Eco-Anxiety
A growing number of clients are experiencing distress about climate change, environmental collapse, and ecological uncertainty. This distress, better known as eco-anxiety, often shows up as panic, grief, anger, or numbness.
These articles help therapists identify and address eco-anxiety as a rational response to real threats. Clinicians will find language for exploring moral distress, fear, and activist burnout. Learn how to help clients stay emotionally engaged and connected–to others and to the planet–without tipping into helplessness or chronic overwhelm.
In the face of environmental anguish, a therapy icon turns to grassroots activism and finds hope, healing, and connection. Read more
Psychologist Elizabeth Allured is helping therapists and their clients contend with anxieties about the world’s climate crisis. Read more
It’s a truism that climate change has become an existential crisis. Can a new book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist help mitigate ecological despair? Read more
An anthropologist’s daughter, I came of age on Upolu, Samoa, living by a turquoise lagoon in an indigenous village and kinship group that formally adopted my... Read more
In the following interview, ecotherapist Patricia Hasbach explains how practitioners can address the rise in eco-anxiety and depression. Read more
Dire climate reports and grim environmental realities are generating a new kind of eco-anxiety. What can therapists do? Read more
In this video clip from his 2015 Networker Symposium Keynote address, "Healing and Hope in the Human Age," psychiatrist and bestselling author Dan Siegel... Read more
Mary Pipher discusses the effects of climate change on clients with anxiety and depression. Read more
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