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Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India
Suicide is a stark indicator of human hardship, yet the causes of these deaths remain understudied, particularly in developing countries. This analysis of India, where one fifth of the world’s suicides occur, demonstrates that the climate, particularly temperature, has strong influence over a growing suicide epidemic. With 47 y of suicide records and climate data, I show that high temperatures increase suicide rates, but only during India’s growing season, when heat also reduces crop yields. My results are consistent with widely cited theories of economic suicide in India. Moreover, these findings have important implications for future climate change; I estimate that warming temperature trends over the last three decades have already been responsible for over 59,000 suicides throughout India.
Compassion-focused approaches to understanding the mental health of climate scientists
As we face a future of rising global temperatures, and associated extreme weather events, distressing emotional responses are understandable. Climate scientists comprise a unique group, in that they must regularly confront the reality, and consequences, of climate change. In this paper, we explore how the principles of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) might be applied to comprehend the responses of climate scientists to climate change; by doing so, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of these responses in order to consider fruitful avenues for providing support and investigating this area further.
What happens in Climate Cafes? The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 17
As humanity faces a future of rising global temperatures, and associated extreme weather events, distressing emotional responses are understandable, but often silenced. Climate Cafés are unique, dedicated spaces where such responses can be shared and validated with others. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with attendees of Climate Cafés facilitated by the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA). An initial interview of 45 minutes was followed by a shorter follow-up interview 3 months later. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) methodology was used with seven female participants. Four superordinate themes were identified: (1) Having a keen awareness of threats to planetary health, (2) Action taken in the face of climate change, (3) Journeying from isolation to connection, and (4) Legacy of Climate Cafés.
Voice 12: How Does Climate Breakdown Make Me Feel?
The deep sense of injustice. A darkness, a dread. Lost. Mad and alone.'
Mourning Earth: Ritual Expressions of Ecological Grief
This thesis considers the potential of grief and mourning to foster meaningful engagement with global ecological crises. I explore this potential through my own studio practice, positioning artworks and creative processes as vehicles for articulating collective experiences of loss, anxiety, and bereavement. To create these artworks, I draw from scientific knowledge, regional folkways, geologic history, and intergenerational experience with an emphasis on local culture.
'Ways of Being' When Facing Difficult Truths: Exploring the Contribution of Climate Cafes to Climate Crisis Awareness
A climate cafe is a hospitable and empathic space where anxiety about the current crisis can be safely expressed and people can engage with difficult truths while staying connected and grounded. With emotionally containing structures in place, climate cafes allow participants to explore anger, helplessness, sadness, grief and depression without dissociating, numbing or going into blind panic, offering relief and a powerful sense of connection.
Ecological Grief, Hope, and Creative Forms of Resilience: A Creative Practice Approach
With the effects of the climate emergency increasingly shaping our daily lives, feelings of ecological distress – particularly ecogrief and anxiety – have become palpable. In this article, we focus on these affective responses and examine how creative practice collaborations are curating possibilities for hope and resilience. We argue for the importance of such creative engagement, as ecological distress can lead to paralysis, nihilism, or despair, making it imperative to explore how creative practices open pathways for collective healing and actionable hope in the face of crisis.
Voice 10: Saving Our Children by Bringing Back Beavers
We are at such a pivotal moment in human existence that you cannot separate the holistic context of climate breakdown and the loss of human habitat from the psychotherapeutic treatment of anyone remotely aware of the climate emergency. What it means to be human and our relationship with other life is changing.
No climate change salience in Lofoten fisheries? Climatic Change, 144(4), 565-572
In a recent article on climate change and recognition of the need for adaptation, Dannevig and Hovelsrud (Clim Chang 135:261–275, 2016) conclude that climate change is not salient in fisheries on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway. This commentary scrutinizes this conclusion. Empirical findings rather indicate that the Lofoten fishers do indeed frame climate change as a problem and acknowledge the need for adaptive response; however, mental barriers are likely to mask existing climate change salience. Based on the authors’ line of argument and insights from psychology, this contribution aims to extend their debate and stimulate discussion by drawing attention to the impacts of mental barriers. A particular focus is thereby laid on the role of cognitive dissonance and hard-wired emotions.
Tackling climate inaction: How a social identity approach matters to climate communication
We have reached a point where it is impossible to ignore climate change and its impacts - but this does not necessarily imply people are ready to act. As recent research shows, even when people are well-informed about climate change, appraise it as a current, visible, local and personal threat and express concern, their response in terms of facing challenges head on and translating their concern into climate-mitigative, adaptive and transformative behaviour seems restricted.How does this knowledge-action gap arise? Also, it is striking that people who initially state that they do not worry about climate change, later seemingly contradict themselves by saying the opposite: "I am extremely worried." Why is that?
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an inevitable near term social collapse due to climate change. The approach of the paper is to analyse recent studies on climate change and its implications for our ecosystems, economies and societies, as provided by academic journals and publications direct from research institutes. That synthesis leads to a conclusion there will be a near term collapse in society with serious ramifications for the lives of readers. The paper reviews some of the reasons why collapse-denial may exist, in particular, in the professions of sustainability research and practice, therefore leading to these arguments having been absent from these fields until now. The paper offers a new meta-framing of the implications for research, organisational practice, personal development and public policy, called the Deep Adaptation Agenda. Its key aspects of resilience, relinquishment and restorations are explained.
The responsibility of communicating difficult truths about climate influenced societal disruption and collapse
This paper presents a review of psychology research that can help people begin to assess the different ways they can responsibly support each other to talk about their thoughts and feelings on their perceptions of societal disruption and collapse, at home and abroad, due to environmental and climate change. It includes a summary of a review of published studies in psychology on matters of anticipating difficult futures, including vulnerability, disruption, disaster, suffering and mortality. The claims by both specialists and non-specialists that collapse anticipation is necessarily harmful to mental health and social engagement is shown to be theoretically and empirically weak. Instead, the research that suggests we engage each other on this upsetting topic to promote coping.
Trauma, fragmentation and narrative: Sandor Ferenczi's relevance for psychoanalytical perspectives on our response to climate change and environmental destruction
Psychoanalytical perspectives on our responses to climate change and environmental destruction may be said to have begun with Harold Searles in 1972 and have gathered pace in recent years. All these explorations have in common a reliance on a set of conceptual ideas that were initially developed by Sandor Ferenczi, although he is rarely credited. Fully acknowledging of the extent of environmental destruction and climate change is seen as traumatic in these writings, and therefore, concepts that have been developed in working with patients traumatized by abuse have been found essential in trying to understand and describe our responses. This paper will show how Ferenczi's thinking about trauma and about the therapeutic relationship has influenced recent suggestions as to how a psychoanalytical perspective may help us to explore attitudes and beliefs and help others to fully acknowledge the seriousness of climate change and so change damaging behaviors.
