therapy

Offer Therapeutic Support

Offering Climate Aware Therapeutic Support

Are you a trained and qualified psychological professional such as a counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist or coach who cares deeply about the climate and ecological crisis? Are you working on your own eco-related distress and would like to offer some of your time for free to help others manage theirs? Do you have the capacity for the deep listening, support and validation that is desperately needed?

CPA has a Directory of Therapeutic Support Practitioners who offer up to three free sessions. This is offered to anyone over the age of 18 who is experiencing eco-related distress, including that arising from eco-activism or work in the climate field. Many Practitioners on the Directory also offer this support to people who have been arrested or imprisoned for climate activism.

The aim of Climate Aware Therapeutic Support

  • Offering a listening and holding space for people to talk about their eco-related distress. This might include alienation from family and friends, talk of elective childlessness and suicidal ideation;
  • Validating people’s responses to the Climate emergency, whatever they might be;
  • Talking through people’s experience of climate activism and any related arrests/ imprisonment;
  • Helping people to understand complex individual and cultural responses as the crisis unfolds and we face into the unthinkable;
  • Collaborating with people to develop resilience, so that they can contribute to sustainable communities and prepare for change;
  • Signposting to other services or ongoing counselling.

How to join

To join the CPA Climate Aware Therapeutic Support Directory you must be a qualified and registered psychological professional with professional indemnity insurance. You must also be a member of the CPA.  Click here to join. You can either pay the full fee or, if this is uncomfortable for you or you are joining predominantly to join the Therapeutic Support Directory, you can opt to pay the reduced fee. We particularly welcome TS Practitioners from minority and under-represented backgrounds and if you identify as a person of colour we can, if you wish, put you in touch with the CPA Affinity Group for BIPoC members who meet monthly for support and to work on ideas for in-reach and outreach projects.

Once you are a CPA member, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and you will be sent a link to a joining form where you can fill in your practice details, areas of interest and a short bio, including a link to your website if you have one. This will be posted on the TS Directory and people will then be able to contact you directly.

Please note that, before joining, we will ask you to provide details of your engagement with your own process connected with the climate and ecological crisis and any relevant trainings undertaken. We actively encourage you to continue such engagement and training once you have joined the TS Directory. 

Once you have joined the TS Directory

You will be sent an introduction pack with helpful information and tips about what Therapeutic Support is in practice. Please note that CPA is not operating a counselling service or promoting individual practitioners. We simply operate a Directory of climate aware Practitioners who offer the free sessions of Therapeutic Support.  CPA does not guarantee that individual TS Practitioners will be contacted for Therapeutic Support. 

If you have any questions do This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Browse our website if you are new to CPA and want to know more.Check out our Podcasts and useful links and resources here and details of recent publications and research.

membership

Become a Member

We warmly welcome anyone interested in exploring the psychological aspects of the climate and ecological emergency to join us.

What does membership mean?

The Climate Psychology Alliance is a Community Benefit Society, so by signing up as a member you automatically become a co-owner of the organisation. Participation is key so we welcome active involvement and would love to hear what you would like to contribute - which can be as much or as little as you want.

Individual membership of £84.00 a year (pay forward rate*), £54.00 a year (standard rate), or £9.60 a year (reduced rate**) offers:

  • immediate access to our online community platform where you can browse groups, topics and events, connect with other members, explore what you might like to bring to CPA, and share your climate psychology journey;
  • access to regular members-only events, including a monthly Zoom meeting for new members the monthly Thinking Space meetings where members share emerging ideas and research with each other; and peer supervision meetings for those offering climate-aware therapeutic support and climate cafe listening circles;
  • an open invitation to join groups; for example we have a group of young members and a group focusing on work with young people; there is one for people who facilitate CPA’s climate cafe listening circles; one working on decolonising and antiracism; and one for people involved in producing CPA’s journal Explorations. You can also start your own group if you can’t find one that suits your interests or if you want to meet others who live near you or share aspects of your identity;
  • a monthly email update of CPA news and links to events relevant to climate psychology;
  • the right to take part in governance such as attending the monthly Board meetings and the weekly coordinating group meetings; and the right to vote at our AGM and stand for our Board.

*The pay forward rate (at £7 per month) is intended for those who feel able to help us support our offerings of climate cafe listening circles, training, peer supervision, and therapeutic support for those affected by the climate crisis. Given the numerous challenges that climate change brings to us all, we try to serve as many people as possible. We have limited funds and we make no profit or surplus, so with just a little extra support from you we can reach and help more people. We know that some potential members simply have no funds to spare so we don't expect it, but if you can afford to pay more, that's very much appreciated. 

**Our reduced rate is for those on low incomes; students or young people between 16 and 25; those who are joining in order to offer three free sessions (climatepsychologyalliance.org) of Therapeutic Support to people struggling with their feelings about the climate crisis.

We encourage you to have a look at Our Values before signing up.

Please note that membership is automatically renewed. However, you can cancel your membership at any time. If you would like us to do this for you, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

How to Join

Follow this link to request membership. You will be asked to provide your contact details and we will then send you an email inviting you to pay via our community platform. Payments are processed safely and securely via Stripe. Please look out for the email and check your spam folder if it does not arrive.

If you are based in North America you may wish to join our partner organisation CPA-NA. Follow this link.

We never share your details. (See our Privacy Policy.)

mailboxes

Subscribe

We’d love to keep in touch with you and invite you to be one of the 2400+ people who are currently on our monthly free mailing list.

Subscribers receive our monthly Climate Crisis Digest by email: reflective writing, on current climate crisis news and developments seen through a climate psychology lens. 

Tagged on to the Digest you will find a few events that may be of interest and CPA news.

We will occasionally send you invitations to specific events but we promise not to bombard you with email nor share your details. See our Privacy Policy.

Don’t forget you can also become a member. 

If you have any questions about joining the mailing list contact us.

flower

Donate

If you recognise the need for psychological understanding and support surrounding the climate and ecological crisis, and feel that we are doing valuable work, please consider contributing with a donation. You can make either a one-off or recurring donation which can be as little or as much as you are comfortable with. 

This may go towards subsidising places on our Climate Café training workshops, helping us to maintain our website or funding places on our workshops for young people - or any other costs associated with our work.

To donate click on the button below. Thank you.

Checkout

About Us

We are a diverse community of therapeutic practitioners, thinkers, researchers, artists and others. We believe that attending to the psychology and emotions of the climate and ecological crisis is at the heart of our work.

Let’s Connect

Get Involved

Digest

Stay up to date with all the latest news and events from CPA.