Regional Coordinators

Alison Schweichler

Upstate New York Coordinator

Alison Schweichler is a licensed clinical social worker in Western New York. She works in private practice with clients of all ages specializing in the treatment of OCD and body-focused repetitive behaviors like hair pulling and skin picking disorders. She has a history of working with local community groups on environmental issues. As a child and play therapist making things fun and having a sense a humor is an important part of her work. She can often be found playing outside with her son or on local ski slopes!

Becca Manthe

Minnesota Coordinator

Becca Manthe, MA, LAMFT, ATR-P (she/hers), specializes in eco-arts climate-aware therapy, with nature and the arts as co-therapists in her clinical and community work. Weaving together design + eco-wellness + creative arts has supported the development of processes and tools for people sensitive to climate and broader cultural change in rural and urban communities. Becca holds an MA in Counseling from Adler Graduate School with a dual concentration of Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy; special training in Climate-Aware and Eco-Arts Therapy; a BA in Industrial Design from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; and was a professional musician and violin teacher for 20+ years before training as a mental health provider.

In Minnesota, Becca is the founder of the Nature-Connected Professionals community & networking group. The Nature-Connected Professionals gather seasonally to cultivate depth through community building, engage broadly through networking, and steward care for life by generously sharing skills, knowledge, and the wisdom of experience. Engagement through the NCP and CPA-NA MN Region will broaden outreach and deepen interconnection in our local community and bioregion.

Caitlyn Wallace

Nevada Coordinator

Caitlyn Wallace, LCSW, PMH-C, was born and raised in Reno, NV where she currently has a growing practice focusing on climate concern, perinatal mental health, and the intersection of these two. In addition to her work with CPA-NA, she is a founding Board Member of the Nevada Chapter of Postpartum Support International. She hosts Climate Cafes in the community, currently in partnership with Reno Food Systems, a local food hub. She also works to create resilience through kin keeping, activism, and community building efforts. She is a mother, community tender, and change maker who can be found outdoors on any given Sunday.

Chelsea Rissner

Co-Chair of the Regional Coordinator program, Co-Coordinator of NYC/Brooklyn

Chelsea Rissner is a Gestalt-informed psychotherapist based in New York City. She has a particular interest in ecological and systems-level practice, participatory action research, and place-based interventions in support of social and environmental justice.

Christine Homan

Regional Coordinator - Colorado

Christine is also Co-Founder and Marketing Director of the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, where she leads communications and community building efforts to broaden awareness of and access to psychologically grounded support for people navigating climate reality.

Cordelia Huxtable

Co-Chair of the Regional Coordinator program

Cordelia Huxtable (M.Psyc, G. Dip. Psyc) is a Registered Psychotherapist with a busy private practice in Toronto, Canada. She practices relational, trauma-informed and climate-aware psychotherapy. She helps people form a deeper relationship with themselves, each other and their environment.

Dix Moore-Broussard

Louisiana Coordinator

Dix is a generational New Orleanian (Bulbancha, descendants of the Biloxi, Tunica, Chitimacha, Houma, Choctaw, Atakapa, Pointe-au-Chien, Isle de Jean Charles), art psychotherapist and climate-aware therapist specializing in trauma, disaster, and collective post-traumatic growth. As co-founder and director of The Neutral Ground Collective, they integrate the arts, movement, and neuroscience to support communities in building and defining resilience through trauma-conscious, somatic-based approaches. Certified in Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga and polyvagal-informed art therapy, dix focuses on strengthening collective nervous system regulation and social connection in the face of crises. Their work is grounded in community-based recovery and informed by organizations such as Climate Mental Health Network, Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, International Transformational Resilience Coalition, The Pocket Project, and Bayou Culture Collaborative.

Elizabeth Padilla

Minnesota Coordinator

Elizabeth Padilla, LICSW, is a licensed therapist in Bloomington, MN where she specializes in climate aware therapy, OCD, anxiety, and grief. In recent years Elizabeth has enjoyed facilitating Eco-anxiety presentations for activists, therapists, and community members. She practices from a systems perspective, using an eclectic blend of therapeutic skills to help individuals confront grief and build connection to self, community, and environment in order to build resilience. Climate-aware therapy is work she finds deeply rewarding. Elizabeth was born and raised in San Diego, CA and loves being near the water, especially if there are pelicans overhead. In her free-time Elizabeth enjoys playing with her children, community organizing and activism, weaving and skateboarding.

Emily Pleasance

Ontario Coordinator

Emily Pleasance resides on the traditional, unceded lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Wendat, and the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, in what is now called Tkaronto (Toronto). She is a Climate-Aware Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Expressive Arts Therapist (ExAT), certified Nature & Forest Therapy Guide, and founder of the Forest Bathing Club. Emily’s work in eco/climate psychology bridges public programs, corporate wellness, and clinical practice, supporting individuals and groups in navigating stress, anxiety, and climate grief through arts-, body-, and nature-based approaches. She is also a conceptual artist with a practice rooted in human–nature relationships.

