Climate Anxiety & Eco-Grief Counseling
What is Climate Anxiety?
Climate anxiety is the emotional distress or fear caused by the ongoing climate crisis. This distress is usually related to environmental future, such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ecosystem loss. People with climate anxiety may feel overwhelmed by the scale of the problem and uncertain about what lies ahead. Climate anxiety can include a broad range of emotions such as hopelessness, fear, guilt, shame, grief, loss, and helplessness.
How is Climate Anxiety Treated?
Climate-aware therapy provides a safe space for these feelings to be felt and voiced. This includes validation of your unique experience in becoming fully aware of climate and ecological destruction. Our climate-aware therapists can provide this safe space for expressing the negative outcomes that result from climate anxiety. Support surrounding fears about the future will be made to fit client's exact needs. Climate-aware therapy can help with participating in meaningful action towards the enviroment and providing a place for healing.
