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 faculty of the International Center for Mental Health & Human Rights, I have facilitated contemplative based trauma and resiliency trainings locally and internationally to communities on the frontlines. 

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 adults and adolescents 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 in my office in Boulder, CO. As a psychotherapist, I take an integrative approach that includes psychodynamic 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.

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 including our 8 week online training Thicket.

I speak English, Spanish and German fluently.
 

Licensed Professional Counselor LPC#0017696

Individual Psychotherapy

FOR ADULTS

At this moment of your life, you may be dealing with new life challenges and are feeling overwhelmed. Or maybe you have a lasting problem that keeps on coming back. Most of us developed all kinds of strategies to deal with life challenges and a lot of those strategies were developed early on in our lives without having a lot of control over them. Maybe you decide you wanted to address some of them now and therapy is a place to do that…   READ MORE >>

for a changing climate

THICKET: A CLIMATE-FOCUSED TRAUMA AND RESILIENCY TRAINING

An eight-week online experiential training program for medical and mental health providers, educators, activists, researchers, public servants and others confronting climate change in their work and beyond.

Offering WORKSHOPS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS at the intersection of mental health and this polycrisis

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for the frontlines

FOR HUMANITARIAN, CLIMATE-AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKERS

Humanitarian, climate- and social justice work can be physically and emotionally demanding. The prolonged witnessing of social, political, and environmental injustices may impact the individual with lasting psychological and spiritual changes. This traumatic stress can come directly – such as experiencing a critical incident or witnessing a violent or threatening event. Or, it may come in the form of vicarious trauma… READ MORE >>