Gina Bates

Massachusetts Coordinator

Gina Bates (she/her) resides in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the Youth Services Coordinator at Samaritans where she primarily works to recruit, train, and support youth volunteers who answer texts on Samaritans’ youth peer-to-peer text line called Hey Sam. Outside of her professional life, Gina hosts outdoor “Public Living Rooms” in Boston with the hopes of building and strengthening her local community and inspiring individuals to spend time outside!

Gina holds an MSc in Childhood Development and Wellbeing in Practice from Manchester Metropolitan University in England. For her master’s, she conducted original qualitative research on the positive psychological wellbeing of climate activists. Through her research and her own experiences in climate activism and community gardens, Gina has developed a passion for understanding how we can bring communities “back to life”, especially in light of the intensifying climate crisis. She hopes to continue exploring this idea (via work and/or going back to school) with a particular focus on young people.

Helen Boyd

British Columbia (Vancouver Island) Coordinator

Helen Boyd (she/her) is a Registered Nurse and Climate-Aware Therapist living on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, in what is now known as Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Drawing from a range of therapeutic modalities, Helen specializes in supporting individuals through major life transitions—whether navigating health challenges, the aging process, end-of-life issues, or the emotional impacts of climate distress—with a focus on clarity, hope, and resilience. A long-time advocate for social justice, human and planetary health, Helen works to address the interconnected crises we face and is dedicated to strengthening community resilience to extreme weather events both in Canada and overseas. She is an active member of the Disaster Committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance North America.

Janna Diamond

Georgia Coordinator

Janna Diamond, ACCEP (she/her) is a somatic practitioner in private practice in Atlanta, GA and virtually around the world. She is the founder of Evolutionary Somatic Practice, an integrative therapeutic approach to healing and trauma repair for climate changing times. Janna’s focus is on supporting individuals and groups to build inner resources for collective evolution. She develops and leads programs on climate resiliency for organizations and universities across the U.S., is a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects, and has a background in community organizing and grassroots advocacy.

Jennifer (Jen) Johnson

North Carolina Coordinator

Jennifer (Jen) Johnson, MS, MS, MFA, LCMHC is a therapist, mindfulness teacher, speaker, writer, and photographer based in Wilmington, North Carolina. She offers a mindfulness, creative arts, and ecotherapy approach to stress, grief, resilience, and our evolving relationship with the living world. Jen works with individuals experiencing stress, loss, life transitions, and climate distress and collaborates with organizations to navigate stress, process grief, and cultivate resilience through experiential workshops and retreats.

Rooted in contemplative practice and creative scholarship, Jen’s work explores how mindful writing and attentive engagement with the natural world help us tend ecological grief while cultivating creative resilience in uncertain times. Jen is a mindfulness instructor for the University of North Carolina Program on Integrative Medicine and the author of Everyday Mindful on Substack. She photographs ghost forests in the Cape Fear River basin, bearing witness to trees dying from saltwater intrusion and the changing landscape of the living world.  jenjohnson.com

Jennifer Fendya

Upstate New York Coordinator

Jennifer Fendya, Ph.D., has lived most of her life on the Great Lakes, and currently resides in Buffalo, NY, traditional territory of the Seneca Nation, keepers of the Western Door of the Haudenosaunee longhouse. As Psychologist and Sandplay practitioner, Jennifer works primarily with Jungian-oriented approaches to healing. She is an ANFT-certified nature and forest therapy guide, a longtime student and teacher of Nalanda Miksang contemplative photography, and board member of Radical Joy for Hard Times.

Jennifer serves on CPA-NA’s Climate Café facilitator training and support team and is a facilitator of CPA-UK’s Through the Door workshop. Through Healing Circles Global and the Western NY Environmental Alliance, she regularly hosts community conversations addressing the destabilizing effects of the metacrisis on mental health, societal cohesiveness and our complex planetary systems.

Eco-spiritual and creative arts practices remind Jennifer of the somatic and relational benefits of slowing down and re-attuning the senses to the other-than-human. Knowing that acting in reciprocity with the land is a generative pathway for the ecological self, Jennifer hopes to inspire and empower others to take up “good Earth-keeping” to bring care, beauty and joy to hurt places (including our collective human heart).

“Every choice we make in our political and personal lives is a prayer. All change is prayerful action toward a different kind of world – an act of faith toward the future and an act of heresy toward the status quo.” - Maria Popova

Jon Reeves

Washington Coordinator

Jon Reeves, PhD (he/him) is a licensed clinical psychologist in Seattle, WA. He founded Forefront Psychology, a psychodynamic therapy practice which helps students and professionals in Washington and Massachusetts deepen their relationships with others, themselves, and their environment. He primarily works with folks dealing with anxiety, relationship distress, ecological grief, career dissatisfaction, men struggling to access their internal lives, and those who need help to find direction in times of transition and change.

