We aim to provide accessible, quality mental health services for our Summit County community in the great outdoors.

Who we are

Kristen Greenwald

LCSW, SPT, WFR

Wild Youth Passages Clinical Director, Wild Nature Wellness Founder & Individual Therapist

I am passionate about supporting people to reach their highest potential, through transforming challenge and pain into healing, strength, and empowerment.  As humans, we tend to carry unresolved, unintegrated issues with us, blocking us from reaching our best selves and our best possible lives. As a therapist, my work is to support my clients to identify these barriers to their personal happiness, heal from that which is holding them back, and begin to actively live the life they strive for.

I work with people of all ages as I find great enjoyment working with people in various stages of life.  I serve children, teens, and adults. This includes children and adolescents experiencing trauma, depression, stress, anxiety, bereavement, eco-anxiety, climate anxiety, solastalgia (distress from environmental change), and ADHD. Part of this work often includes providing parenting support and coaching to help the child reach their highest potential and increase connectedness between children and parents/caretakers.

Additionally, I work with adults healing from complex trauma, eco-emotions, climate distress, anxiety, stress, depression, emotional regulation challenges, and barriers to actualizing their goals.

Trained in many different modalities, I use those which are most appropriate to my client.   I have speciality training in EMDR, Climate-Aware Therapy, Ecotherapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Synergetic Play Therapy, Horticultural Therapy, Experiential Therapy, Adventure-Based Therapy, and Animal-Assisted Therapy.  As an EMDR therapist, I am able to help clients reprocess difficult and traumatic memories and experiences which have resulted in maladaptive responses in the present, clearing away stress responses, negative self-cognitions, and maladaptive patterns of behavior.  As a Synergetic Play Therapist, I am able to support children and teens in working through issues, while learning to regulate their nervous system, and subsequently their bodies and emotions. While I use these modalities frequently, I also use DBT and CBT interventions in my work.  Finally, as a yoga instructor, I am passionate about the mind-body connection and integrate mindfulness and body awareness work into sessions as appropriate.

I believe in creating environments which are stress-reducing and inspiring to do this work within, and therefore specialize in creating therapeutic garden and nature settings as my “office space”, which research studies indicate are correlated with a decrease in stress hormones, depression symptoms, a sense of “getting away”, and an increase in an overall sense of wellbeing.  I strive to make these settings an option for those who prefer these environments.

Contact

Phone: (970)-368-2141

Email : kristen@wildnaturesummit.com