Why therapy can help
If you have strong emotions about the climate crisis, it's because you care about the world around you. Those feelings aren't wrong, and you're not alone in them. But sometimes grief and worry about the future become too much and start affecting your ability to function, feel good, connect with others, and do the things that matter to you. Climate-aware therapy can help.
What we can help with
Anxiety and worry about the future
Grief over the loss of familiar places and landscapes
Anger, guilt, and hopelessness about the climate crisis
Feelings that make it hard to function, connect, or enjoy life
Finding resilience, meaning, and a way forward
Climate-Aware Therapy
Support for climate grief, anxiety and hope
The climate crisis and ecological damage are getting harder to ignore. More extreme weather, the loss of familiar landscapes, and dire projections about the future affect our physical lives and our mental health. A lot of adults, and young people in particular, now say they feel anxious, depressed, or hopeless about what's ahead.
Our approach
Climate-aware therapy starts from the idea that anxiety, grief, anger, and other intense emotions about climate change are a reasonable response to the crisis we're facing. In therapy, you can make space to process and move through those feelings, find your sources of resilience, and find meaning in your life.
Bodhi therapist Kate Maurer is a climate-aware therapist and a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. She has facilitated group events focused on sharing and processing climate emotions.
Take the first step
Text us at 217-731-4638 to set up a free consultation. To hear about upcoming events on climate distress and coping with climate change, subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social media.
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