Resources to Support
Processing Climate Emotions
If you are working through your feelings about climate change, are supporting someone you know, or are seeking resources to help a client, we have compiled this collection of resources for you.
If you’re looking for more organizations that provide support for processing emotions, you can also check out our climate psychology organizations page.
If you are seeking urgent support, or experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are not alone. Please access crisis resources here.
Online resources
Photo credit: Rebecca Weston
All We Can Save Project x Gen Dread: Resources for working with climate emotions
Climate Therapy Alliance (Pacific Northwest Chapter): Emotional Resilience toolkit for climate work
The Australian Climate and Health Alliance’s Mental Health Resources
Expressive Arts and Climate Change
New Jersey requires climate change education. A year in, here’s how it’s going, Seyma Bayram, NPR, Aug 2023
Earth is a Person, Susan Farist Butler, August 2023
Hope is the Things with Feathers: A Meditation about Empathy on a Dying World, Kenn Orphan, March 2023. A grief counselor compares his helplessness and grief felt at the loss of a bird with being present as a grief counselor to those in hospice and being present and grieving the loss of species.
Sitting and Moving with Climate Emotions: 3 process phases, 3, music dance videos, Embodied Climate Justice, Anna Nieminen
Climate Inspired Music
Sweet Honey in the Rock, Breaths
End of All Dances, Lola Guthrie
Breathe, Lola Guthrie
Infected, Znericus Music
My Nature, Singer Mali
Films
Everything wrong and nowhere to go, Sindha Agha’s video essay explores her work with climate therapist Leslie Davenport to seek relief from climate anxiety, fear, and an uncertain future.
Helpful Resources for Emotional Health and “Burn Out.”
Climate Burnout Report - Climate Critical Earth, Report Published 2023.
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy
Under The Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World by Kimberly Nicholas
Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times by Dr. Lise Van Susteren, MD, and Stacey Colino
We’re All Climate Hypocrites Now: How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement by Sami Grover
I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle., published in Vox, 2019, by Mary Annaise Heglar
Young people & climate emotions - solace and support
Photo Credit: Jessica Reeder / BlackRockSolar, Reno, Nevada
Young People’s Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon, Elizabeth Marks, The Lancet, September 2021
Warmth: Coming Of Age At The End Of Our World by Daniel Sherrell
All The Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal with Climate Change by Leslie Davenport
Young People and Climate Change, resources from Climate Psychology Alliance UK
How To Talk To Your Kids About Climate Change: Turning Angst Into Action by Harriet Shugarman
Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein with Rebecca Stettoff
The Parents' Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night's Sleep by Mary Democker
Talking (and Not Talking) About the Climate Emergency With My Kids, published in Yes! Magazine, by Sarah Lazarovic
Psychic Impacts of Chronic Climate-Change Stress
Coping with climate anxiety…and climate change itself, by Lisa Wolff, Aug 2023
Eco anxiety is crippling Gen Z -- and enriching ‘climate therapists’, New York Post, Rikki Schlott, Aug 2023
New York Therapists see surge in ec-anxiety as smoke fills skies, ‘ Every Client addresses it’, The Guardian, Alaina Demopoulos, June 2023
New York Therapists see surge in ec-anxiety as smoke fills skies, ‘ Every Client addresses it’, The Guardian, Alaina Demopoulos, June 2023
Excerpt on Britt Wray’s speech to the World Economic Forum on How to Live Meaningfully with Climate Anxiety, July 2023
The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief: A Narrative Review and a New Proposal, Sustainability, Panu Pihkala, Dec 2022
Psychotherapy and Climate
Eco-Emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change, Cianconi, Yale Journal of Biological Medicine, June 30, 2023
Paper offers summaries of various eco emotions, including eco-anxiety, ecological grief, climate worry, and climate trauma and recommends the need for social and community support to help cope.
How the Climate Crises is Changing Mental Healthcare (references many global organizations including CPA and climate cafes, as well the Resilience Project, Force of Nature, Mariwala Health Initiative, and Eco-Anxiety Africa Project):
Ecotherapy
What if Therapy Could Be a Walk in the Woods? Ecotherapy involves reconnecting with yourself and the natural world around you - while honoring the legacy of land and its caretakers, Dayne Evans, July 2023
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If you are seeking urgent support, or experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are not alone:
United States residents: Call the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources to find further resources.
Canadian residents: Call the Canada Suicide Prevention Service at 1-833-456-4566 in English, 1-866-277-3553 for Quebec residents/pour les résidents du Québec.