Linda Aspey explores why the therapyprofessions are still so silent on climate change
The big issue: Breaking out of the climate bubble
2021
Linda Aspey explores why the therapyprofessions are still so silent on climate change
Linda Aspey
I love being a part of CPA because of the people, our values, our work, and our supportive culture. I have a few roles which allow me to do what I love: building communities; developing relationships - internally and externally; designing and delivering talks and workshops; developing others to do this work, and doing occasional media work. This includes co-leading CCLC facilitator training and supervision, co-ordinating talks and workshops, and leading CPA’s “Collapse Conversations" group which I started in 2025. I also support clients in bringing climate psychology deep into their culture to build collective resilience. In 2025 I became Psychology Adviser to the National Emergency Briefing (NEB) leadership team, and built the CPA/NEB partnership, workshops and training materials to support the roll out of the People’s Emergency Briefings and widen CPA’s impact. Outside of work I still work! I host a monthly People Planet Pint group, facilitate for other local eco groups, write for the local newspaper, am a member of the Town Council's Climate and Ecology Working Group, and offer emotional support for activist groups and individuals. My pure relaxation time is spent going to festivals, live gigs, the theatre, enjoying all kinds of arts, and walking in the Cotswolds where I currently live.
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Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Traumatology
ABSTRACT: The disarmingly innocuous term 'climate change' expresses a psychosocial defense mechanism that prompts us to recoil when we consider the implications of climate science. When viewed honestly through the lens of traumatology, this deepening existential crisis presents an entirely new, unprecedented, and higher-order category of trauma: Climate Trauma. What is unique about this category of trauma is that it is an ever-present, ever-growing threat to the biosphere, one that calls into question our shared identity: what does it mean to be 'human' in the Anthropocene? Because it is superordinate, Climate Trauma is continually triggering all past traumas - personal, cultural, and intergenerational - and will continue to do so until such time as it is acknowledged.
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