CPA-NA In the News
There’s been a sharp, recent increase in media attention covering various aspects of climate psychology, especially covering climate anxiety. Here is a selection of articles featuring contributions from CPA-NA members.
New York Times
“Can Climate Cafes Help Ease the Anxiety of Planetary Crisis?”
With climate change, feeling is more powerful than knowing by Amy Harder featuring Laura Carter Robinson
September 6, 2023
7 Thoughtful Ways to Help You Address Climate Anxiety featuring Merritt Juliano on Brit + Co
September 2023
Anna Nieminen wrote a lovely book review for the paperback edition of Britt Wray’s book “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.”
Summer 2023
Holding Hope, Talking Together about the Inner Impacts of Climate Change, by Marina Schauffler
You'll Never Guess Who Wants You to Be Anxious About Climate Change | Opinion featuring Miranda Massie and Rebecca Weston
June 29, 2023
New York Therapists see surge in eco-anxiety as smoke fills skies, ‘ Every Client addresses it’, by Alaina Demopoulos, with Wendy Greenspun, Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, Hannah Nugent, The Guardian.
June 9, 2023
Untangling the double bind of carework in green motherhood: An ecofeminist developmental path forward by Allison Davis: Harvard Medicine.
May-June 2023
How Climate Change is Forcing Therapists to Mend their Field featuring Barbara Easterlin and Rebecca Weston
January 30, 2023
Diana Kapp, 1/10/2022
These apps and resources can help you manage your eco-anxiety—and take steps to tread more lightly on the planet.
Heather Higinbotham Davies, Science, 10/06/2021
Lise Van Susteren talks to the Boston Globe about the climate therapist directory.
Climate Therapist Directory in New Yorker, May 5, 2021 (click image to read full article)
Eco-anxiety & Postpartum Depression in Marie Claire, April 21, 2021
Recognizing Eco-Anxiety on Shondaland, January 17, 2020
CPA-NA Member Andrew Bryant LCSW interviewed by The Guardian on climate therapy
What are the Impacts of Concern about Climate Change on the Emotional Dimensions of Parents’ Mental Health? A Literature Review, by Elizabeth Bechard, Jennifer Silverstein, and Jennifer Walke, Journal of Health Care Communications.
September 2023
Eco anxiety is crippling Gen Z - and enriching ‘climate therapists’, featuring Leslie Davenport, New York Post, Rikki Schlott.
August 10, 2023
Climate Change is Changing How We Dream, featuring Martha Crawford and The Climate Dreams Project and Rebecca Weston (as well as one of Jenni Silverstein’s dreams!), Time Magazine, July 2023
Spirituality, Global Warming, and Grief: How Clergy Can Help Tackle Climate Anxiety, Rebecca Randall, Mother Jones, featuring Wendy Greenspun
June 18, 2023
Sitting and Moving with Climate Emotions: 3 process phases, 3 Music Dance Videos, Anna Nieminen
May 23, 2023
Therapist Uncensored podcast featuring Dr. Anna Graybeal: Let’s talk about it: A Pathway for Conversations & Meaningful Change on Climate (Episode 4, 205)
CPA-NA Member Ari Cook-Shonkoff, 1/8/2022
CPA-NA member, Leslie Davenport talks to Teen Vogue about climate anxiety.
Bloomberg Quicktake with Rebecca Weston on climate anxiety
Royal College of Psychiatrists Declare Climate & Ecological Emergency
On May 6, 2021, the Royal College of Psychiatrists recently declared a climate and ecological emergency due to the mounting mental health implications of our planetary crises now and in the near future. Given the need for climate-aware therapists across the globe to address the mental health implications, as well as provide the social and psychological support necessary to build the culture of care crucial for both planetary and human health, it has never been more important to use our strengths as climate-aware clinicians in our communities. If you haven't already done so, please consider signing the pledge to become a climate-aware therapist. In the coming weeks, the directory will be open to therapists and Climate Psychology Alliance members around the world. You can read the RCP's position statement here. You may also wish to take a look at the talk CPA UK founding member Sally Weintrobe gave to the RCP here.
Clearly Clinical Podcast:
Ariella Cook-Shonkoff & Tree Staunton on Climate Therapy, April 22, 2021
CPA-NA Board Member Lise Van Susteren interviewed in The New York Times on talking to children about the climate crisis.
Parenting & Climate Stress in NY Times, November 17, 2020
Stop Calling it “Climate Anxiety.” It’s Climate Dread, by Hannah Seo, featuring Barbara Easterlin.
August 28, 2023
Anna Graybeal, PhD, CGP, SEP | We Need to Talk! Group Therapy Can Help the Climate Crisis
April 2023
A Conversation with a Climate Therapist features Laura Carter Robinson who defines the nature and importance of climate therapy.
2023
How to Deal with All Your Climate Anxiety: Anyone else feeling sweaty and stressed? by Colleen Stinchcombe with Laura Carter Robinson and Amanda Feaver, in WonderMind
May 2023
Climate Anxiety: The existential threat posed by climate change is deeply troubling to many young people, by Charles Schmidt with Andrew Bryant and Elizabeth Pinksy, Harvard Medicine, Spring 2023
Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D. talks to Ryan Howes about confronting the climate crisis.
September/October 2022
Ariella Cook-Shonkoff, 8/2/2022
Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D., March 30, 2022
Emma Pattee, 1/1/2022
Nova Scotian CPA-NA Member Nancy Blair featured in CBC News, Amina Zafar, 11/6/2021
Dr. Lise Van Susteren speaks with PBS News Hour, November 19th 2021.
by Andrea Stanley, October 27, 2021
Anxious about the climate future? Seen a climate-aware therapist lately?
Along with the growing scope of climate change challenges and the growing numbers of climate-concerned people comes an expanding body of therapists ready to lend a hand.
July 23, 2021, Molly Peterson discusses climate anxiety in NYTimes with Merritt Juliano
August 9, 2021
IPA Off the Couch Podcast
CPA UK’s Sally Weintrobe on Exceptionalism & the Culture of Uncare, May 2, 2021
CPA-NA Board Member, Lise Van Susteren interviewed in The New York Times
Photo credit: Rebecca Weston, Missoula, Montana