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Anna Graybeal
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Anna Graybeal, PhD
Support people in having and expressing their difficult feelings about climate change and other associated environmental crises so that they no longer need to stay in denial, their heads firmly buried in the sand, just to get through their day.
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1. As a psychotherapist, I help people recognize what they are feeling and help them learn how to express those feelings constructively rather than destructively. 2. I specialize in group psychotherapy, a format that presents people with immediate, in-the-moment opportunities to do #1 (above), and in so doing helps people progress rapidly and in a way that readily translates to the outside world. 3. I am constantly engaged in my own training, which in part involves making myself get ever more in touch with my own difficult feelings, allowing me to work very deeply with my clients on theirs.
As listed in the question above, I am working very hard to help people get in touch with the full range of their feelings about our environmental crises, including strong and uncomfortable feelings such as dread, anxiety, terror, rage, and despair. I believe that most people have never gotten enough help containing difficult feelings like this. As challenging as it may be to feel these feelings, it turns out that over time it has huge benefits, making people more and more capable of handling the stresses and strains of everyday life. With respect to our environmental crises, and that that is why so many of us avoid or even deny the upsetting state of the world that is so apparent all around us.
n/a (I am a sole practitioner)
I believe that the more people I can help with having ALL of their feelings, the more people we will have who are able to engage WITH, rather than avoid, the solutions we need to address these environmental crises.
Again, the more people we can get to be engaged on environmental issues, the better off the planet will be.
I haven't focused _enough_ on providing groups for people to talk specifically about environmental issues, in part because even I am resistant to truly feeling all the feelings that get stirred up. We are literally talking about a global-scaled existential threat! It's quite hard to open up to feeling all the terrible feelings that facing that reality involves. I'm working hard to support myself enough that I can provide this opportunity for people, because I believe it is critically important.
I am currently forming a short-term psychotherapy group specifically for people to express the full range of their thoughts and feelings about climate change. I am currently conducting intake interviews and the group will begin in October, meeting on Wednesdays (over Zoom, for now) from 5:15 - 6:45.
Anna Graybeal
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