on themes of grief, loss, existential meaning-making, and trauma. Drawing from evidence-based and mindfulness-informed approaches, she helps individuals and couples navigate the emotional terrain of health challenges, identity shifts, and life’s inevitable ruptures with greater compassion and resilience.
Her work is grounded in an integrative perspective that honors the interplay between mind, body, and environment. She is particularly interested in how experiences of loss and disruption, both personal and collective, can open pathways toward deeper connection, embodiment, and meaning.
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pick the climate-aware therapy professionals you’d like to handle the executive functioning of the org. Members will also receive an email with the voting link.
Interested in joining the Board as an interim member for one year? Apply. Looking to nominate a climate-aware friend? Nominate them! Interim Board members serve for one year and are eligible for full board membership after their term is up. The interim position is one year and anyone who applies for interim is eligible to become full. Nominees/applicants can be non-members but must become a member before beginning the position in January 2027.