How Wide is the Field? Psychotherapy, Capitalism and the More Than Human World
Climate change is no longer a hypothetical argument but a reality that threatens the existence of human and other-than-human life on the planet. With that information in mind, can we afford to keep practising psychotherapy with a focus on the individual and their personal needs, or do we need to radically question the role of psychotherapy in its lack of relationship to the more-than-human world?
Is there a therapy for climate change anxiety? Therapy Today
Is there a therapy for climate-change anxiety?Steffi Bednarek calls for a collective response to a global ecological disaster
What Children Want Us to Know About Climate Change
Climate change can feel overwhelming. As we head up to Earth Day, some young people tell us how climate change makes them feel - and explore the best way to talk about it. Brief BBC animation featuring children's own perspectives on climate change, stemming from CPA member Caroline Hickman's research, offering guidance for having conversations with children.
Voice 11: Wings of Hope
A wildlife photographer describes discovering barn owls in a field behind his house, and the patience involved in capturing a single photograph over 20 nights of watching.
'Climate Mania'
This chapter offers a single clinical case study of what is described as 'climate mania', drawing on Lacanian theory to detail how climate change was central to the client's manic-depressive experience. It discusses how biomedical approaches to manic responses to climate threats can foreclose a person's sense of subjectivity in relation to the crisis, and indicates the need for further research into the intersections between climate change and extreme states such as mania and psychosis.
'Nothing green can grow without being on the land'
Extractive industries have a deleterious impact on social ecologies. Mining is one of South Africa's main industries, and communities' resistance takes place in these extractive zones. This qualitative case study aims to explore and describe mine-affected community members' psychological reactions and community responses to land and environmental injustices in the mining community of Rustenburg, South Africa. D
Voice 2: It's Hot as Fuck and I Need to Rest My Eyes
A short reflection on a painting made during a heatwave: 'Climate anxiety was making me feel like I was being swallowed by tar. This is the only way I know how to climb out.'
A Critical Reading of Solastalgia Through Indigenous and Care Ethics Lenses
Solastalgia is the emotional response elicited by ecological degradation, originating from the concepts of solace, desolation, and pain. Climate change has profound societal and health impacts especially for marginalised communities who face food shortages, poverty and forced displacement. Indigenous peoples have deep relational ancestral connections with the land that are beyond connection to place, and experience unique intensified forms of distress resulting from environmental degradation. For Indigenous peoples, connections with land are disrupted through extractive politics such as colonisation and now climate emergency, legacies that leave deleterious effects on wellbeing. In collective Indigenous cultures, distress is embedded within wider contexts of community, history, and the earth itself. This paper critically reviews solastalgia from Māori and care ethics perspectives to demonstrate the power of adding relational, contextual, and embodied elements to the concept. This paper argues for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge in the conceptualisation of climate-related distress. Māori notions of voice and place inform research approaches that are in solidarity with Indigenous voice to examine the impacts of climate degradation.
Exploring the associations of generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling: Empirical evidence from 34 cultures
This study examines the relationships between generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling - a community-based free-item sharing pro-environmental behaviour - along with the role of societal factors. Drawing on an online survey of 16,773 participants across 34 countries, the study finds that generalized trust and, unexpectedly, climate change conspiracy beliefs are both positively associated with freecycling participation.
The big issue: Breaking out of the climate bubble
Linda Aspey explores why the therapyprofessions are still so silent on climate change
Ecology, Psychoanalysis and Global Warming: Present and Future Traumas (Editorial)
Editorial introducing a special issue of Journal of Social Work Practice arising from a December 2018 Tavistock and Portman/CPA conference, exploring what psychoanalysis, philosophy, science and activism can contribute to understanding and communicating about ecological disaster and the eco-anxiety it provokes.
All upcoming events and training
Through the Door
A one day workshop for therapeutic practitioners on facing the climate and ecological crises. The workshop draws on traditional rites of passage to inspire new forms of being psychological, fit for the challenges of this uncertain time.
Hosting and facilitating a Climate Café Listening Circle (CCLC) training
Do you want to help build resilience in your community? Climate Cafe Listening Circle (CCLC) Training builds the confidence, skills, and peer community to facilitate your own circles. A structured programme over three sessions in closed cohorts, with ongoing supervision and support afterwards.
Climate café listening circle (run by Bristol Climate Café Collective)
A supportive group space where people can come together to share their feelings about the climate and ecological crises. Join us upstairs at the Steam Crane for a climate cafe listening circle - a space to share thoughts and feelings about the climate and nature crises. There are no special guests or speeches, and nobody gives advice. We just listen to each other and share our own experience. Sometimes it's hard to talk about these things because they can bring up a lot of difficult feelings - a climate cafe listening circle provides the opportunity to talk about these feelings and thoughts in a safe and supportive environment with two facilitators We meet once a month. It's free to attend and you can buy a drink at the bar to bring upstairs. Please arrive on time! This is in order to make the group a safe and comfortable space for talking about things that can feel difficult, so that we don't have interruptions once the session has begun. This climate cafe is offered in collaboration with the South Bristol Climate Hub.
My practice as an Integrative Transpersonal Therapist is shaped by my experience working on social justice and climate change around the world and understanding the connection between personal wellbeing and the wider systems we are all part of. From personal experience, and from my experience working with all kinds of people personally and professionally engaged in facing the climate crisis and other crises in the world, I know how painful it is and how much courage it takes to open our hearts and minds to what is happening. The cycles of despair, fear and anger as well as the numbness, apathy and disconnection it can plunge us into can feel absolutely debilitating. At the same time, I know what can really help us live with difficult truths, nourish and resource ourselves and I'm here to support people with that.
Alongside my 1:1 work as a therapist, I provide training and support on emotional burnout, post-traumatic stress, ecological distress & grief and related issues to organisations in the not-for-profit world, helping professions, activism and beyond.
I qualified as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor from Re-Vision in London and have worked both in private practice and for counselling services in Sussex and London. I have also trained in compassion-based therapy and social transformation with the Nalanda Institute in New York/Toronto and have spent several years educating myself and others at the intersections of social & environmental change and mental health and wellbeing. My first degree was in political science and I hold an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
I live in Brighton on the South Coast and can offer face-to-face support locally, as well as online support worldwide.
