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Training for a "Time Between Worlds"*

My education, un-education, and re-education is ongoing. 

My training orbits these questions:

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What approaches to healing will we need in 10 years, and how can we embody them today?

How might Western psychotherapy and re-wilded approaches to healing dance together?

What approaches to healing is Life asking of us?

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Education

2025

2023

2023

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate Psychology

Elemental Psychology, PLLC

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Predoctoral Internship

University of Rochester University Counseling Center

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Clinical Psychology Ph.D.

Rowan University

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Training & Certifications

Climate Disaster Mental Health Series; Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

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Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware; Center for Climate Psychology

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The Ancestral Healing Code; Academy of Inner Science

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Deep Dive Advanced Certification for Climate Cafe Facilitators; Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

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Peer Consultation Group for Climate Aware Therapists (ongoing); Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

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Climate Cafe Facilitation; Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

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Climate Conscious Therapy Training Group (ongoing); Anna Graybeal, Ph.D.

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Climate Psychology Certificate; California Institute for Integral Studies

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Reparative Communal Consultations for White Bodies; Education for Racial Equity

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Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies; Education for Racial Equity

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Healing Centered Education: The Emergence of a Restorative Paradigm; The Acosta Institute

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At its best, my work flows within a current of regeneration much larger and longer than any one person. That flow includes:

Human Teachers: Joanna Macy; Thomas Hubl; Francis Weller; Resmaa Menakem; Steffi Bednarek; Bayo Akomolafe; David Fleming; Bill Plotkin; Vanessa Andreotti; Dougald Hine; Tara Brach; Nate Hagens

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Group Guides: The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America; The Pachamama Alliance; The Animas Valley Institute

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Blood Ancestors: Female medicine women of Gaelic and Eastern Europe

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Land Ancestors: The Seneca Nation of the Genesee River Watershed and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

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More-Than-Human Teachers: Oak; Hawthorn; Milkweed; Elderberry; Rabbit; Moss; Hawk; Cardinal; Moon

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Advocacy

I volunteer my time with organizations to whom I owe my training. I find this advocacy deepens the work I'm able to do with clients in unexpected and beautiful ways.​

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I currently hold the following positions with the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.

  • Executive Committee - Treasurer

  • Clinical Support Committee - Member

  • Development Committee - Member

  • Budget Committee - Member

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I currently volunteer clinical supervision to pre-licensed psychotherapists through Elemental Psychology, PLLC.

*A "time between worlds" is an evocative phrase from author and educator Dougald Hine. Interested? Check out my Resources page for more.

Contact Me

Interested in working together? You can reach me here.

Note - I am seeing therapy clients through Elemental Psychology through December, 2025. I am reachable through either website or via email.

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Emma Nelson, Ph.D.

Rochester, New York

emmanelsonphd@gmail.com

626-859-0283

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