Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 304
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Category 2 :
Counselling - Catalogue No : 98511
- ISBN 13 : 9781032565606
- ISBN 10 : 1032565608
Table of Contents
Introduction
Judith Anderson, Tree Staunton, Jenny O’Gorman and Caroline Hickman
- Voice 1 T-Rex vs. TMX Cartoon
Emily Kelsall
Section One: The Trouble We’re In
Chapter 1. Facing Difficult Climate Truths
Peter Kalmus
- Voice 2 It’s hot as fuck and I need to rest my eyes
Fehinti Balogun
Chapter 2. The Mental Health and Emotional Impacts of Climate Breakdown: Insights from Climate Psychology
Judith Anderson and Rebecca Nestor
- Voice 3 The heartbreak of rivers barely flowing
Shelot Masithi
Chapter 3. Revisiting Ethics in the Context of Climate Breakdown
Jenny O’Gorman
- Voice 4 Timothy Morton – talking about climate agony, trauma and activism
Section Two: Systemic Understandings
Chapter 4. How Wide is the Field? Psychotherapy, Capitalism and the More Than Human World
Steffi Bednarek
Chapter 5. Climate Distress through the Lens of the Power Threat Meaning Framework
Gareth Morgan
- Voice 5 Disability and climate anxiety
Helen Leonard-Williams
Chapter 6. Deep Democracy: World Out There – World in Here
Iona Fredenburgh and Sue Milner
Chapter 7. Rehearsing Radical Care: Motherhood in a Climate Crisis
Celia Turley and Jo McAndrews
- Voice 6 Becoming an activist parent
Chloe Naldrett
Section Three: Becoming a Climate Aware Therapist
Chapter 8. Climate Aware Therapy with Children and Young People to Navigate the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Caroline Hickman
- Voice 7 Climate Anxiety has taught me this, so far …
T.M. Walshe
Chapter 9. Eco-anxiety in the Therapy Room: Affect, Defences and Implications for Practice
Trudi Macagnino
Chapter 10. Climate Silence in the Consulting Room: Waiting for Help to Come
Paula Conway
- Voice 8 Activist journey
Elouise M. Mayall
Chapter 11. ‘Climate Mania’
Garret Barnwell
Chapter 12. Climate Sorrow: Discerning Various Forms of Climate Grief and Responding to Them as a Therapist
Panu Pihkala
Chapter 13. Coming to Our Senses: Turning Towards the Body
Tree Staunton
- Voice 9 I want to fly
Frankie (pseudonym)
Section Four: The Ecological Self
Chapter 14. The Zone of Encounter in Therapy and Why It Matters Now
Kelvin Hall
Chapter 15. Rewilding Therapy
Nick Totton
-Voice 10 Saving our children by bringing back beavers
Eva Bishop
Chapter 16. Transforming Our Inner and Outer Landscapes
Leslie Davenport
Chapter 17. The Spiral of The Work that Reconnects
Chris Johnstone and Rosie Jones
- Voice 11 Wings of Hope
Will Baxter
Section Five: Community and Social Approaches
Chapter 18. Beyond the Ego and Towards Complexity through Social Dreaming
Julian Manley Wendy Hollway and Halina Pytlasinska
Chapter 19. ‘Ways of Being’ When Facing Difficult Truths: Exploring the Contribution of Climate Cafés to Climate Crisis Awareness
Gillian Broad
Chapter 20. The ‘Ticking Clock Thing’: Climate Trauma in Organisations
Rebecca Nestor
Chapter 21. Turning Towards the Tears of the World: Practices and Processes of Grief and Never-endings
Jo Hamilton
Chapter 22. The Psychological Work of Being with the Climate Crisis
Chris Robertson
- Voice 12 How does climate breakdown make me feel?
Maddie Budd

