Meet the Team

  • Dr. Ariana Greene (formerly Moran)

    FOUNDER

    Ariana is the founder of Elemental Psychology.

    She is a psychologist, healer, environmentalist, educator, ceremonialist, plant medicine integrationist, and dreamer.

    Read about her style and approach as a therapist.

    Ariana’s personal and professional work in the world is in service of a collective dream of a new planetary future. She works on behalf of the psychospiritual evolution necessary to navigate this time of great transition in the world.

    Ariana is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, the Arbor Legacy, and Mama Medicine’s Alumni of Apprenticeship of Original Essence. She is a graduate of Awake in the Dream School and ICEER’s certification programs for psychedelic integration.

    Ariana identifies as a multidimensional being. She currently resides on Cherokee territory in the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina. Ariana has had the honor of studying with many profound teachers and elders including Dr. Laura-Edwards-Leeper, Angell Deer, Sarah Maclean Bicknell, Dr. Katherine Lawson, Deborah Hanekamp, and the trees.

  • Dr. Emma Nelson

    POST DOCTORAL FELLOW

    Emma is a postdoctoral fellow at Elemental Psychology.

    She is a pre-licensed psychologist, spiritual seeker, climate and social justice activist, healer, and divergent thinker.

    Read about her style and approach as a therapist.

    Emma’s work is devoted to a sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling human presence on this planet. She finds her place in these times by seeding islands of reconnection to self, others, and the more-than-human world.

    Emma is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and graduate of the Climate Psychology Certificate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is a long-term contemplative practitioner across several faith-based and secular traditions and continues to practice and study in Buddhist and Jewish communities.

    Emma identifies as interfaith, cis, queer, and white. She copes with chronic illness, is joyfully married, and mothers one very playful toddler. She is slowly regenerating a small patch of unceded Seneca land in Rochester, NY. Emma’s approach to psychotherapy in this time of pain and possibility is nurtured by several teachers: Bayo Akomolafe, Thomas Hubl, Resmaa Menakem, Joanna Macy, and her more-than-human friends.

  • Miriam Ehrlich, LMSW (she/they)

    POSTGRADUATE SOCIAL WORK FELLOW

    Miriam is a postgraduate social work fellow at Elemental Psychology.

    She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, community organizer, youth educator, and climate activist. 

    Miriam’s practice is based in recognizing the personal within the political. Using a feminist and anti-oppressive framework, she seeks to recognize and thoughtfully consider how larger systems in our world impact ourselves and our climate. 

    Miriam is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance. She holds a Shoden Reiki I Certificate from Jaya Yoga Center, along with a Certificate to work in schools. She received training from Columbia University in Motivational Interviewing. As a community activist, she is also certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid and Narcan. 

    Miriam identifies as Jewish, Queer, and white, and lives with chronic pain. She is a born and raised New Yorker living in Washington Heights on unceded Lenape land. She is a member of the community choir and can often be found at the local Pilates studio. Miriam is shaped by her ancestors, many of whom worked in therapeutic and education professions.


  • Jeremy Lehrer, LMSW

    POSTGRADUATE SOCIAL WORK FELLOW

    Jeremy is a social work fellow at Elemental Psychology.

    He is a writer, editor, writing mentor, climate justice advocate, cinephile, and mountain walker. 

    Read about his style and approach as a therapist. 

    In the sacred process of inquiry and reflection, Jeremy is an attuned and gentle presence accompanying folks during their quest to explore emotions, longings, difficulties, joys, and truths. Pairing warmth and humor, he creates a space of nourishment that fosters insight and evolution. 

    Jeremy believes that through self-compassion and understanding ourselves as we are, we create a path for love and growth. He seeks to embody presence, not perfection, building on an awareness that our strengths, (so-called) weaknesses, and flaws are doorways to greater knowing. 

    Jeremy takes inspiration from the Liberation Health modality that guides us to look at systems of power as the source of myriad challenges; further, he seeks to examine the way that we resist and internalize these systems.

    Jeremy identifies as cishet, white, Jewish, Buddhist, middle class, and able-bodied. He resides on Munsee Lenape territory and celebrates the wisdom of indigenous elders and practitioner-scholars such as Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart and Lina Sunseri.


Dr. Greene’s Education and Training

I received my doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) from Pacific University. I trained in many settings and gained expertise in several areas:

I worked with marginalized teens at Job Corps for several years where I focused on the establishment of safety, stabilization, and meeting physical and emotional needs.

