Feeling our way through the Climate Crisis
Climate Emotions
How do you feel about Climate Change?
It’s understandable to feel overwhelmed, afraid, numb, or grief-stricken in response to what’s happening in the world. Climate change isn’t just an external crisis — it impacts our inner worlds too.
Whether you're experiencing anxiety, hopelessness, emotional shutdown, rage, or confusion about how to live in alignment with your values… These are human responses that show you are paying attention and care deeply about what’s happening to our home.
A Therapeutic Listening SpacE
Alongside therapy and coaching, I also offer a set of three free ‘Therapeutic Listening Spaces’ for people who are struggling with the emotional impact of living through the poly-crisis and consistently uncertain times.
This is not therapy, coaching, or a space focused on fixing or solving the climate crisis.
Instead, it is a gentle, reflective listening space for whatever feels present. People use this space to talk about grief, anxiety, numbness, anger, overwhelm, confusion, or simply the feeling that there is nowhere to bring these conversations in everyday life.
Sometimes what we need most is room to pause, feel, reflect, and be witnessed without judgement or pressure to have the ‘right’ response to these complex times.
These sessions are offered freely because I believe spaces like this need to exist.
Sessions are currently available online and are limited to three sessions per person.
Climate Listening Sessions can help people to:
Reflect on difficult feelings and share them safely
Explore values-based living and ethical tension
Make room for emotions such as grief, anger, hope, joy, and everything in between
Feel less alone in their emotional response to the state of the world
Cultivate greater steadiness, self-compassion, and emotional awareness
You do not need to ‘fix’ how you feel. Sometimes you simply need as safe space to talk freely with someone who shares your concerns and knows how to therapeutically hold space for your difficult thoughts and emotions.
who this is for?
You don’t need to be an activist or climate scientist to feel this way.
This space is for anyone who:
Feels frozen, anxious, or numb about the future
Is grieving the loss of ecosystems, species, or their sense of a predictable future
Is trying to live ethically but feels isolated, judged, or overwhelmed
Has moments of despair, fatigue, or spiritual disconnection
Wants to feel more emotionally and physically rooted in the face of uncertainty.
Resources
Here are a few thoughtful places to begin if you're looking to understand and navigate your emotional responses to the climate crisis more deeply.
WEBSITES:
Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA)
A network of psychologists and therapists exploring emotional responses to the climate crisis. Includes articles, reading lists, and events grounded in psychological insight.
The Work That Reconnects – Joanna Macy
A powerful body of practices and community tools for transforming eco-anxiety, despair, and grief into meaningful action.
Unthinkable
A creative hub for those grappling with climate and ecological realities. Offers soulful writing, conversation, and community.
Good Grief Network
A nonprofit offering a 10-step program to help individuals process eco-anxiety, build resilience, and turn grief into meaningful action, inspired by 12-step recovery models.
BOOKS:
Generation Dread – Britt Wray
A compassionate look at the mental health impact of climate change, weaving together science, storytelling, and personal reflection. Wray explores how we can stay emotionally grounded while facing ecological collapse.
All We Can Save – Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
A powerful anthology of essays, poetry, and stories by women at the forefront of the climate movement. This collection centres courage, creativity, and connection over despair, offering a deeply human response to the climate crisis.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
-Dr Jane Goodall