Meet the Team
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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 is currently in the Path of the Warrior program at The Sanctuary. She is a graduate of Awake in the Dream School’s certification program for psychedelic integration.
Ariana identifies as queer, Jewish, cis, white, and able-bodied. She currently resides on unceded Abenaki land also known as Burlington, Vermont. 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.
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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.
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
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
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