Evergreen Counseling

06/04/2026

We're growing, and we're looking for a First Responder Program Lead to join our team.

Supporting first responders is some of the most meaningful—and demanding—work a clinician can do.

At Evergreen Counseling, we've intentionally built a practice where clinicians are supported in doing that work without feeling isolated or overwhelmed. We value consultation, collaboration, ongoing learning, and thoughtful clinical practice rooted in both science and human connection.

We're seeking a licensed LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, or Clinical Psychologist with significant experience working with first responders, including firefighters, EMS personnel, law enforcement, military populations, or similarly high-stress professional groups.

This unique role combines direct clinical care with leadership responsibilities, including consultation, training, outreach, and program development as we continue to expand our First Responder Program and our partnership with the Oakland Fire Department.

At Evergreen, you'll find:

- Ongoing consultation and support
- A collaborative and relational practice culture
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Meaningful work supporting first responders
- Leadership and program development opportunities
- Leadership that genuinely values both clinicians and client care

📍 Berkeley / Oakland, California

To learn more and apply, please visit: https://evergreencounseling.com/jobs/first-responder-program-lead/

We believe great clinicians often find their way to practices through trusted colleagues. If someone comes to mind, we'd be grateful if you'd share this opportunity."

06/03/2026

For a lot of high achievers, self-worth gets tied to productivity, performance, and keeping it all together. That's rarely a personal flaw. It usually goes back to early experiences that taught you love had to be earned.

Your whole self is worthy of celebration, including the parts you've spent years trying to outrun.

At Evergreen Counseling, our therapists help you get to the root of where those beliefs came from and build a steadier, more compassionate sense of who you are.

Schedule a complimentary consultation today. https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

06/02/2026

We're growing, and we're looking for an EMDR-trained clinician to join our team.
Trauma therapy is some of the most meaningful—and demanding—work a clinician can do.

At Evergreen Counseling, we've intentionally built a practice where trauma therapists are supported in doing that work without feeling isolated or overwhelmed. We value consultation, collaboration, ongoing learning, and thoughtful clinical practice rooted in both science and human connection.

We're seeking a licensed LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, or Clinical Psychologist with EMDR training and experience who is passionate about trauma treatment and interested in becoming part of a deeply trauma-informed clinical community.

At Evergreen, you'll find:
- Ongoing consultation and support
- A collaborative and relational practice culture
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Engaged and motivated clients
- Leadership that genuinely values both clinicians and client care

Berkeley, California

To learn more and apply, please visit: https://evergreencounseling.com/jobs/emdr-trained-clinician/

We believe great clinicians often find their way to practices through trusted colleagues. If someone comes to mind, we'd be grateful if you'd share this opportunity.

06/01/2026

Parenting is neurobiologically demanding, and yet the weight of that reality is rarely named.

The emotional labor of raising children activates the same stress-response systems shaped by *your* early attachment experiences. When those systems are dysregulated, the gap between the parent you intend to be and the one who shows up in hard moments can feel devastating.

At Evergreen Counseling, our trauma-trained therapists use evidence-based modalities including EMDR, IFS, and somatic therapy to help parents interrupt intergenerational patterns and parent from a more regulated, grounded place.

Meaningful change is possible. Schedule a complimentary consultation today. https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

05/29/2026

Chronic muscle tension. Racing thoughts that resist logic. Disrupted sleep despite genuine exhaustion. For high-functioning individuals, these are not personality traits or the inevitable cost of ambition. They are measurable symptoms of a nervous system operating in sustained threat-detection mode.

The distinction matters clinically. Anxiety rooted in unresolved trauma responds differently than generalized stress, and treating one as the other is precisely why so many intelligent, self-aware people remain stuck despite years of effortful self-management.

At Evergreen Counseling, our trauma-trained clinicians assess anxiety at its neurobiological source.

Through targeted interventions including EMDR, somatic therapy, and trauma-informed CBT, we work to recalibrate dysregulated stress-response patterns, improving sleep, emotional regulation, and daily functioning in ways that self-awareness alone cannot achieve.