I am a Consultant Psychiatrist with 30+ years of experience, semi-retired age 60, still registered with the GMC / revalidated, undergoing clinical supervision, appraisal and indemnified. My main area of practice was old age psychiatry, though I was also accredited in general adult psychiatry, did a 1 year sabbatical in forensic psychiatry and during training did a placement in adolescent psychiatry. I also have 6 grown up children, so a fair bit of life experience with young adults! From the perspective of psychotherapy; as well as my psychiatry training and experience, I have completed training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and have clinical supervision with an Act therapist with a long track record of involvement with climate activism. I think this approach works well with the values underpinning climate distress in all its forms. I am a member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (and a member of their climate justice and action special interest group). With regard to climate and ecological crisis work, in my 50s I was able to develop a long standing interest in secular Buddhism and for the last 3-4 years have been attending weekly buddhist group meetings. I take a lead in our local eco-dharma group and am a member of the national equivalent with Triratna Earth sangha. I have actively engaged in Buddhafield events, including Green Earth Awakening and Joanna Macey’s Work that Reconnects. I am shortly to attend the week-long Routes to Resilience retreat. I have participated in Extinction Rebellion actions within the XR Buddhists and Healthcare groups. I am currently on an ‘Eco-sattva’ course run by One Earth Sangha. This includes a consideration of trauma and reviewing our own eco / climate emotional responses and blocks, building on from them with resilience.
The birth of XR triggered something within me that had sat unacknowledged for years. I joined, became a local regen coordinator, completed mindfulness, WTR & Active Hope trainings and held small climate cafe events and reflective spaces for people wishing to explore difficult things. My psychosynthesis counselling and Re-Vision psychotherapy trainings provided a further psychological frame for the primal wound arising from the loss of the once natural connection between human and non-human, and the painful impact on this, not the least on soul. I have since worked 1:1 with clients who wish to explore and transform such grief, stress, fear, anxiety, or anger or whatever arises for them and is similarly heavy and dragging them down.
I've been working in the field of mental health for many years now, first as a mental health support worker and then, for the last four years, as a counsellor and psychotherapist. I've been concerned about the climate crisis from a young age, and have experience participating in various environmental activist groups, attending protests and supporting direct action.
I'm an accredited member of the BACP, and have been trained in Transactional Analysis Counselling and Integrative Psychotherapy. I have recently joined the Climate Psychology Alliance and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to expand my therapeutic work into supporting others (as well as myself) through these extremely challenging times in whatever way I can.
I'm an integrative psychotherapist in private practice. I have been seeing clients for 23 years. I'm currently a joint head of the first year of the Masters Programme at the Minster Center where I teach and offer training supervision. I am deeply engaged with the Climate and Ecological Emergency CEE. In 2022 I published some research which explored how counsellors and psychotherapists think and feel about the CEE and how, or whether, their clients bring their concerns about the CEE. I designed and currently facilitate a training weekend at the Minster Centre for trainee counsellors and psychotherapists on eco-anxiety and environmental trauma. I'm deeply invested in decolonising counselling and psychotherapy training at the Minster Centre. I believe that Western history of colonialism and neo-colonialism, and our collective and unconscious compliancy with capitalism and neoliberalism have created the CEE.
I am a qualified and experienced psychotherapist and supervisor with a practice rooted in climate-aware and race-aware perspectives. I have experience working with climate-related anxiety with clients, particularly young adults, and am able to support you with existential issues about life's meaning and our place within nature and the universe. I work with a compassionate approach, focused on building resilience for facing and talking about difficult things. I am engaged in an ongoing process of Continuing Professional Education around climate and race, and am doing a Professional Doctorate with the University of Chester researching the experiences of those holding marginalised identities in therapy.
I coordinate CPA’s Therapeutic Support network, bringing together the practitioners who offer free support to people experiencing climate and ecological distress. Much of my role is about helping practitioners feel connected and supported as they accompany others through something that touches all of our lives. I’ve been a psychotherapist for more than 20 years. I’m also the founder of HSPconnect, a community created to help highly sensitive people find one another, build friendships and feel less alone. My work is shaped by Transactional Analysis, climate psychology, Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, rewilding, end-of-life work, and my ongoing learning around decolonisation and co-liberation. I’m interested in what helps people stay human, connected and able to act in difficult times. I believe grief, anger, love, humour and hope all need a place, alongside a more expansive sense of ourselves as participants in a complex, living system.
I am a nature connected coaching psychologist and a meditation and mindfulness practitioner. I invite to movement and connection with nature, as paths to mental health, wellbeing, sense making and connection; most of my sessions take place outdoors.
I also draw on existential wisdom and a systemic understanding of the world, to support people with climate anxiety and distress and to nurture sense making, aliveness and creativity.
I have been a Climate activist myself in a very small way, taking action in October 2021 and, after a Crown Court trial, being found guilty of Public Nuisance. My daughter and many of our friends have been in prison for much braver work than mine.
The work I have done with clients anxious about the climate is different from other work. The fear is real and appropriate and can’t be fixed by therapy. But my hope is that together we can find a way of living with this knowledge and flourishing anyway. I would like, respectfully, to offer what support I can to the brave people who have taken action and may be struggling with the emotional fallout.
I have been a member of CPA since 2016/2017, participated in two trainings "Through the Door", attended an AGM and other gatherings. Recently I have attended the symposium, organised by Judith Anderson and attend CPA peer supervision for facilitators of Climate Cafes. In Southampton I am facilitating regular Climate Cafes and am active in climate crisis activities in Southampton and South Hampshire. I am actively working with the Greening Campaign Hampshire with the remit to setting up Climate Cafes and recruiting and possibly training facilitators and co-facilitators. I have been actively campaigning against Southampton Airport Expansion and am a known advocate for the climate and environmental emergency in connection with psycho-physical health in the area. Generally, I do my private studies of the topic.
I have offered three free sessions through the TS to four climate activists in the past.
I have been a climate activist (before the term existed) since the 1980s.
Qualified in 2014 as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and worked since then in private practice. In 2019 completed a training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a body oriented approach used in working with trauma. During 2023 I will complete a training in Counselling Supervision.
I participated in Extinction Rebellion during 2019 and worked voluntarily with the CPA since that time. In 2016 I founded the Psychedelic Society of Brighton and have worked to raise awareness and in harm reduction around the use of these substances. My approach to Climate Psychology work is about honouring the work that activists and others are engaged in, while exploring how an individual may be suffering due to their involvement.
I also bring to this my own experience of having struggled psychologically in the past around my own climate activism. I am Treasurer of a co-housing group working to build an affordable eco-village.
I am an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice and a longstanding member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
My deep concern for the effects of human activity on our planet extends back many years to a time when I felt alone with my feelings and actions; now I gain solace from my involvement with various groups of like-minded people.
In addition to being a Climate Aware Therapeutic Support Practitioner with the CPA, I am a trained Climate Café facilitator and will soon have completed a separate Climate Aware Practitioner training delivered by Psychology for a Safe Climate.
In my private psychotherapy practice, I am increasingly exposed to clients’ anxiety about the the climate and ecological crisis, and I feel well placed to be able to help with the distressing and complex feelings that come up.
Through the free therapeutic support offered by the CPA, I am happy to be able to give my time and experience to support people whose responses to the climate, ecological and biodiversity crises might feel especially acute or overwhelming.
I've worked as a campaigner across human rights and environmental issues - so I know what it's like to be fighting for social and environmental injustice. I'm a certified coach who works with activists and I'm trained in Transactional Analysis which looks at us in relation to others, society and the eco system.
