Lindsay Reynolds (Dobson)

she/her
Counsellor

I am an experienced trauma and neurodivergence specialist therapist, with over twenty years’ experience supporting people through trauma, grief, overwhelm, uncertainty and experiences that can profoundly alter their sense of safety and of the future.

My work with climate-related distress includes supporting people experiencing climate and ecological anxiety, grief, fear for the future and the emotional impact of sustained engagement with the climate crisis. I am particularly interested in working with climate activists and others whose work, values or awareness bring them into repeated contact with ecological threat, injustice, loss and responsibility.

My background in trauma therapy informs my understanding of how prolonged exposure to threat, responsibility and powerlessness can affect both mind and body. I work with the emotional impact of witnessing harm while feeling unable to prevent or adequately respond to it, alongside the exhaustion that can arise from repeatedly carrying awareness, responsibility or advocacy.

I am trained in EMDR and work integratively, drawing on trauma-informed, relational and neurodivergence-affirming approaches. My wider professional work includes grief, complex trauma, chronic stress, moral distress and supporting people living within situations that cannot simply be “fixed” through individual coping strategies.

Issues I can help with

Eco-anxiety; climate and ecological grief; overwhelm; despair; fear for the future; anger; helplessness; numbness; burnout; activist exhaustion; moral distress; guilt and responsibility; isolation; feeling misunderstood by others; distress arising from climate-related work or activism; distress connected with environmental loss or threat; uncertainty; polycrisis-related distress; and the impact of repeatedly witnessing suffering or injustice.

My way of working

Warm, compassionate, calm and thoughtful. My approach is relational, integrative, trauma-informed and neurodivergence-affirming. I work reflectively and collaboratively, making space for difficult feelings without assuming that distress about the climate crisis is irrational or something that simply needs to be reduced.

Where helpful, I draw on EMDR and an understanding of nervous-system responses to threat, grief and prolonged responsibility. I aim to provide a space in which people can explore fear, grief, anger, conflict, hope, meaning and action without pressure to become either more optimistic or more accepting than feels authentic. I am comfortable working with complexity, uncertainty and situations where there may be no simple resolution.

Practice details

  • Professional Qualification
    Counsellor
  • Registering Organisation
    Ncs and bacp
  • Appointment Type
    Online
    Phone
  • Languages Spoken
    English
  • Who I work with
    For Activists, For Anyone affected by the climate crisis, For Arrestees, For Climate prisoners, For Climate professionals, For Disabled people, For LGBTQIA+, For Students
  • Practice Town/City
    Sk22
  • Geographical Area
    Other
  • Country
    North
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Practitioners on the CPA One-to-one Support Directory offer up to three free sessions to anyone aged 18 or over experiencing eco-related distress. CPA is not a counselling service and is not financially involved with individual practitioners. We simply connect people seeking support with climate-aware professionals.

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