You deserve more than coping strategies.

Book a complimentary consultation call: https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

Evergreen Counseling offers compassionate, expert therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Our supportive, confidential environment helps you navigate life's challenges and foster personal growth. Begin your path to healing today.

05/26/2026

Grief rarely follows a clean or linear course.

For many, commemorative days like Memorial Day activate something more complex than sadness a layered neurobiological response that can resurface loss, moral injury, and unprocessed trauma in ways that feel disproportionate, disorienting, or difficult to name.

This is not weakness. It is the nervous system doing precisely what it was designed to do: hold what has not yet been fully processed.

At Evergreen Counseling, we work with individuals navigating grief, military and combat trauma, and the particular psychological weight of loving someone shaped by service and sacrifice.

Through evidence-based modalities including EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy, we help clients move through unresolved loss toward integration rather than avoidance.

Today, we honor those we have lost. And we hold space for those still carrying them.

Book a complimentary consultation call. https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

05/23/2026

Many high-achieving individuals discount their own histories because the events themselves don't seem significant enough.

No single catastrophe. No obvious crisis. And yet the nervous system responded, adapted, and reorganized itself around those experiences regardless.

As physician and trauma researcher Gabor Maté observes, trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside you as a result.

This distinction is clinically important. It shifts the focus from the event to the internal landscape it created, and toward the dysregulated stress responses, collapsed boundaries, and relational adaptations still operating today.

At Evergreen Counseling, we work at precisely that internal level. Through EMDR, somatic therapy, and IFS, our clinicians address the neurobiological imprint, not just the narrative.

Book a complimentary consultation call. https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

05/21/2026

For many self-reliant, analytically minded individuals, the greatest barrier to therapy is not skepticism about its efficacy.

It is the vulnerability of being known, specifically, the fear that full disclosure will be met with judgment, oversimplification, or a framework that doesn't account for the complexity of their actual experience.

Ari Costello, Ph.D. PSY, #30470; TPPY2832, speaks directly to that hesitation: while she understands that opening up to a professional is not easy, she genuinely values learning the full depth of each client's experience, hopes, and goals before determining how to best support them.

That orientation is itself clinically significant. Research consistently demonstrates that collaborative goal-setting and felt attunement are foundational predictors of therapeutic outcomes.

Through EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and DBT, Ari works with trauma, OCD, grief, and relational complexity with precision and care.

Book a complimentary consultation call with Ari. https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

05/20/2026

For many discerning individuals, the barrier to starting therapy is not reluctance. It is the overwhelming, under-discussed complexity of finding the right fit. The therapeutic relationship is not incidental to outcomes.

Research consistently identifies it as one of the strongest predictors of clinical success.

Which means that who you work with matters as much as the work itself.

At Evergreen Counseling, we built our concierge matching process around precisely this evidence.

Our Clinical Intake Coordinator evaluates presenting concerns, therapeutic goals, temperament, and logistical needs to match each client with the clinician best positioned to support meaningful, sustained change. Over 99% of placed clients remain with their matched therapist.

You do not have to navigate this alone or inefficiently.

Book a complimentary concierge matching call: https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling

05/20/2026

Trauma does not always announce itself.

For many high-achieving individuals, it lives quietly in the nervous system as chronic vigilance, difficulty trusting, or a persistent sense that ease and connection are just slightly out of reach.

Meet Ari Costello, Ph.D. PSY, #30470; TPPY2832, clinical psychologist at Evergreen Counseling.

With doctoral training from Penn State, a fellowship in military and combat trauma through the VA Healthcare System, and advanced certification in EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy, Ari brings exceptional clinical depth to complex trauma, OCD, grief, and relational strain.

Her approach is precise, evidence-driven, and genuinely collaborative, oriented toward measurable, sustained change rather than symptom management alone.

Book a complimentary consultation call with Ari. https://taplink.cc/theevergreencounseling