Justine Feilden

Washington Coordinator

Justine is a sustainability professional with a PhD in life sciences. She became interested in the links between climate change and mental health while working at Imperial College London, where she had the opportunity to lead a research project developing global recommendations to address this issue. Since then she’s run climate cafes and installed nature gardens at work to co-benefit wellbeing and wildlife. In her spare time she loves hiking, baking, and taking her pocket rocket daughter on adventures.

Kara London

Southern California Coordinator

Kara London, LMFT (she/her) is an ecotherapist, educator, group facilitator, and creative, residing in Southern California in the unceded lands of the Tongva and Kizh people. She holds a Masters in Clinical Counseling Psychology, a certificate in Ecopsychology, and is a fully certified Ecotherapist through Earthbody Institute. Historically, she worked in a non-profit mindfulness center, a group private practice, and over a decade developed a focus as a school-based mental health therapist. In 2023, she transitioned to private practice, to specialize in ecotherapy and mindfulness based therapy. She also provides instruction in Ecotherapy through Earthbody Institute.

Her work as a therapist is grounded in human attachment, mindfulness, compassion, creativity, somatic awareness, and relationship with nature. As a climate aware ecotherapist, she understands the direct relationship between our mental health and the health of the planet. She welcomes work with people of all backgrounds and intersections, including BIPOC, Latinx, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, ability diverse, and other communities. She also enjoys working with creatives, change makers, perfectionists, empaths, and Earth lovers. She believes that the challenges we are facing now culturally, socially, and environmentally, need to be addressed through community-building that is inclusive of social justice and encourages reciprocal relationship with Earth.

Karina Conrad

Illinois Coordinator

Karina Conrad, CDP, LCPC, resides in La Grange Park, IL.  She is a climate-aware therapist at Positively Psyched in La Grange, IL.

Karina is passionate about working with clients experiencing anxiety and grief related to the climate crisis.  As a therapist, she believesin the healing power of the therapeutic relationship built on trust, authenticity, connection and freedom.

Karina is also a member of the Catholic Congregation of Divine Providence, a community of women committed to helping others find healing and peace within themselves. Karina focuses on creating spaces for community building and holds important the interconnectedness of all living things as sacred.

Katy A. Rendinaro Kimple

Regional Coordinator - Capital Region/Adirondacks/North Country New York

My therapeutic approach is based on a humanistic and strength-based approach. I am a licensed social worker living in the Adirondacks with a deep connection and appreciation for the natural world. I am a culturally sensitive clinician who emphasizes working transparently and collaboratively with people of all backgrounds and orientations. My approach is grounded in evidence-based practices and therapeutic techniques for a holistic and tailored approach to manage anxiety and depression, grief and eco-grief and healing emotional pain and trauma while building self confidence and creating a calm and regulated nervous system.

Lauren Hawkins

Texas Coordinator

Lauren Hawkins (she/her) is a queer, climate-aware, trauma therapist in Fort Worth, Texas, living on the traditional lands of the Jumanos, Wichita, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), and Tawakoni nations. She is the owner of Nurtured Nature Counseling, a private practice specializing in climate anxiety, EMDR, and religious trauma. Lauren is passionate about providing an authentic space for collaboration and uplifting the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Lauren is also the author of a manuscript titled “Climate change and mental health: the counseling professional’s role” and hopes to continue advocating for counselors’ involvement as frontline members of the climate justice movement.

Liliane Mavridara

Co-Chair - Regional Coordinator program

Liliane Mavridara MA, DipACLM, is a trauma-informed interdisciplinary professional with over 25 years’ experience in cross-cultural facilitation & community empowerment in the USA and Europe.

Liliane has been a CPA-NA member since 2022, actively involved in initiatives such as the Trauma-informed Climate Journalism Project and the Public Facing Climate Cafes, and she is a trainer in the Climate Cafe Facilitator program, and a Co-Chair of the Regional Coordinators program.

Outside of CPA-NA, Liliane consults and educates on the impact of environmental pollution and climate emergency on individual and community holistic health & wellbeing, and she facilitates and mentors group circles that cultivate relational and eco-social skills capacity for sense-making, and purposeful navigation and co-transformation of the current polycrisis.

Lisa Harkema

North Carolina Coordinator

Lisa Harkema is a licensed clinical mental health counselor based in Asheville, North Carolina. She works primarily with adults experiencing anxiety, trauma, depression, and climate-related distress. Her approach is trauma informed and rooted in attachment, mindfulness, and self-compassion, with an emphasis on building steady, practical resilience.