I have been a person-centred counsellor since 2001and continue to work in the NHS and private practice in Scotland. I've also worked in a university counselling programme in Edinburgh since and supervised other counsellors since 2010.
Before that I trained as an ecologist and have become increasingly concerned about both the evidence of climate change and the lack of awareness and response from our institutions and culture. I joined the XR protests and then realised my most useful offer to the movement would be to support other activists, so I also joined the CPA, where I've offered therapeutic support sessions and facilitate climate cafés. Through doing this I've realised there are both blindspots in my awareness and in the conventions of therapy so I undertook and completed Climate Aware Practitioner training via Psychology for a Safe Climate in Spring 2023.
My normal work frame is brief and so particularly suited to the kind of work we do in therapeutic support, and as an activist with my own experiences of burnout and re-engagement I have been able to work succinctly with others in the movement.
I have been interested and engaged in climate change and environmental issues since I was a kid. I am French, living in Sweden. Before becoming a therapist, I worked in NGOs, fairtrade, and in the social and solidarity economy sector where sustainability is a core value. Nowadays I am politically engaged in the little town I live in.
I am very interested in looking at how inner change and outer/societal change are connected. I am a gestalt therapist and a counsellor. I also work with nonviolent communication and Mindfulness.
I’m a qualified, trauma informed, Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and an accredited registrant member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).
I am from Kenya, a member of the BIPoC and BAME communities and a part of the African diaspora community here in the UK. My therapeutic support serves as a welcoming space to people from all walks of life! I support individuals experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological concerns including anxiety, stress, depression, grief, bereavement, trauma and abuse. My work also supports those experiencing eco-related distress or feelings of overwhelm due to the climate and ecological crisis. I aim to help those who have been directly or indirectly affected by the crisis or are committed to climate activism including people from minority and under-represented backgrounds.
I also offer counselling support to people from the BAME, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities and work with a psychologically informed understanding of intersectionality and the challenges that come from oppression and generational trauma. I aim to provide a safe, non-judgemental space to explore your thoughts and allow you to reach a place of self-understanding and healing, to break generational cycles and build resilience.
I have been providing pro bono sessions since 2019 for people suffering from climate/eco distress and for XR and JSO activists and other climate campaigners. My training as a body psychotherapist means I am on home ground with the expression of emotions. I am available to work face to face, on Zoom or by telephone or any mix of these. An initial short telephone call will be necessary before arranging sessions. Kindly e-mail me with your telephone number.
Through CPA I have trained to run Climate Cafes and run several monthly in person on the South Coast for the general public, and also occasionally for an NGO, Bioregional. Within my local XR Regen group I have co-facilitated regular Active Listening Circles. I have also trained to facilitate and delivered both The Work that Reconnects and Carbon Conversations. Details of these and other CEE workshops I can offer to organisations face to face are available on request.
I was a partner practitioner for 37 years at The Open Centre in London, providing individual therapy, theme workshops and ongoing groups. I am now semi-retired and committed to providing psychological support for dealing with the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
Tutor, mentor, guide, and ecotherapist, currently researching archaeotherapy for her PhD.
I am a Gestalt psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher with over 20 years experience of working with individuals and groups. I have a studio in woodland where I work in addition to speaking on the phone or online . I deeply value spending time in natural spaces and feel that our disconnection as part of nature has contributed to the climate and ecological crisis. I run mindfulness sessions in nature and have trained to hold climate cafes. I am a member of Extinction Rebellion and volunteer several hours weekly to support local and UK wide activities particularly around people and planet care. I feel I am ongoingly finding a way to be with, and respond to; the climate crisis, in my own life and would welcome the opportunity to support others .
I am interested in decolonizing therapy, our minds and our bodies as a radical form of activism. I am a reflective person who is not often seen on boards. I believe in the richness of our diversity both human and other than human in creating rich eco-systems. I want to cultivate generative spaces which allow for difference and support communicating and finding ways to relate and imagine different futures. I am part of the youth support team and decolonizing group and, I am about to complete the training in climate café facilitation. Outside of CPA, I am a child and adolescent psychotherapist, I also am involves in community actions. I wanted to get more involved in CPA, so I took the leap.
Hello! Please check the link below to see if I have availability and for further information. https://link.ukcptherapist.uk/CPA-Availability
I draw on emotion-based therapy as well as a range of other psychotherapeutic styles including Relational Transactional Analysis. Emotion-based therapy helps us uncover meaning and purpose in ways that logical thinking sometimes fails to achieve. In these periods of uncertainty, emotion can help guide us, allowing us to make sense of our experience and how we relate to others.
Additional to the support I provide through the CPA, I provide Therapeutic Climate Groups and coordinate emotional support for those involved in raising awareness relating to the Climate Crisis.
I am a Full Clinical Psychotherapist Member of UKCP and hold an MSc in TA Psychotherapy and L3 AEDP.
I am an experienced integrative counsellor/psychotherapist in private practice in North London. My longstanding concern about the precarious state of the ecology on our Earth and the part humanity plays in it has led me to focus on questions of life's meaning, purpose and belonging. I am fascinated by the process of healing – both individual and collective – which I see in terms of reconnecting. I am continuously exploring this subject through the medium of therapy, parenthood, mindful movement, art and other ways.
I am an experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor and family mediator, working in a variety of settings over 25 years. I was on this register since it started and had several activist clients, but removed myself for six months in 2023 as I took time out to travel and reassess my life's purpose and meaning in later life.
I became seriously concerned about climate chaos in 2009 and attended several workshops with Sue Weaver. My husband and I put on a joint travelling exhibition of writing and art work reflecting our concerns. I am a member of Friends of the Earth and Extinction Rebellion and have attended many demonstrations over the years. However, I do not want to go to prison but honour those people, particularly young people who put their futures on the line for the rest of us and our grandchildren. I feel the best role I can offer is in supporting them.
I have participated in CPA climate aware practitioner course PD1, 2 & 3 with PSC, the through the door workshop and climate cafe facilitation training. I also cohost climate cafes. I work online, in person indoor and outdoor and take a relational and ecological approach to counselling.
Jennifer Ramsay is a Gestalt Ecotherapist and professional storyteller.
Jennifer has her own private practice in Spain where she lives. She is also a creative group facilitator and offers unique workshops, weaving storytelling with her training in Art Therapy, Psychodrama and Ecotherapy.
Jennifer is also a facilitator of Active Hope and the Work that Reconnects. She holds regular Climate cafes and also Death cafes.
Her approach is client centered, nature based (when possible), creative and holistic. The rhythms of nature are very present as she incorporates the Celtic wheel of the year and the lunar cycles into her work.
She has a degree in Biological Sciences and she is part of the global network of Earth Storytellers and an active contributor to The Earth Stories Collection. She believes that the ancestral wisdom held within many ancient stories can help us face some of our current social and environmental issues.
