A community built by its members

Everything here is by members, for members. Together we share conversations, contribute research, run events, and care for each other through difficult truths. It's intergenerational, justice-centred, and grounded in honesty, trust, care, and respect.

Meet the community

A short introduction to CPA from the members who make it.

Why become a member?

When you join CPA, you step into a community where your climate feelings, your professional questions, and your creative responses are all welcome. You'll find people working at the leading edge of climate psychology, and people just beginning their journey. You'll find depth, warmth, and the kind of honest conversations that are rare in other spaces.

What membership brings

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  • Access to CPA's online Community Hub - browse groups, topics, and events, share your work and connect with other members

  • Regular member events such as ‘Thinking Space’ meetings where any member can share emerging ideas and research, and ‘Collapse Conversations’, sessions exploring ecological collapse and the implications for adaptation

  • Peer supervision meetings for members offering climate-aware therapeutic support and Climate Café Listening Circles

  • Opportunity to write for Explorations in Climate Psychology (CPA's bi-annual journal), contribute to the Climate Psychology Literature Repository, and the monthly Climate Crisis Digest

  • Open invitation to join any of CPA's working groups e.g. young members, decolonising and antiracism, Explorations editorial, Climate Café Listening Circle facilitators, and more - or start new ones

  • Discounted access to public events, trainings, and initiatives

  • Monthly members’ email of news, events and opportunities

  • Democratic governance rights: attend Board meetings, vote at the AGM, and stand for the Board of Directors

  • Co-ownership of CPA as a Charitable Community Benefit Society

  • A genuinely interdisciplinary network spanning therapists, psychologists, researchers, artists, activists, writers, coaches and students

Young people are central to this community

Climate psychology needs young voices at the table. Within CPA there is a dedicated Student and Young Members Group for people aged 16 to 30 and students, with reduced membership rates, peer support, intergenerational connection, and events shaped by and for young people. If you're a young person drawn to this work, this is your space.

Find out more about membership for students and young people
Membership options

Four tiers, based on what's fair and affordable for you

Four tiers, based on what's fair and affordable for you. CPA uses a self-selected sliding scale. You decide which tier fits your situation

£84
per year

Pay forward rate

For those who can give more Expanded state reveals:

The Pay Forward Rate (£7 per month) is for those who are financially secure. If you own your home, have savings, invest, or have disposable income beyond your everyday needs, paying this rate helps subsidise a place for someone who couldn't otherwise afford to attend.

£54
per year

Standard Rate

For most members Expanded state reveals:

The Pay Forward Rate (£7 per month) is for those who are financially secure. If you own your home, have savings, invest, or have disposable income beyond your everyday needs, paying this rate helps subsidise a place for someone who couldn't otherwise afford to attend.

£9.60
per year

Reduced Rate

For those facing financial hardship:

The Pay Forward Rate (£7 per month) is for those who are financially secure. If you own your home, have savings, invest, or have disposable income beyond your everyday needs, paying this rate helps subsidise a place for someone who couldn't otherwise afford to attend.

£5.00
per year

Students and young people age 16-25

For low income, students, and young members Expanded state reveals:

The Pay Forward Rate (£7 per month) is for those who are financially secure. If you own your home, have savings, invest, or have disposable income beyond your everyday needs, paying this rate helps subsidise a place for someone who couldn't otherwise afford to attend.

If you're based in North America: You may wish to join our partner organisation

Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

How to join, step by step

Joining CPA is simple. Here's what happens after you sign up.

1

Choose your tier and join

Pick the membership tier that fits your situation and join via the button linked below.

2

Pay securely via Stripe

We'll send you an email with a link to pay via our online community platform. Payments are processed safely and securely via Stripe.

3

Join the community platform

Once your membership is confirmed, you'll get access to CPA's online Community Hub. This is where members connect, post, discuss, and share.

4

Come to a new member welcome meeting

We run regular online meetings for new members to get oriented, meet people, and find theirway in.

5

Get involved

Join groups, discussions, events - and maybe run your own. How you participate in the community is up to you.

What's coming up for members

A preview of upcoming member-only events. You need to be signed in to book.

Working group

New member welcome Zoom

Thursday, May 21, 2026
Online
Members sign in
Peer supervision

Peer supervision for therapeutic support practitioners

Monday, May 11, 2026
Online
Members sign in
Thinking Space

Emerging research on climate grief

Thursday, April 23, 2026
Online
Members sign in
See all member events

CPA also has an active community of researchers, writers, and thinkers contributing to Explorations and CPA's other publications. Explore Research and Resources

Testimonials

What people say about membership

"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

Join the community

Whether you're a seasoned practitioner, a student just starting out, a researcher, an artist, or simply someone drawn to this work, you're welcome here. Come and join us.

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Another Way

UK-based youth research and campaigning organisation. Surveyed 1,400 students aged 11-18 across the UK, finding climate change remains a major concern but many young people hold back from taking action for fear of peer reaction or lack of school support; calls for climate education embedded across the curriculum and greater school support for student-led environmental action.

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Climate Mental Health Network

US-based network producing reports and guidelines on climate mental health informed by work with young people and their educators.

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Climate Child Protection

Campaigns to have the climate crisis properly regarded as a safeguarding issue; provides resources for professionals and parents supporting children with the psychological impacts of climate breakdown.

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What Is It Like Working in Organisations That Engage the Public on Climate Change? (New Associations, Issue 29: Climate Change Special Issue, Article 2)

Part of the British Psychoanalytic Council's climate change special issue, exploring the emotional and organisational dynamics facing people who work in organisations engaging the public on climate change.

2019
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Unequal effects of climate change and pre-existing inequalities on the mental health of global populations

ABSTRACT (Open Access, CC BY 4.0): Climate change is already having unequal effects on the mental health of individuals and communities and will increasingly compound pre-existing mental health inequalities globally. Psychiatrists have a vital part to play in improving both awareness and scientific understanding of structural mechanisms that perpetuate these inequalities, and in responding to global calls for action to promote climate justice and resilience, which are central foundations for good mental and physical health. The authors highlight the interconnectedness of inequality, climate and ecological destruction, and adverse mental health outcomes, and propose a model for mental health practice and research that promotes climate justice and resilience.

2021
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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.

2019
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