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Are you a qualified psychological professional who cares deeply about the climate and ecological crisis? Are you working on your own eco-related distress and ready to offer some of your time to help others manage theirs? CPA's Therapeutic Support Directory connects climate-aware practitioners with people who need exactly what you have to offer.
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Practitioners on the directory offer up to three free sessions to anyone aged 18 or over experiencing eco-related distress.
This includes people navigating climate grief, eco-anxiety, the emotional toll of climate activism, and the experience of being arrested or imprisoned for climate activism.
Offer a listening and holding space for people to talk about their eco-related distress, including alienation from family and friends, talk of elective childlessness, and suicidal ideation
Validate people's responses to the climate emergency, whatever they might be
Talk through people's experience of climate activism and any related arrests or imprisonment
Help people understand complex individual and cultural responses as the crisis unfolds
Collaborate with people to develop resilience so they can contribute to sustainable communities and prepare for change
Signpost to other services or ongoing counselling where appropriate
To join the CPA Therapeutic Support Directory you must be a mental health professional such as a counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, with current membership of your registering organisation and professional indemnity insurance.You must also be a CPA member.
You can join CPA at the full membership rate, or at the reduced rate if cost is a barrier or if you are joining primarily to offer therapeutic support through the directory. We particularly welcome practitioners from minority and under-represented backgrounds. If you identify as a person of colour, we can connect you with the CPA Affinity Group for BIPoC members, who meet monthly for peer support and to develop ideas for in-reach and outreach projects.
Once you are a CPA member, email support@climatepsychologyalliance.org to request a joining form. You'll be asked for your practice details, areas of interest, and a short bio, including a link to your website if you have one. This will be posted on the directory so people can contact you directly.
When you donate, partner, volunteer, or become a member, you're not just supporting an organisation. You're helping protect the spaces where people are doing some of the hardest emotional work of this generation. You're helping a young person find their first community of climate-aware peers. You're helping a therapist sit more steadily with a client who can't sleep for fear of what's coming. You're helping a researcher publish work that shifts the field. The difference is concrete.
You'll receive an introduction pack with helpful information and tips about what therapeutic support looks like in practice. Please note that CPA is not operating a counselling service or promoting individual practitioners. We operate a directory of climate-aware practitioners who offer free sessions, and we cannot guarantee that individual practitioners will be contacted for therapeutic support.
Any questions? Get in touch at support@climatepsychologyalliance.org.