I'm a person-centred, psychodynamic and neurodiversity-affirming art therapist in private practice. I qualified in 2021 and worked for three years as Art Therapist and Wellbeing Lead a community garden, so nature-based practice has always been central to my work. I now work both outside and inside and bring nature into my work whenever possible. Issues around climate anxiety and global matters come up with my clients regularly although my work is generally not solely focused on this. I work mostly with neurodivergent clients and am neurodivergent myself; anxiety and rumination often surfaces in my work and some of this relates to climate, nature and global issues. The art in art therapy can be a good way of regulating and exploring this in depth.
I am interested in research and evaluation. I co-authored a practice paper 'Safety in a person-centred, garden-based art therapy group for people with dementia' published in 2025 in the International Journal of Art Therapy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2024.2412548
I co-run a British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) special interest group - Nature-based practice and climate change. We facilitate regular online meetings which are often peer led reflective spaces in which we explore our feelings around climate change. I also work part-time as a lecturer on MA Art Psychotherapy at University of South Wales and have offered seminars on nature-connection and using nature-connection for self-care.
I'm a qualified and experienced psychotherapist, supervisor and group worker with particular interest in trauma and grief, including feelings related to climate and environmental issues in the wider world. I am currently undertaking a Permaculture Design Course and am exploring life at the intersection of depth psychotherapy, permaculture and eco-spirituality. I read avidly on these subjects and bring my own concerns around climate, social justice, oppression and environmental degradation to personal therapy, which I continue to attend.
As psychotherapist, counsellor, and researcher on climate psychology, my special interests are grief, loss, and trauma. I currently see clients presenting with climate and ecological crisis -related distress and bring rich life experience and training to my practice. When I sit with a client, I see a unique individual looking back at me. I approach the unfolding therapeutic relationship and the work to be done with a 'beginners mind'; open, respectful, non-judgemental, and compassionate.
I think being a Board member has made me a better member of CPA as a whole. I got interested in the therapeutic support offered to those suffering from eco anxiety and now offer the three 'no charge' sessions available, sometimes followed by longer term low cost therapy. I am currenly involved in Meeting Nature, a group relations conference to be held in a forest in the Netherlands in September. It is sponsored and supported by CPA. I co founded a Deep Adaptation Group 3 years ago and it remains an important community for me, to help with not turning away from difficult truths.
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.
I have worked in mental health for twenty years and hold a master in counselling as well as additional training in trauma work including emdr and rewind therapy. I have always loved nature and our wildlife and been interested in these issues. However, it was becoming a parent that really kicked me into awareness of how serious this is! I have spent the last fifteen years working with grief and trauma and feel these are both so entwined when we face climate change and all that is happening in our world right now.
I am both a psychotherapist and researcher deeply concerned about the ecological and climate crisis who tries to bring a nuanced approach to my work, integrating clinical cognitive behavioral skills with an eco and climate conscious approach and trauma-informed lens. I view climate emotions as precious signals and messengers of our sense of care for others and the world, that nonetheless can become in some cases debilitating and needing of understanding and extra support to get "unstuck". Feeling and holding space for our grief, learning to manage our anxiety, and reaching for resiliently cautious hope are my go-tos.
I am fully trained and licensed as a clinical psychologist (PhD) in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies, eco and climate-conscious therapy, and psychotraumatology. I also currently hold a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna (Italy) conducting research on climate anxiety, eco-concerns, environmental identity and sustainable behaviors. I have conducted workshops for university students on climate emotions and nature connection and climate psychology workshops for local institutes of continuing education for psychologists. I have also conducted climate cafès online for the local Italian population.
I am bilingual/bicultural, American and Italian, with an international background (third culture kid) with a personal understanding of the cultural aspects that shape our views and behaviors.
Through working on my own wounds I’ve come to passionately believe in the value of the therapeutic relationship as well as the healing power of nature. We are complex and diverse beings. Integrative means that I work organically drawing on a diversity of fields, including psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and Buddhist strands of psychoanalysis, as well as mindfulness and ecotherapy. My core training is in Other Centred Therapy (OCT) based on Buddhist psychology and Person Centred Therapy. I also have qualifications in psychodynamic counselling, bereavement counselling and ecotherapy.
With a twenty year background of higher education in the social sciences I am keenly aware of how power structures shape our lives, including our inner worlds. Beyond the social we are also part of the wider web of life. Ecotherapy expands the therapeutic space to include the wider world, in consciousness and by stepping outdoors. Walking and talking therapy brings movement and dynamism into the exploration. I work indoors and outdoors, whichever feels most comfortable to you at the time. I will listen deeply and compassionately, holding a confidential space for you to explore your feelings and thoughts on any issues you bring. I have had the privilege of working with clients who have experienced loss, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, or trauma and offer short and long-term therapy. I adhere to the ethical framework of the BACP and attend regular clinical supervision, ongoing professional development as well as my own therapy to ensure a high standard of working.
Having experienced my own distress and grief about the climate and biodiversity crisis, I care deeply about supporting others with these feelings and normalising them as a natural response to the magnitude and uncertainty of the crisis we're facing.
I'm a BACP Accredited Counsellor and have been in practice since 2008, offering integrative counselling, somatic trauma therapy , creative therapies and Eco-therapy. I've been counselling clients bringing climate related eco-distress for several years.
I've participated in an Active Hope course based on Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects and climate cafes, and done training in working with climate / ecological distress (with Caroline Hickman). I've also been involved with XR in the past.
In addition I've attended programmes and had 1-2-1 mentoring with the Animas Valley Institute and recently trained in facilitating Wilderness Rites of Passage work, based on the approach of the School of Lost Borders. I believe in order to have any chance of creating a regenerative and sustainable future, we need to act in attunement with the Earth and listen deeply to the wisdom of the Natural world.
As well as the ecological systems we're part of, I believe it's essential to include awareness of the cultural and social contexts we live in and the impact of these on our lived experience. I'm sensitive to differences in ethnicity, culture, age, religious / spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, ability, neuro-diversity and gender.
I'm blessed to live in rural Devon between the coast and the moor. I offer outdoor and indoor face-to-face sessions, online and phone sessions.
I was with the therapeutic support service previously and worked on Zoom with two women employed in local authority and upset/frustrated by local policies and the difficulty in being taken seriously. I also worked face to face with a student, also an activist, when I lived in London. I ran a support group for climate scientists at the Grantham Institute some years ago, having been recommnended to them for this role by CPA member Ro Randall.
I am a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS, and I offer cognitive-behavioural therapy and compassion-focussed therapy to adults with a range of difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, eating disorders, and physical health conditions. I am interested in helping those who are struggling with climate and ecological change, and conduct research in this area at Cardiff University.
