Project: Working with eco-anxiety or climate distress in clinical practice

This project aims to explore how it feels for counsellors, psychotherapists, or practitioner psychologists to experience eco-anxiety or climate distress coming into their clinical work. 

How you can help

If you:

• are qualified and registered with either BACP or HCPC or UKCP
• work in the U.K.
• have experience of a client mentioning their climate concerns within your work together – either as part of more general concerns, or as a main presenting issue

Email Poppy to take part in a zoom interview, which will last no more than an hour, and you are invited to bring an object that represents your experience of the climate crisis, or working with eco-anxiety or climate distress.

Project focus

The climate crisis is recognised as the biggest threat to mental health in the coming century (Charlson et al., 2022). There is limited literature about how mental health professionals experience this personally when it has arisen in their clinical practice. 

Consequently, this study is looking to explore counsellor, psychotherapist, and practitioner psychologist experiences of working with eco-anxiety or climate distress.

Researchers

Poppy Gould, under the supervision of Dr. Holly Kahya of City, University of London.

If you would like more information please email Poppy.

Research Question

How do counsellors, psychotherapists, and practitioner psychologists make sense of the climate crisis in clinical practice?

Involvement

An interview at your convenience, over zoom, lasting under an hour. You are invited to bring an object that represents your own experience of the climate crisis or working with eco-anxiety or climate distress – this can be any kind of object!

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