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- Presentation of techniques for culturally sensitive diagnosis & treatment of environmental concerns and impacts, including anxiety and depression
- Differentiating between (1) normal feelings of anxiety and despair regarding environmental issues and (2) clinical anxiety, depressive and adjustment disorders
- Positive interventions to educate, empower and instill hope and creativity
- Ways to adapt the provider’s existing skill set to address the environmental concerns of their clients and patients (e.g., CBT, ACT, mindfulness, IFS, psychodynamic approaches, positive psychology, etc.).
- Specialized consultation on:
- Research on psychological impacts of climate change and sources of coping and resilience
- Environmental Identity and values, and links with coping and action
- Nature connecting experiences across the lifespan
- Ways to address social and environmental justice issues, such as limited access to restorative places and experiences
- Personal and situational risk factors contributing to environmental anxiety and despair
- Methods for supporting environmental loss and mourning
- Techniques for outdoor counseling, including managing risk and confidentiality
- Addressing dual-diagnosis issues when mental health problems coexist with environmental concerns and activism
- Provider wellbeing and resilience: Holding space for social and environmental issues, limiting vicarious trauma, dealing with personal, family and organizational challenges
- Coaching, role-plays and guided practice