I have received training from the Climate Psychology Alliance on working with climate/eco-distress, and training in eco-therapy. My personal passion for understanding and mitigating climate and ecological change also propelled me to complete a PhD in environmental psychology.
My approach to climate/eco-distress is grounded in the view that these are natural and understandable emotional responses. I believe that therapy serves as a valuable tool for developing new ways of understanding ourselves and our place in the world, and can foster a deeper understanding of our emotions as we navigate life’s complexities.
I am 63, so am a bit old to throw myself in front of a racehorse, as much as I’d like to. I have responsibilities to my psychotherapy clients and can’t risk arrest, so the better way to make my contribution is to offer therapeutic support.
As a psychotherapist, I am trained and experienced in addiction, alternative relationship dynamics (GSRD) and trauma.
As a former lawyer I will grasp legal processes facing anyone affected by bail, charge, trial, imprisonment or release, be it theirs or another's. However, to be clear, I cannot and will not give legal advice.
I have joined because I am increasingly concerned at the oppressive reactions of nation states, including the UK, to those who seek to protest about government inaction over global heating, species extinction and environmental destruction. On Coronation Day I was stopped and searched four times in four hours, just for wearing a Republic t-shirt. Even before the 2023 Public Order Act, the police misused their powers to detain people in order to inconvenience them as much as possible, without the necessary intent to charge them. During the pandemic they misjudged their responsibilities, especially at the Sarah Everard memorial. Since the Act, the right to protest has been eroded to the point of extinction and they have still more powers that will be used inappropriately. It is that Act that has provoked me to become an activist... because it’s time to stand up and be counted.
I am a counsellor and eco-therapist registered and accredited with the BACP working outside, online and on the phone.
I work collaboratively with clients and we start by agreeing on a therapeutic contract. We look at what is happening now for the client and what they are wanting to change. I work at the client's pace and offer a safe, contained and non-judgemental space. I adhere to the Ethical Framework as stated by the BACP and have regular supervision.
Over several years I have undertaken training in outdoor therapy and ecological practice. Additionally, I have attended courses on climate anxiety and eco-distress (e.g. BACP 2023) as well as 'Understanding Nature Connectedness' (University of Derby).
Away from my professional work I am actively involved in the local community including a Climate Cafe and a Space for Nature group. A recent focus has been facilitating several screenings of the Peoples Emergency Briefing with different groups throughout the area.
I’m a Thinking Environment coach for the Quiet Ones, exploring qualities of attention, embodied thinking (felt thinking and thoughtful feeling) and a slower pace when connection is needed. I offer more space, a slower pace - a sacred space for difficult emotions and I am especially passionate about supporting and offering a safe space to navigate and explore feelings of grief, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, despair and fear in response to our climate crisis and societal injustices. All feelings that need a place to belong, to be held respectfully and witnessed are graciously welcomed in this generative practice space and held with muscular hope.
I work with The Thinking Environment, this is practice that offers your thinking more grace of space to think, thinking that is embodied, present and moves at your pace. I offer the loyalty of my attention dedicated to nurturing your independent thinking, grounded in deep-care and relational-attunement, where you can feel connected, reconnect and re-balance - to find your ground and where you matter, profoundly.
As a neurodiverse SPS (Sensory Perception Sensitivity) introvert I’d especially love to work with you if you identify as an SPS / HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), as an empath, or an introvert, as neurodivergent or struggling to find a quiet place for your voice to be heard.
My coaching approach is primarily grounded in the Thinking Environment and is somatically resourced by my history as a movement practitioner, dancer and rebellious creative. My work and ethical landscape is informed by The Work That Reconnects, Theory U, ecopsychology and eco-anxiety, Buddhist psychology and a range of movement modalities that support deep enquiry and an exploration of different ways of being and the process of coming home to ourselves.
Mike Chatziapostolou | MEng CEng PGDip MBACP MIET
Mike is a BACP registered gestalt psychotherapist based in South Devon, working with clients in-person and online. Working with the climate and ecological crises is an organising principle of his professional life, and is what led him to train as a therapist.
Over the past eight years, Mike's work has been shaped by a sustained engagement with the climate and ecological emergency across multiple fields. He co-founded Spherics, a climate-tech company (later acquired as Sage Earth), where alongside his commercial role he held regular 1:1s with team members navigating the existential weight of working daily in the climate space. He developed a wellbeing framework drawing on gestalt principles and Malcolm Parlett's concept of Whole Intelligence to support the psychological health of those doing climate work from the inside.
In private practice, Mike has worked with clients presenting with climate grief, ecological anxiety and a pervasive sense of hopelessness about the future. His therapeutic approach draws heavily on experiential and somatic methods to bring movement, aliveness and new perspectives to the heaviness these experiences can carry.
His voluntary work at Penny Brohn Cancer Care, offering short-term therapeutic support to people facing serious illness, has deepened his capacity to work with existential distress in a time-limited model.
Mike has recently become CEO of Embercombe, an educational charity and rewilding site on Dartmoor whose mission centres on living in close relationship with nature and co-creating a regenerative future - an ethos that aligns closely with how he approaches this work.
Training:
• Gestalt Centre Wales - Gestalt Psychotherapy PGDip
• Karuna Institute - Core Process Foundation Training
I'm an Integrative and Wild Therapist working outdoors, indoors and online in London. I offer Therapeutic Support because I feel that is what I can usefully do at this time.
Being a Wild Therapist forms the ground of my work and how I am in the world. It is an invitation to step back into the web of life, to be in relationship with the trees, birds, spiders, earth, sun, wind and all other beings. Being with the devastation and destruction of our planet is always a part of that.
I co-facilitate climate circles - group spaces to share our eco-distress - in my local community, for activists and for therapists. I have participated in courses on climate psychology and experiential workshops on how to face the mess we are in.
Have a look on my website - www.miloupothast.com - for more information.
I live in rural France and steward an area of wild woodland. I have been engaged with ecopsychology for about 15 years and have taught and facilitated workshops addressing the complexities of our relationship with the other than human world and the environmental crisis. My practice is informed by, and specifically includes awareness of the collective as well as personal impacts of the world that we are living in.
I trained at the Karuna Institute in Devon in 2006 and worked as a psychotherapist in private practise since qualifying in 2009. I joined XR in 2018 and took a break from my therapy practise in 2021 to become a full time activist. I have held small groups /meetings/discussions within XR Camden. I competed a Work that Reconnects facilitator training in Feb 2024 and held a small group for activist in March. I intend making this part of my practise going forward. My climate related work focus primarily on seeing grief / depression /despair and apathy as appropriate coping mechanisms to welcome into being so that we can understand their root is in the longing for life. I have done trainings in Wild Women work, Ritual and animism which have all helped me personally to live within the story of what it is to be here now. In addition I did a leadership training with Jen Bemdell and the Deep Adaption network. I continue to work with his research and philosophy. With all its horrors and joys I love to find ways to bring this all as a resource, where appropriate.
