Facing the climate crisis with support, insight and community
Meet some of the people who make up the Climate Psychology Alliance, and hear what brought them here.
How are you holding the weight of it all?
Climate Psychology Alliance is a UK community exploring the emotional, relational, and psychological dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis. Whether you're looking for support, connection, or a place to think honestly about what's happening, you're welcome here.
Climate Psychology Alliance is a UK community exploring the emotional, relational, and psychological dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis. Whether you're looking for support, connection, or a place to think honestly about what's happening, you're welcome here.
“Climate psychology indicates a new way of imagining our internal worlds in all our connectedness and interdependence with the vital forces, the animate objects, the creatures with whom we share habitats.”
Hoggett et al, 2022
“Climate psychology explores current existential anxiety and its associated defences, the ways old beliefs can be relinquished, and the ways we can open up to new ones.”
Hoggett et al, 2022
“I think that in getting lost, in slowing down, the whole glimpses itself. Touches itself.“
Bayo Akomolafe
The crisis isn't only out there
It's in the grief, anxiety, anger, and love we feel as the world changes around us. Climate psychology takes those feelings seriously. Drawing on psychotherapeutic practice, research, and creative work, we ask: how do we face difficult truths together, and how do we live, relate, and build resilience as we adapt to an uncertain future?
What are you looking for?
Wherever you're starting from, there's a way in.
Find support
Climate cafés, therapeutic support, parent circles, group sessions, and more. Wherever you are with it, you are warmly welcome.
Support for young people
Workshops, peer spaces, and community for young people living in a time of climate and ecological crisis.
Find out about membership
A home for therapeutic and creative practitioners, researchers, students, activists, and anyone drawn to this work.
Delve into our research and resources
Explore the ideas, research, and thinking at the heart of what we do.
Bring climate psychology to your organisation
Talks, training, and consultancy for teams, institutions, and grassroots groups.
Support our work
There are many ways to help. Donate, volunteer, or partner with us to support more people navigating the climate and ecological crisis.
The climate crisis is not a standalone event
It's inseparable from the histories of racism, colonialism, and extraction that shape the world we live in. Facing that honestly is part of the work. At CPA, justice isn't a separate pillar or a line in a values statement. It's woven through everything we do, from the spaces we offer to the conversations we have with ourselves.
We believe climate psychology has to reckon with who has been harmed, who has been heard, and whose futures are being protected. That means showing up for intergenerational justice, centring voices too often excluded, and doing the slow, uncomfortable but essential work of unlearning together.
News
News from our community
Reflections, announcements, and voices from across CPA.
Newsletters
Date
March 1, 2022
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Climate Crisis Digest March 2022: Staying with the Trouble
Poet and psychologist Steve Benson offers a candid, personal meditation on mindfulness, grief and 'both-and' thinking as ways of staying present with the climate emergency without being overwhelmed by it.
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Have You Seen
CPA, Mind and UEA in partnership for new project
February 21, 2022
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CPA, Mind and UEA in partnership for new project
A new partnership between UEA, mental health charity Mind and CPA – called sUStain – trains counsellors and students to run climate cafés supporting students with climate anxiety.
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Newsletters
Climate Crisis Digest Feb 2022: Covid, vaccination and climate anxiety
February 1, 2022
9
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Climate Crisis Digest Feb 2022: Covid, vaccination and climate anxiety
Wendy Hollway argues that the global North's intense focus on Covid-19 vaccination is partly an unconscious displacement of climate anxiety, and questions the psycho-social roots of vaccine polarisation.
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A community, not a service
CPA isn't a service you subscribe to. It's a community you shape. Our members, from seasoned practitioners to students just finding their footing, facilitate the conversations, run the groups, write the research, and care for one another through it all.
It's intergenerational. And it's grounded in a culture of care, where showing up looks different for everyone and contribution matters more than credentials.
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Building the UK's first community of practice for inner climate work
The Inner Climate Response Alliance (ICRA) is a National Lottery-funded partnership between the Climate Psychology Alliance, the Mindfulness Initiative, and the Climate Majority Project. Together, we're creating a UK-wide network for anyone exploring the inner dimensions of the climate crisis, bringing together emotional resilience and contemplative practices, climate action and community cohesion.
Our journal
Explorations in Climate Psychology.
A leading international journal bringing together essays, research, and creative work from thinkers, practitioners, and writers engaging with the climate and ecological crisis.
Explorations: a journal of climate psychology
Latest issue: heavy weather: exploring reactionary states of mind
A journal of climate psychology
Testimonials
Voices from the community
"We funded CPA's youth programme through our family foundation because we believe young people deserve spaces where their climate feelings are taken seriously. The work CPA is doing is irreplaceable, and we're proud to support it."
Funder
"Thank you so much for facilitating this space. It is very deeply appreciated and has nourished a space for processing the tucked-away pain of traumatic experiences from different points of my climate activism journey, as well as nurtured a sense of social connection to comrades and fellow human beings; from strangers to friends."
Retreat participant
“I felt like I was listened to and encouraged to express my feelings, regardless of what they were”
Support Space for Young Adults participant
"It was a good balance of information, practical tools, advice & reflection/sharing space. I liked having the wellbeing exercises to do in the session, as I often struggle to get myself to do them on my own, and to have someone guide with that. - Deep Resilience for a World in Crisis workshop participant "
Deep Resilience for a World in Crisis workshop participant
"I'm extremely grateful for the weekend. This..held space for grief and healing is exactly what is needed in activism, and I wish for a world where everyone has access to beautiful support like this. Thank you for a wonderful and restorative experience."
Youth Retreat participant
"As a therapist, CPA has been the professional home I didn't realise I needed. It's where I do my deepest thinking."
CPA member and practitioner
"I came looking for support and found a community. CPA gave me language for feelings I didn't know how to name."
Climate café participant
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