As we face the terrifying realities of the unfolding ecological and sociopolitical metacrisis, how do we as mental health clinicians hold our own anguish alongside that of our clients? How do we work with various forms of climate despair in psychotherapy? And what perspectives on hope and empowerment might be useful?
The CPA-NA Clinical Support Committee is pleased to bring together a panel of visionary climate-aware therapists from varied theoretical backgrounds who have been grappling with these challenges - Kyle X. Hill, Ph.D., Eva Jahn LPC, DIPL.SW, and Steffi Bednarek, Ph.D.
Through case vignettes and moderated discussion among the panelists, as well as break-out rooms and Q and A, we will explore what compassionate and transformative psychotherapy might look like in this liminal time.
Meet the Team:
Kyle X. Hill, PhD, MPH (panelist) is an Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain Band; Enrolled Citizen), Dakota (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe), Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe). He is a clinical psychologist active in community-based participatory research and psychotherapy at the intersection of climate justice and Land-based healing within Indigenous communities. He is a regular contributor to Dear Climate Therapist on Dr. Britt Wray’s UnThinkable Substack and past instructor with the Climate Psychology Certificate program at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS).
Steffi Bednarek, MA, BA, MBACP (panelist) is the founder and director of the Centre for Climate Psychology and is a published writer, speaker and curator of learning experiences at the intersection between climate change, mental health and living systems thinking. She has over 25 years of experience in systemic change and trauma therapy, supporting individuals and organisations to stay resilient, adaptive, creative and responsive in the face of global upheaval and climate anxiety.
Eva Jahn, LPC, DIPL.SW (panelist) is the Executive director of the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute and faculty at the International Center for Mental Health & Human Rights. She has facilitated contemplative based trauma and resiliency trainings locally and internationally to frontline communities. She also has a practice as a multi-lingual psychotherapist specializing in trauma and the emotional and somatic impact of violence on the individual and communities, including racially or gender-charged violence or the destruction of our planet.
Emma Nelson, PhD (moderator) is a prelicensed clinical psychologist working at the intersection of mental health care and the collective crises of our time. She is an Executive and Clinical Support Committee member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.
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