I would prefer to work outdoors with clients and would discuss this with them beforehand.
I'm a psychotherapist and Mental Health Practitioner with over 20 years experience in working with people in distress. I have a special interest in Climate related distress and have delivered therapeutic seminars on the climate crisis and the ways in which distress may present. I have done a lot of reading around the issues from a therapeutic perspective, and also attended 'thinking spaces' from a group analysis perspective on the issues involved.
I hold a Msc degree in Gestalt psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute in London. Further I am a fully accredited clinical member and abide by the ethical standards of the UK council of psychotherapists (UKCP).
I have several years of clinical experience as a therapist and also work as a coach, at the intersection of coaching and therapy. I work with a wide range of common psychotherapeutic issues and my practice is Trauma- and Neurodiversity informed. I can offer sessions in English and German.
My special interest is distress related to climate change and biodiversity loss. My journey to become a therapist, was rooted in climate concern and began many years ago through a profound clash of my environmental values with the common practices within my former career in fashion design. I am a CPA member and trained in running climate cafés as well as staying informed in current climate psychology thinking through regular workshops and continued professional development. I further have personal experience as a volunteer street campaigner for Greenpeace.
As a Gestalt therapist, I take a holistic view of people’s issues, and tend to look at their thoughts, feelings and sensations as a whole while also considering how these are shaped by and embedded in their life-situation, their environment and dominant culture.
I'm an experienced psychotherapist and have been involved with CPA since joining a Through the Door workshop in 2019. I have completed the Climate Café Listening Circle Facilitation Training and hope to offer a climate café locally in the near future. I have become increasingly aware of the need to offer safe spaces in which people can express and explore their feelings and responses to the climate and ecological emergency.
My work is grounded in a deep respect for difference, diversity, and the many intersecting identities that influence how each of us moves through the world. I believe that healing and growth does not happen in isolation, but in relationship — with ourselves, with others, with our histories, and with the wider social and ecological systems we inhabit.
A central focus of my practice is transition in all its forms: life changes, identity shifts, loss, becoming, and the in-between spaces where old structures fall away before new ones have fully taken shape. These thresholds can feel uncertain, disorienting, and at times deeply painful, but they can also hold the possibility for meaning, growth, and transformation.
I have particular interest and experience in supporting people navigating experiences such as identity change, loss, matrescence, cultural displacement, intergenerational trauma, climate anxiety, and feelings of not fully belonging. I welcome those moving through periods of rupture, uncertainty, or reorientation — especially times when familiar roles, relationships, or ways of being no longer fit.
I work from a collapse-aware, intersectional, and trauma-informed perspective, offering a space that is compassionate, reflective, and attuned to both personal and wider systemic experience.
I'm a psychodynamic counsellor based in Walthamstow Village. I've been involved in climate activism, arrested, detained and convicted, so know how the system works. I stand in solidarity with all oppressed communities, especially those in peaceful resistance to the UK government.
I also understand that activism is not for everyone and am keen to support anyone struggling with overwhelming feelings of grief, anxiety, hopelessness and despair. Even without the climate crisis, life's not easy for a lot of people in this country and especially overseas. We're all just trying to do the best we can.
Sometimes, though, it's a little easier when you have someone you can talk to. Someone who's trained to listen with empathy and respect. Someone who will never judge you or dismiss you or minimise your concerns. Someone who will keep your confidence. If you'd like to talk to me, please don't be afraid to send me a message.
I am a UKCP accredited and BACP registered Psychotherapist with an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy, offering therapy online and in person. My integrative approach means I tailor therapy to each individual, recognising that every person's experiences, strengths and needs are unique.
Alongside supporting clients with anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, emotional regulation and relationship challenges, I have a growing specialist interest in the psychological impacts of climate change and our relationship with the natural world. As a PhD researcher in climate gerontology and public health, my work explores how climate change affects the health and wellbeing of older adults, helping to inform more compassionate and resilient approaches to care.
I also have a particular interest in ecotherapy and nature-based approaches to wellbeing. Where appropriate, I integrate an understanding of the restorative role of nature into my therapeutic work, supporting clients experiencing climate anxiety, ecological grief, or a desire to reconnect with the natural environment as part of their wellbeing.
Whatever brings you to therapy, I aim to provide a warm, collaborative and non-judgemental space where you can explore your experiences, build resilience and move towards meaningful and lasting change. I offer a free, no-obligation 10-minute introductory call so you can decide whether working together feels like the right fit.
I am trauma-informed, working predominantly with individuals facing challenging periods in their lives to help find balance, clarity and purpose, using an integrative approach, combining mindfulness, coaching, and therapeutic practices.
I've always worked in the non profit sector, and am particularly committed to supporting social and climate justice causes, and the incredible people driving them. I'm passionate about promoting wellbeing, and facilitating lasting positive behaviour change in my clients. I work on climate justice issues day to day as Marketing & Events Lead at JB, and am also UK Chapter Lead at Mindful Return, supporting mums to retain balance as they transition back to work after maternity leave.
I hold an Advanced Diploma in Mental Health & Wellbeing Coaching and my Advanced Counsellor & Psychotherapist Level 4, and completed the year long trauma-informed Professional Compassionate Inquiry® training. I'm trained to Climate Change Coaching Mastery level, with a PGDip in Sustainability and Adaptation Planning and an Arts Management Qualification in Social and Ecological Justice, Art & Activism. And I am in the middle of studying for my MSc in Integrative Counselling & Coaching.
If you have a challenge you’d like support with, please get in touch, I'd love to find a way to help you.
I've worked as integrative counsellor for over 25 years, mostly in Higher Education counselling staff and students. My work is BACP accredited and I now run The Garden, an outdoor therapy centre in Derbyshire where I support individuals and groups. I specialise in supporting women through life transitions and connecting with their purpose.
I've supported activists, scientists, students, academics, older women, therapists and parents to process their responses to the climate and ecological crisis. My approach is creative, practical, playful and soulful. I'm also trained in the Sesame approach to drama and movement therapy and experienced at designing and facilitating workshops.
I've had a life long interest and connection with the other than human world and have been involved in ecopsychology for over 10 years, attending conferences and workshops and writing journal articles.
I'm also a qualified supervisor, psychotherapy tutor and musician, writing and performing songs about the environment.
At The Garden I offer a chance to take time out, connect with the natural world, express sorrow or despair, talk things through, write, make a fire, get lost in the woods, be quiet, go for a walk, laugh, dance, sing, shout, dig a hole, plant a seed.....
I am an Integrative Arts Therapist accredited by the HCPC, UK working exclusively online with clients from all over the world. I and have successfully worked with individuals and groups in the Statutory and non Statutory Sector, Higher Education and in private settings. I aim to support people as we collectively respond to our thoughts and feelings around the Climate Crisis in a safe therapeutic listening space.
