Understanding and Responding to the Climate and Ecological Emergency: The Role of the Psychotherapist

Retired psychoanalytic psychotherapist and member of The Guild of Psychotherapists. His 26 years of clinical experience included private practice and a part-time post for 19 years at an NHS clinic in a Devon psychiatric hospital. Here he taught and supervised time-limited psychodynamic practice for MRCPsych trainees. In 2009, he instigated, co-organized and chaired a conference at the University of the West of England titled The Psychological and Political Challenge of Facing Climate Change, staged by UWE's Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, in collaboration with Professor Paul Hoggett, Judith Anderson and others. This led to the formation of the Climate Psychology Alliance, of which he was a founding member. He has written extensively for CPA and in 2021 contributed a chapter on Climate Psychology in Deep Adaptation - Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos (editors Jem Bendell and Rupert Read).

Psychodynamic counsellor, writer and climate activist. They completed their training at Roehampton University and Birkbeck College, University of London, and qualified with an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2019, having obtained a BSc in Psychology and Counselling in 2009. They have worked in the charities and community-based counselling sector since 2017, currently as a psychodynamic counsellor of adults and adolescents with Gloucestershire Counselling Service. She also undertakes freelance organisational consulting work with small businesses. They are a registered member of the BACP and BPC. She also holds a role on the Organising Panel of the Birkbeck Counselling Association's monthly psychodynamic forum, and sits on the board of directors of the Climate Psychology Alliance. Their research interests include linking epistemic trust and OCD, and taking a systemic, psychosocial perspective to emotional development during a time of climate and ecological breakdown.

Based in Oxford, UK, and is an organiational consultant, facilitator and coach with a particular focus on supporting people and organizations with the emotional impacts of the climate and ecological crisis. She is a member of the board of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and contributes to the CPA's work running and training facilitators for climate cafes. Rebecca holds a Masters and a Professional Doctorate in Organisational Studies from the University of Essex/Tavistock Clinic, where her thesis explored the social defences in organizations that engage the public on climate change.

Doctor and now retired consultant psychiatrist. She trained as a Jungian analytical psychotherapist in the 1990s and still practices as a therapist and supervisor. With a long-standing interest in social justice, she chaired Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility for some years, then became involved in the founding group of Climate Psychology Alliance and has chaired the Board of Directors since 2020. She completed a Research MA in Psychoanalysis in 2004 on the topic of ‘Forgiveness in the Consulting Room’ and has published on the subject. She is passionate about the importance the psychological professions play in the face of the climate emergency.