therapy

Offer Therapeutic Support

Offering Climate Aware Therapeutic Support

Are you a trained and qualified psychological professional such as a counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist or coach who cares deeply about the climate and ecological crisis? Are you working on your own eco-related distress and would like to offer some of your time for free to help others manage theirs? Do you have the capacity for the deep listening, support and validation that is desperately needed?

CPA has a Directory of Therapeutic Support Practitioners who offer up to three free sessions. This is offered to anyone over the age of 18 who is experiencing eco-related distress, including that arising from eco-activism or work in the climate field. Many Practitioners on the Directory also offer this support to people who have been arrested or imprisoned for climate activism.

The aim of Climate Aware Therapeutic Support

  • Offering a listening and holding space for people to talk about their eco-related distress. This might include alienation from family and friends, talk of elective childlessness and suicidal ideation;
  • Validating people’s responses to the Climate emergency, whatever they might be;
  • Talking through people’s experience of climate activism and any related arrests/ imprisonment;
  • Helping people to understand complex individual and cultural responses as the crisis unfolds and we face into the unthinkable;
  • Collaborating with people to develop resilience, so that they can contribute to sustainable communities and prepare for change;
  • Signposting to other services or ongoing counselling.

How to join

To join the CPA Climate Aware Therapeutic Support Directory you must be a qualified and registered psychological professional with professional indemnity insurance. You must also be a member of the CPA.  Click here to join. You can either pay the full fee or, if this is uncomfortable for you or you are joining predominantly to join the Therapeutic Support Directory, you can opt to pay the reduced fee. We particularly welcome TS Practitioners from minority and under-represented backgrounds and if you identify as a person of colour we can, if you wish, put you in touch with the CPA Affinity Group for BIPoC members who meet monthly for support and to work on ideas for in-reach and outreach projects.

Once you are a CPA member, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and you will be sent a link to a joining form where you can fill in 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 TS Directory and people will then be able to contact you directly.

Please note that, before joining, we will ask you to provide details of your engagement with your own process connected with the climate and ecological crisis and any relevant trainings undertaken. We actively encourage you to continue such engagement and training once you have joined the TS Directory. 

Once you have joined the TS Directory

You will be sent an introduction pack with helpful information and tips about what Therapeutic Support is in practice. Please note that CPA is not operating a counselling service or promoting individual practitioners. We simply operate a Directory of climate aware Practitioners who offer the free sessions of Therapeutic Support.  CPA does not guarantee that individual TS Practitioners will be contacted for Therapeutic Support. 

If you have any questions do This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Browse our website if you are new to CPA and want to know more.Check out our Podcasts and useful links and resources here and details of recent publications and research.

membership

Become a Member

We warmly welcome anyone interested in exploring the psychological aspects of the climate and ecological emergency to join us.

What does membership mean?

The Climate Psychology Alliance is a Community Benefit Society, so by signing up as a member you automatically become a co-owner of the organisation. Participation is key so we welcome active involvement and would love to hear what you would like to contribute - which can be as much or as little as you want.

Individual membership of £54.00 a year (standard rate), £9.60 a year (concessionary rate*), or £84.00 a year (generous rate) brings a number of benefits:

  • immediate access to our online community platform where you can browse groups and events, connect with other members and have discussions;
  • access to regular members-only events, including a monthly Zoom meeting for new members;
  • access to regular meetings with the BIPoC Group - this group is private for those that have affinity with it; 
  • an open invitation to join one of our working groups, or set up a new one;
  • a monthly email update of CPA news and links to events relevant to climate psychology;
  • the right to vote at our AGM and stand for our Board.

*Our concessionary rate is for those on low incomes; students under 25; those who are joining in order to offer three free sessions (climatepsychologyalliance.org) of Therapeutic Support to people struggling with their feelings about the climate crisis.

We encourage you to have a look at Our Values before signing up.

Please note that membership is automatically renewed. However, you can cancel your membership at any time. If you would like the Climate Psychology Alliance to do this for you, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

 

How to Join

Follow this link to request membership. You will be asked to provide your contact details and we will then send you an email inviting you to pay via our new community platform. Payments are processed safely and securely via Stripe. Please look out for the email and check your spam folder if it does not arrive.

If you are based in Scotland and would like to be considered for a CPA Scotland membership, please ensure that you provide your full postal address. This will ensure you are sent details of all our Scottish based events. 

If you are based in North America you may wish to join our partner organisation CPA-NA. Follow this link.

We never share your details. (See our Privacy Policy).

Organisational Membership

We can also offer organisational membership where appropriate, particularly for small organisations with members who might not otherwise be able to join. If you are an organisation interested in joining CPA or working with us, please get in contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or our contact form to begin a conversation.

mailboxes

Subscribe

We’d love to keep in touch with you and invite you to be one of the 2400+ people who are currently on our monthly free mailing list.

Subscribers receive our monthly Climate Crisis Digest by email: reflective writing, on current climate crisis news and developments seen through a climate psychology lens. 

Tagged on to the Digest you will find a few events that may be of interest and CPA news.

We will occasionally send you invitations to specific events but we promise not to bombard you with email nor share your details. See our Privacy Policy.

Don’t forget you can also become a member. 

If you have any questions about joining the mailing list contact us.

flower

Donate

If you recognise the need for psychological understanding and support surrounding the climate and ecological crisis, and feel that we are doing valuable work, please consider contributing with a donation. You can make either a one-off or recurring donation which can be as little or as much as you are comfortable with. 

This may go towards subsidising places on our Climate Café training workshops, helping us to maintain our website or funding places on our workshops for young people - or any other costs associated with our work.

To donate click on the button below. Thank you.

Checkout

About Us

We are a diverse community of therapeutic practitioners, thinkers, researchers, artists and others. We believe that attending to the psychology and emotions of the climate and ecological crisis is at the heart of our work.

Let’s Connect

Get Involved

Digest

Stay up to date with all the latest news and events from CPA.