Hello. I'm Sophie. I am a creative and thoughtful therapist, working mainly outdoors in Brighton, UK. I offer an open and confidential space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. At your pace, and in a way that fits your unique needs.
I acknowledge the climate and ecological emergency and how many issues are intertwined with this: inclusion, colonialism, justice, intersectionality and historical trauma. Sensitivity. Neurodiversity. And a collective deep need for healing, grounding, and connection with the world around us.
I have a professional background of over 20 years in TV production and more recently, carbon literacy education. I qualified as a counsellor in 2022. I am an activist myself, and have thought deeply about the climate and ecological emergency and my personal response. I’d like to hear about yours.
I am a parent, and I enjoy being an active volunteer in my community. I love to connect with people from all walks of life and this helps me offer one to one counselling which is genuine, creative and open-minded.
My Therapeutic Approach
I am a registered member with the BACP and adhere to their Ethical Framework. My therapeutic counselling work is integrative, which means it draws from many theories including: humanistic, person-centred, psychodynamic, transactional analysis and gestalt. I’m also interested in bodywork and family constellations.
I will work with you to explore what you want from three free therapeutic support sessions. It’s a short time-frame, but can still be powerful and useful. It could be a simple space to gather your thoughts, room to look at key points in your past, or reflection on patterns in your present day. I can help you reflect on where you are right now, and plan what you’d like to do next.
: I started my interest 5 years ago through a workshop by Caroline Hickman, and have been on the mailing list of the CPA ever since; I have been a member of XR since 2018, am a member of XR Psychologists, and have done regen work here in Bristol; I have researched and written articles on the subject of young people’s distress, some of which are on my Academia account; more recently, working with the South West branch of the BPS I have taken part in, and run workshops of intergenerational concerns about climate change.
I am currently working with one client who is a JSO activist.
I am an integrative psychotherapist working in private practice. I also supervise trainee therapists as well as qualified practitioners.
I have been active in the climate protest movement since 2018. I was part of the XR Wellbeing team, coordinated support hubs during actions from 2019-2022 and delivered training to volunteers who wanted to join the Wellbeing team. I am less active now although still take part in some events bringing attention to the climate crisis. I attended a retreat at The Centre for Alternative Technology in 2019 which was based on the work of Joanna Macey and her book 'Active Hope'. I have attended grief workshops and also a Fresk event.
I am part of a group of XR grandparents and elders who offer support to each other and to younger activists. I am also a member of a small CPA group who meet monthly on zoom for peervision as climate aware therapists, and we also occasionally meet in person for walks in nature. I find that working in private practice I rarely hear clients mention climate as a source of stress and anxiety, and this surprisesme. However with the current increase in extreme weather events and the beginnings of more adequate media coverage I believe that this will change.
Working with those who already are fully aware of the climate crisis feels very important now. I want to offer support to climate activists and people suffering from the grief that comes with the realisation of the possibility that humans have wrought such terrible destruction on the earth that it may not sustain future life for most creatures now living on it.
My name is Susan, pronouns she/her. I am currently engaged in my counselling private practice and offering other voluntary work. In a past life, I was a teacher by profession.
My focus as a practitioner is on spirituality and identity with a non-pathologising approach to distress reactions and responses.
I am an Adlerian (ASIIP) qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor, and a pantheist. I can remember the mood, vigour and heartfelt hope of the sixties while growing up in the Cheshire countryside, some still remains but I witnessed the destruction/transformation of many loved sites.
ASIIP stands for Adlerian Society (UK) Institute for Individual Psychology where Individual is a representation, too, of indivisible aspects. People co-exist in relation to groups and others in multiple worlds. Life is holistic in nature. I notice how my views find allegiance with the group Therapy and Social Change where ‘Wild Therapist,’ Nick Totton argues that Justice is Indivisible.
Adlerian psychologists pay attention to early recollections believing they are significant to lifestyle choices. One of mine that is pertinent to this moment is the impact of a book introduced to me in my very early years, about a rabbit with wings that joined a group of wild rabbits to drive away big men and large machinery cutting down a wood.
I have been ‘Through the Door,’ a Climate Psychology Alliance workshop and returned with renewed commitment as an activist and glad to be able to join this directory.
I qualified as a Psychotherapist in 2000 and have worked for the NHS and various charities.
I now have a private psychotherapy practice in Fife, Scotland. I originally trained in Person - Centred Psychotherapy, but have recently added Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to my practice. As well as working as a Psychotherapist I am also an Environmental Scientist, and have been involved in the Transition Network and in Climate Activism for many years. I therefore have a special interest in Eco Anxiety.
Dramatherapist, senior therapist at Oasis Project in Brighton, writer, and imaginal ecologist.
Challenging a toxic system with minimal results is exhausting — and yet we feel we have to continue. Not because we're sure we'll succeed, but because it's the right thing to do.
Since 2016 I've worked with changemakers and activists to nurture resilience: how we keep moving through an unravelling world without losing our balance, our meaning, or ourselves. Much of that resilience comes from connection — to ourselves, to each other, and to the more-than-human world. In connection we find steadiness and support.
I've been part of the climate movement since 2019, with a particular love for regenerative culture. I'm a trauma-informed therapeutic counsellor, trained in Dr Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry — an embodied approach I draw on throughout my Resilience Counselling. My work is relational and somatic: sometimes we talk, sometimes we slow down and listen to what the body and emotions are carrying underneath the noise.
I also work with grief and empowerment practices from Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects, facilitating multi-day retreats that help climate-active people turn eco-anxiety and climate grief into something grounded and sustaining.
If you're carrying the weight of caring deeply about the world — burnout, grief, anxiety, or the quiet question of how to keep going — I'd be glad to walk alongside you. I work primarily in English and offer sessions online and in the Netherlands.
I am a transpersonal integrative counsellor and eco-therapist based in Brighton and I have worked in different roles within various statutory and third sector mental health services for over 15 years. For CPA, I offer therapeutic support to environmental activists and other groups of people experiencing distress on account of the climate, ecological and interrelated social crises and injustices. Having participated in various forms of activism myself, I am familiar with the kinds of struggles this can bring and the need to balance meaningful engagement with avoiding and healing from burn-out. I have worked with young people, including students needing to emotionally process very disturbing things they are learning about the state of our world through their academic courses. Many young people I see are angry about the world-problems being handed down to them deal with and are often worried or despairing about their futures. I've also worked with parents who are frightened for their children, and with people who feel overwhelmed by their deep care for other people and for the decimated and threatened other than human animals and plant life of the planet. I do not view issues of climate and ecological breakdown separately from issues of colonialism or it's racist legacies. In particular I hold the racial trauma faced by people of colour alongside climate and ecological grief and anxiety. My work is about supporting inter-linked environmental and social injustices and crises to be faced and responded to more openly, fully and freely, with deeper wisdom, greater courage and more care.