The authors will speak about their books, engage in conversation, and offer experiential exercise around resilience and climate change.
Join us to hear from Ari Cook Shonkoff and Thomas Doherty, mental health practitioners and authors of two recently released books on climate and mental health.
"Surviving Climate Anxiety: A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving" by Dr. Thomas Doherty
Meet the Authors
Ariella Cook-Shonkoff is a licensed psychotherapist and eco-art therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with children, teens, parents and adults to help cultivate authentic empowerment, heal and regulate in the face of distress, grief and trauma, rebuild relationships with the natural world, and connect with renewed creativity, hope and purpose.
Ariella previously served on the executive committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance North America, and currently co-chairs the Expressive Arts committee. Her writing has appeared in major outlets, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, and Salon. Visit her website, book website, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Thomas Doherty is a clinical and environmental psychologist based in Portland, Oregon, who has helped pioneer the fields of eco and climate therapy. His paper “The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change,” co-authored by Susan Clayton, has been cited over 1300 times. He was a President of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology, Founding Editor of the journal Ecopsychology, and founder and director of the Ecopsychology Certificate program at Lewis & Clark Graduate School. Thomas co-hosts the Climate Change and Happiness podcast with Finnish climate emotions scholar Panu Pihkala. Thomas’s book Surviving Climate Anxiety: A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving was published in October 2025. Visit his website.