Lisa cares deeply about creating spaces where people can talk honestly about ecological and climate concerns. She facilitates Climate Cafés that provide a supportive setting for exploring the feelings that arise in response to climate change.

She holds an MS in Counseling from University at Albany, SUNY, where her graduate work focused on experiential therapy. Outside of her clinical work, she enjoys gardening, mountain biking, and science fiction, activities that keep her grounded and curious.

Liza Marks

Georgia Coordinator

Information to come.

Marilee Feldman

Illinois Coordinator

Marilee Feldman, LCPC, CADC, is a therapist in west suburban Chicago who runs Life Counseling Institute, a group practice that specializes in exposure and cognitive-based therapies for anxiety and OCD. She is passionate about working with clients struggling with anxiety and eco-distress, training and educating other therapists, and finding ways to become educated about and take action to address climate change. In her spare time she enjoys walking her dog, hiking/being outdoors, going to concerts and art fairs, reading, and knitting.

Meg Richey

British Columbia (Northern Interior) Regional Coordinator

Meg Richey (she/her) is a climate-aware therapist and registered clinical counsellor working in private practice in Smithers, British Columbia, the unceded traditional territory of the Gidimt’en Clan and the Witsuwit’en people. She is currently completing a PhD in environmental studies and health education, with a focus on how members of Generation Z are building emotional resilience in the ecological crisis. Meg is passionate about working with clients and communities struggling with eco-distress, and finding ways to connect both emotionally and spiritually to the more-than-human world. She is also a rock climber, trail runner, artist, and aspiring gardener.

Miriam Brodersen

North Carolina (Piedmont Area) Coordinator

Miriam (she/her) is a Certified Hakomi Therapist in private practice in Durham, NC. She specializes in mindfulness-based ecotherapy and climate resiliency. In addition to 1:1 work, Miriam offers groups and public presentations on eco-anxiety and grief. She is passionate about working with people who are feeling the weight of the world’s crises and longing to live in greater alignment with their values. Miriam believes that reconnecting to our innate sense of aliveness and belonging is vital to our collective liberation. She lives in a co-housing community with her partner and child, where she can often be found gardening, cooking community meals, or walking by the river.

Monica Dragosz

British Columbia (Interior) Coordinator

Monica Dragosz is a practicing therapist in Alberta and British Columbia, and currently residing in the Columbia Valley of southeastern British Columbia, traditional Ktunaxa and Secwepemc territories. While her work focuses on the effects of adverse childhood experiences, high sensitivity, burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, she is also interested in ecological grief, ecological anxiety, collective trauma and how psychotherapy might intersect with social and environmental justice. Her clinical work is trauma-informed, climate-aware, nature-inspired, and guided by the “felt sense.” She is a co-facilitator of the Canadian Ecopsychology Network’s Ecopsychology Café and Climate Circle, and recently completed training as a wilderness rites of passage guide.

Orianna Webb

Regional Co-Coordinator - New York City

Orianna Webb is an LCSW based in Queens, NYC.  She maintains a private telehealth practice in New York and New Jersey providing trauma-informed and metacrisis-aware therapy to adults and youth.  Previous to becoming a mental health practitioner she had a career as a classical music composer and teacher.

Rosalind Christian

Alberta Coordinator

Rosalind resides on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional meeting ground, gathering place, and travelling route of the nêhiyawak (Cree), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Dene, and Nakota Sioux. Rosalind’s graduate research focused on population-level interventions for preventing and diminishing the negative mental health impacts of wildfire. She is interested in community models of care and exploring alternatives to the 1:1 therapy model. As a therapist in private practice she focuses on the treatment of trauma. Her background in anthropology informs her view that our systems, social, and cultural realities are fundamental to who we are.

Sarah Aronson

Alaska Coordinator

After nearly three decades living down south, Sarah Aronson has returned to Southeast Alaska to serve her home state and hospice her neighborhood glacier. As a licensed clinician, her psychotherapy practice centers relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed, and climate-aware approaches.

Sarah also holds an MFA in poetry, which informs the creative practices utilized in her climate grief workshops. Lastly, she is the host of the Montana Public Radio program and podcast, Grounding: Conversations on Mental Health and Mother Earth which has featured such climate psychology leaders as Leslie Davenport, Panu Pihkala, and Renee Lertzman.

Zoe Rossing

Regional Coordinator - Oregon

Zoe Rossing, MSW, CSWA is a mental health therapist in Ashland, Oregon who supports adults and teens recovering from trauma through her private practice and the Family Behavioral Health Network. She also develops and coordinates a program on climate emotions and resiliency for farmers, ranchers, master gardeners and other land-based professions through the Oregon State University Extension Service. Prior to becoming a therapist, Zoe had a long career working with nonprofits focused on mitigating climate change, improving food systems, and supporting sustainable agriculture and rural communities.