I discovered a passion for working with the trans and gender diverse community while training with Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper, a pioneer and international expert in the area. My dissertation focused on the overlap between Gender Dysphoria and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

During my predoctoral internship in Anchorage, Alaska I worked with Alaska Native peoples, deepening my expertise in trauma-informed work, cultural and intergenerational patterns, and spirituality as a mode of healing.

Finally, I completed two years of postdoctoral training at Madison Park Psychological Services, one of the top therapy practices in New York City. There, I honed my approach to insight-oriented, depth psychology and worked with many ambitious and highly educated clients from all over the world.

Since opening my own practice, I have expanded my specialty areas to include comprehensive training and education in climate psychology from the Climate Psychology Alliance, as well as psychedelic preparation and integration from Awake in the Dream School and the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service.

Dr. Greene’s Certifications and Trainings

  • Deborah Hanekamp of Mama Medicine’s Apprenticeship of Original Essence, Fall 2024 and Spring 2025

  • Awake in the Dream School: Embodied Imagination for Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Fall 2024

  • International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service Psychedelic Integration Fall 2024

  • Path of the Warrior Shamanic Training Spring 2025

  • Climate Psychology Alliance Climate Cafe facilitation Training Spring 2024

  • The Arbor Legacy Program (training in spiritual leadership, ceremony, dreamwork, and constellation) 2023-2026

  • Thicket: Climate-Focused Trauma and Resiliency Training Spring 2023

  • Inaugural Introductory Course for Climate Aware Therapy Fall 2022

  • Eco- and Climate Conscious Therapy Group Fall 2022

  • SMART recovery facilitation Fall 2017

Miriam’s Education and Training

I earned my Master of Social Work degree at Columbia University, where I acquired both clinical skills as well as tools for understanding macro level disruptions in our shared society. My concentration focused on contemporary social issues, particularly around hunger and food injustice. 

I have spent over 5 years working as a climate organizer in a number of different places, including a food pantry, farmer’s market, and multiple non-profits. Additionally, I have worked with youth in a number of clinical settings, conducting intakes for families navigating the court system and play therapy for children and parents surviving interpersonal family violence. 

I earned my undergraduate degrees at SUNY New Paltz with dual majors in History and Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies. I fold this academic experience into my clinical work through an understanding of how human actions shape our history and how intersectionality impacts our experience through life.

I am now beginning my training as a postgraduate social work fellow under Dr. Ariana Greene at Elemental Psychology, focusing on climate-aware therapy and somatics. I am also deeply invested in how our sense of spirituality can affect our mental health. I am learning to facilitate climate cafes through Climate Psychology Alliance. 

Miriam’s Certifications and Trainings

CPA-NA Climate Cafe Facilitator Training; November 2025

Nature’s Blueprint, Jewish Social Justice Roundtable; Fall 2025

Space for Uprooting Whiteness, 10 sessions, Columbia University School of Social Work; September 2020-March 2021

White Supremacy in the Age of Trump, Loretta Ross; Fall 2020

Dr. Nelson’s Education and Training

I received my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rowan University. Through my graduate work I trained in several settings including college counseling, group practice, and full-model Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). I also conducted clinical research on mindfulness-based interventions for individuals and groups. My predoctoral internship at the University of Rochester helped me integrate these experiences into a relational and process-based approach to psychotherapy.

This training gave me a strong foundation in evidence-based psychotherapies, and left me wondering how Western, medicalized psychotherapy might evolve to better meet the problems of our time. I’ve addressed the latter by training in contemplative, body-based, and spiritual approaches to therapy that center collective healing from systemic, intergenerational harm. 

I am now completing my training via a postdoctoral fellowship at Elemental Psychology under Dr. Ariana Greene’s supervision. As I hone my approach to process-based therapy for diverse individuals and groups, I am also specializing in climate-inclusive psychotherapy. This includes work and study with the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA), facilitation of climate emotion support groups, and direct advocacy and activism.

Dr. Nelson’s Certifications and Trainings

  • The Ancestral Healing Code with Thomas Hubl (5 months); Spring 2025

  • CPA-NA Facilitator Deep Dive Program: A certificate program for Climate Cafe facilitators (6 months); Spring 2025

  • Resilient Activism (10 weeks); Fall 2024

  • CPA-NA Climate Cafe Facilitator Training; Spring 2024

  • Climate Conscious Therapy Training Group (Ongoing); Spring 2024

  • Climate Psychology Certificate (5 months), California Institute of Integral Studies; Fall 2023

  • Reparative Communal Consultation for White Bodies (6 months), Education for Racial Equity; Spring 2022

  • Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies; Fall 2021

  • Healing Centered Education: The Emergence of a Restorative Paradigm (6 weeks); Fall 2021

  • Koru Mindfulness Teacher Training; Summer 2018